Illegal Corn Alcohol, Bad Coffee & a Table | Romans 10

So, it looks like I'm getting into the vlog game. Here's what Sunday night's sermon would have looked like if it were a vlog.

"What are you doing for Lent?"

On Monday I made my way around campus asking some of my students, "What are you doing for Lent?" Enjoy their responses. 

H/T - sabzi & the blue scholars

Ikea & the Transfiguration

A post very similar to what I preached @LCMontheHILL on Luke 9.

I feel a real connection with Peter. Now, I haven’t followed Jesus to the top of a mountain or seen his face transfigured. I haven’t seen Jesus checking in with Moses and Elijah. I haven’t heard the booming voice of God speaking directly to me from a cloud. But...I have been to Ikea. 

Peter, James and John follow Jesus up to the top of the mountain. As he’s praying, the face of the man whom they had dropped their nets to follow around the Galilean countryside was transfigured. Jesus’ face, something incredibly familiar, became something incredibly new and different. The familiar became strange. In the face of an itinerant preacher they saw the face of God. 

A trip to Ikea is not that different. The multi-story blue and yellow behemoth looms above the interstate like a summit. My search for cheap and stylish furniture fix is a journey through a prayer-like labyrinth where transfiguration awaits around each turn. Inside the maze, all the ‘stuff’ of my everyday life is seen in a completely new and exciting way. I’ve got a couch at home, but at Ikea it becomes a dagstorp. Tea kettles become ödmjuk’s and comforters become smörboll's. It’s my regular life, except more functional, stylish, and gleaming. It’s all the pieces of my life transfigured. 

A trip to Ikea evokes in many a desire to never leave. A man in New Jersey decided to live inside of an Ikea for a week. In Sweden they actually sell Ikea houses. You could buy one for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah!

New Rule: Love wins.

a sermon on Luke 4 from @LCMontheHILL

My television is under siege. Flipping through the channel guide Parking Wars, Whale Wars, Storage Wars, and Property Wars all fight for my attention. While it seems that producers have packaged every sort of conflict imaginable for my viewing pleasure, I’d like to pitch just one more…

Introducing...Neighbor Wars! Imagine a young professional couple in their twenties settling into life in an idyllic college town nestled against the mountains in Colorado. For this couple it’s early to bed and early to rise for a walk with their small, docile, and elderly dog. A big night involves dinner at a local restaurant, a stop for froyo, and bed by 10:30pm. 

Enter...the college students. Late one August night two students arrive with a pair of monster trucks and a trailer full of trouble from...California. Late night parties, an unleashed pit bull, and the opening of what appears to be a nocturnal auto mechanic shop has led to the worst and most entertaining type of conflict...passive aggressive warfare.