Resisting Sin: What's the Point?

Resisting Sin: What's the Point?

As humans, we all have a general sense to try to not do bad stuff. We all inherently know that we probably shouldn't lie, cheat, and steal, and it probably isn't a good idea to punch that guy who's talking really loudly on his phone on the bus. But as Christians, we are called to do more than just "not do bad stuff". Instead, we are called to be "holy and blameless before him", "flee from idolatry", and to "love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength".

Sounds impossible, right?

Parallel Pavillion

Hey, long time no see! It's been a while since I've last posted, I've basically moved in to the studio for the past 2 weeks, and had no life outside of that. But, it's what I signed up for, so I can't really complain! Anyway, thought I'd update you all on what I've been doing there!

We were given a project 2 weeks ago, which called for us to design a pavilion. For those of you who aren't in the architecture world, and therefore don't hear all of the often made-up vocabulary we throw around (like "horizontality"? In fact, not a word.), a pavilion is basically architecture-speak for "no actual purpose or function, other than to be a good little building, stand there, and look pretty". This seems like a great thing for a designer (no limitations, woohoo!), but in fact, this makes designing something incredibly difficult. So then what we did was, well, interesting.

PASSION: Part 3

Back to Passion. It's been like 2 weeks since PASSION: Part 2 about the cause we supported, and PASSION: Part 1 about the speakers. So what's left?

The worship.

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PASSION: Part 2

Passion 2012 was absolutely fantastic. You should definitely go next year. This is a continuation of my last post.

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PASSION: Part 1

Passion 2012 in Atlanta, GA was one of the most awesomest things ever and everyone should go. 

Pleasant Surprises

Enjoy the little things.

And cardio. Don't forget cardio.

We hear that all the time, and experience it all the time, but rarely recognize the joy that daily life brings us. I was reading a post on Marc and Angel Hack Life entitled "101 Short Stories that Will Leave You Smiling, Crying and Thinking". Story #21 goes like this:

"Today, while I was driving my grandfather to his doctor’s appointment, I complained about hitting 2 red lights in a row.  My grandfather chuckled and said, 'You always complain about the red lights, but you never celebrate the green ones.'"  

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Zdravstvuyte! (Hello in Russian!)

I just got bored saying "hi!" to an audience that doesn't audibly hear me, so I wanted to mix it up. Anyway, I've been working for a few weeks on a song! As I've been doing more and more research on worship music, what it means, and its significance, I've found that writing worship songs can (and sometimes should) be a significant part of a worship leader's responsibility. This is important because as a leader, you are serving those specific people whom you are leading, and so in my situation as a college student with the privilege of leading other college students in worship, I have a different perspective from people Chris Tomlin or Joel Houston. I absolutely love singing the songs that they've written, and there is so much Truth out there in the contemporary Christian music scene, and its cool to have the opportunity to contribute a little bit to that. And sure I might not be as talented as them and I'm fine with that. But heck, I won't know until I try, right? I've decided to share with the blogosphere some of the lyrics I've written, and I would love to hear back from people and get your thoughts/opinions! Also, please don't like steal them and claim them as your own or anything. That would be really lame.