Weekend recap
Events of the past weekend...
Took advantage of my first uneventful Saturday morning in a while by sleeping it all away, waking up at 11. That afternoon, got together with a bunch of guys to go hiking at Coyote Hills Park off of 84. The day couldn't have been nicer - cool and sunny, and the park followed the bizarro Bay Area trend of being beautifully green in the "winter" and lifeless brown in the summer, so the hills were quite vibrant when set against the water from the Bay. Being with a bunch of guys, this led to the running joke of arriving and walking through the Shire, and segued into other geek topics like Star Wars, old school Nintendo and computer games, cartoons we grew up with like Voltron and Transformers, 80's shows ranging from Airwolf to Knight Rider to MacGuyver, and the speculation that Eon had been carried away by an eagle since we could never find him. We also did some impromptu rock climbing, which is always fun.
Afterwards, we headed to Mike P's new bachelor pad in Union City, had dinner at Fuddruckers (home of the name you have to be very careful about pronouncing, and tasty ostrich burgers), then hung out at the house. We did some jamming on acoustic and electric guitars, a keyboard, and some guitar cases set up as impromptu percussion instruments, had a couple of board games going, and watched Andy shoot zombies in the new Resident Evil game for Gamecube.
The sermon on Sunday was preached on the example of Peter from the last hours of Jesus' life, drawing lessons from the mistakes that he made. Some of the ideas that have stuck with me:
- in addition to boasting too much ("Even if everyone else leaves, I will never leave you") and praying too little ("Could you not keep watch for one hour?"), because Peter showed the characteristics of being impulsive and did not take the time to develop a reflective spirit, he acts too soon and draws his weapon when the soldiers come to arrest Jesus. There is a time to be passive (allow Jesus to be taken because this is God's plan) and a time to be active (in prayer), but instead Peter is wrongly active (drawing his sword) and wrongly passive (sleeping when he should be praying). This type of discernment can only be developed through much prayer and meditation spent with God, both privately and corporately, so that we can know His heart in as many situations as we find ourselves in.
- we are "practical atheists." Despite the lip service we pay among other churchgoers, how much of our daily lives can we honestly say is lived out in light of God's revelation of Himself to us?
After hoops in the afternoon, hung out with a bunch of people at Karen's place in the evening where we played Imaginiff and had a good laugh trying to figure out which female name John T would most approximate, among other questions.
My mom is a "24" fan. It's kind of funny hearing her shout at one of the characters on the TV, "Pick up the gun!"
I began listening to Caedmon's Call's latest album, Share the Well, today. If you're willing to have your musical horizons stretched a bit to include sounds from other cultures, I highly recommend this album. Much of it was written and recorded as the band went on multiple short-term missions trips over the past year to India, Brazil, and Ecuador, and the songs tell stories of people that they met - and in some cases, even features the percussion, cultural instruments, and native songs of the indigenous peoples, deftly mixed together with their own guitars and lyrics. It does a better job than any music I've ever heard of melding the commonality of human experience across all spectrums and cultures. Buy it, you won't regret it. Check out this review for a more in-depth look at the background and the lyrical/musical makeup of the album.
If I were a famous leader, I would be a small, bald-headed peacemaker:
Events of the past weekend...
Took advantage of my first uneventful Saturday morning in a while by sleeping it all away, waking up at 11. That afternoon, got together with a bunch of guys to go hiking at Coyote Hills Park off of 84. The day couldn't have been nicer - cool and sunny, and the park followed the bizarro Bay Area trend of being beautifully green in the "winter" and lifeless brown in the summer, so the hills were quite vibrant when set against the water from the Bay. Being with a bunch of guys, this led to the running joke of arriving and walking through the Shire, and segued into other geek topics like Star Wars, old school Nintendo and computer games, cartoons we grew up with like Voltron and Transformers, 80's shows ranging from Airwolf to Knight Rider to MacGuyver, and the speculation that Eon had been carried away by an eagle since we could never find him. We also did some impromptu rock climbing, which is always fun.
Afterwards, we headed to Mike P's new bachelor pad in Union City, had dinner at Fuddruckers (home of the name you have to be very careful about pronouncing, and tasty ostrich burgers), then hung out at the house. We did some jamming on acoustic and electric guitars, a keyboard, and some guitar cases set up as impromptu percussion instruments, had a couple of board games going, and watched Andy shoot zombies in the new Resident Evil game for Gamecube.
The sermon on Sunday was preached on the example of Peter from the last hours of Jesus' life, drawing lessons from the mistakes that he made. Some of the ideas that have stuck with me:
- in addition to boasting too much ("Even if everyone else leaves, I will never leave you") and praying too little ("Could you not keep watch for one hour?"), because Peter showed the characteristics of being impulsive and did not take the time to develop a reflective spirit, he acts too soon and draws his weapon when the soldiers come to arrest Jesus. There is a time to be passive (allow Jesus to be taken because this is God's plan) and a time to be active (in prayer), but instead Peter is wrongly active (drawing his sword) and wrongly passive (sleeping when he should be praying). This type of discernment can only be developed through much prayer and meditation spent with God, both privately and corporately, so that we can know His heart in as many situations as we find ourselves in.
- we are "practical atheists." Despite the lip service we pay among other churchgoers, how much of our daily lives can we honestly say is lived out in light of God's revelation of Himself to us?
After hoops in the afternoon, hung out with a bunch of people at Karen's place in the evening where we played Imaginiff and had a good laugh trying to figure out which female name John T would most approximate, among other questions.
My mom is a "24" fan. It's kind of funny hearing her shout at one of the characters on the TV, "Pick up the gun!"
I began listening to Caedmon's Call's latest album, Share the Well, today. If you're willing to have your musical horizons stretched a bit to include sounds from other cultures, I highly recommend this album. Much of it was written and recorded as the band went on multiple short-term missions trips over the past year to India, Brazil, and Ecuador, and the songs tell stories of people that they met - and in some cases, even features the percussion, cultural instruments, and native songs of the indigenous peoples, deftly mixed together with their own guitars and lyrics. It does a better job than any music I've ever heard of melding the commonality of human experience across all spectrums and cultures. Buy it, you won't regret it. Check out this review for a more in-depth look at the background and the lyrical/musical makeup of the album.
If I were a famous leader, I would be a small, bald-headed peacemaker:
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