Uhhh...Where is your God?

Does anyone ever get the vibe that in some Christian traditions, they've got their theology so worked out, so rationalized, so explained, that any seeming tangible word or action of God today is seen by them as a heresy? Not to knock some of my friends, but I see this in a lot of Presbyterian circles. Sure, it's great to believe in Christ's atonement, and the working of the Holy Spirit, but what exactly do you believe He does for, with, and in you? Not what he did. Not the miracles performed thousands of years ago.

I remember being raised to avoid Gnostic heresies, who taught that the material world was nothing but an evil prison for the spiritual world. It now seems that now, people are leaning to an extreme anti-gnosticism, where they seem to place absolutely no value in a living, active spirit world, even if they claim to believe current work of the Holy Spirit.

Is it just that our definitions of God seem to be different, or are some of my friends atheists, without knowing it? Also, what about St. John of the Cross?

Honesty

is one thing that is really hard for me right now. 

Getting Better

When I went to my blog's page for the first time in a while to update it (gasp), I had to note with humor that my internet filter (K9) blocked my profile picture from showing up, for whatever reason. When I added the "Followers" gadget to my page, it was also blocked with this message:

 

http://ps.friendconnect.gmodules.com/ps/ifr?container=friendconnect... is blocked because it is currently categorized as: Social Networking

 

I guess this has something to do with cutting off things that lead us to sin, but sometimes, it gets damn annoying. 

Alex, I may be talking to you about this sometime soon.

Eventually I'll be one of the faithful...

...bloggers who do their thing regularly, but for now, I may settle for one post a year. So I found out about this band in the past couple days called Soul-Junk. 

1. They're a Christian band

2. They don't actually suck

3. They're quite prolific, starting in the early 90's as lo-fi alternative rock, progessing to experimental hip-hop, and now an avant mixture of both. 

4. They use verbatim Bible quotations for a lot of their lyrics. As in, their latest album's lyrics were Psalms 1-23. Today I downloaded their renditions of Exodus 1-16 off their blog, and they've also covered Genesis, some more of Psalms, and parts of Proverbs.

5. It's not a gimmick. The main guy does this cause he thinks that Jesus is cool, and Scripture is cool, and worship is cool, so he's setting it to music. And he's teaching his kids to worship through music. He has videos of it. It's pretty awesome.

6. I wish my parents let us form a family band and play worship songs in our basement.