Fully Alive
I'll send out an email version of my message later this week, but I thought I'd share one reflection blog-style. You can sign-up for the evotional here. It's free!
I preached from John 10:10 today. Jesus said:
The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.
Jesus came to bring life. And I love the adjective used to descirbe the kind of life Jesus came to bring. The word "abundantly" is the Greek word perissos and it's two-dimensional.
It means 1) super abundant in quantity and 2) superior in quality.
Fully Alive
This past weekend I took Parker snowboarding at a Ski resort in the Shenandoah Valley. It was an incredible experience on lots of levels. Great father/son time. Loved snowboarding down the hill at break-neck speeds. And it was a blast doing something I'd never done before. I'm not sure to how to describe it, but I had this thought on the ski lift: part of me comes alive when I do something I've never done before. That is part of living life to the fullest--experiencing new things.
For what it's worth, I've also found that part of me comes alive when I go somewhere I've never gone before. That is how I felt when we went to the Galapagos this past year. Part of me came alive--especially when we went swimming with sea lions!
We're all familiar with the Great Commission, but we tend to neglect the Genesis Commission in Genesis 1:28. God tells Adam to fill the earth and subdue it. I think it was an invitation to explore!
Can I share my theology of travel?
When you travel with this sense that you are exploring what God has created it turns travel into a spiritual experience. And adding stamps to your passport is good stewardship! I just happen to believe that God loves it when we enjoy the beauty of what He's created. And part of us comes alive in the process.
And I think what I'm describing is a microcosm of what we'll experience when we cross the spacetime continuum. When we step foot in heaven, we will come alive in ways that we never imagined as we do things and go places that are literally out of this world.
And the good news is that we don't have to wait till then!
I love what Saint Ireneus said: "The glory of God is a person fully alive."
I preached from John 10:10 today. Jesus said:
The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy. But I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly.
Jesus came to bring life. And I love the adjective used to descirbe the kind of life Jesus came to bring. The word "abundantly" is the Greek word perissos and it's two-dimensional.
It means 1) super abundant in quantity and 2) superior in quality.
Fully Alive
This past weekend I took Parker snowboarding at a Ski resort in the Shenandoah Valley. It was an incredible experience on lots of levels. Great father/son time. Loved snowboarding down the hill at break-neck speeds. And it was a blast doing something I'd never done before. I'm not sure to how to describe it, but I had this thought on the ski lift: part of me comes alive when I do something I've never done before. That is part of living life to the fullest--experiencing new things.
For what it's worth, I've also found that part of me comes alive when I go somewhere I've never gone before. That is how I felt when we went to the Galapagos this past year. Part of me came alive--especially when we went swimming with sea lions!
We're all familiar with the Great Commission, but we tend to neglect the Genesis Commission in Genesis 1:28. God tells Adam to fill the earth and subdue it. I think it was an invitation to explore!
Can I share my theology of travel?
When you travel with this sense that you are exploring what God has created it turns travel into a spiritual experience. And adding stamps to your passport is good stewardship! I just happen to believe that God loves it when we enjoy the beauty of what He's created. And part of us comes alive in the process.
And I think what I'm describing is a microcosm of what we'll experience when we cross the spacetime continuum. When we step foot in heaven, we will come alive in ways that we never imagined as we do things and go places that are literally out of this world.
And the good news is that we don't have to wait till then!
I love what Saint Ireneus said: "The glory of God is a person fully alive."
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