Comments for Worship on Your Face

Comment on Tears: the Beginning of Healing by gaiagardening

gaiagardening — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:35:17 +0000

Amen. Thank you, Jesus…
I am comforted in my trials, tribulations & tears.
Thank you, Pastor.

Comment on Reality Check by Steven

Steven — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:33:10 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Stan. Glad the post spoke to you. I checked out George Benson. Have to say that I was not that familiar with him, but Affirmation sounds like a good tune. And you are right – he can play. I think that somewhere music is tied into my identity as well and does help connect in a tangible way to God.

Comment on Reality Check by Stan Dotson

Stan Dotson — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 02:28:00 +0000

Hey Steven, love this reflection. It took me back to my early studies in jazz guitar, when I was really into George Benson, and wore out an lp learning to play his song, Affirmation. Check it out on youtube, you will get a kick from the 70s cultural look, but behind it all, he can play. All that is to say that somehow my affirmation as a child of God is tied up with music, and the music helps me on the days it is hard to feel beloved by God.

Comment on A Mighty Fortress Is Our God by bsfcl1

bsfcl1 — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:21:24 +0000

Thank you for sharing this great perspective on a beautiful and scriptural hymn.

Comment on Safety vs. Spontaneity by Liz

Liz — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:08:51 +0000

Steven , I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Elizabeth (Liz) Radmore. I met Jana Elliott a few weeks ago. I was/am completey impressed with what she is trying to accomplish~ that you & Michelle had started.
I was raised in Foster Care. I have been searching for years for a way to “give back” being an avid Motorcyclist..I was having a real tough time finding the right platform to gain the interest.
I can attest to the fact that Foster care is typically Not nice…& very uncomfortable for All involved ( I am understating here)..anyway if if wasn’t for the love of just ONE person, I would have not survived.My Foster Mother literally saved my life.
So i want to express my gratitude for what you began,,,what Jana is running with & what I HOPE to become a strong leader for/with.

Comment on Daring Communities of Truth by Steven

Steven — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:20:19 +0000

Thanks for your response Kim. While I do agree with you that in practicality, this would work better in a small group, I’m not trying to talk about practicality here. Rather, I am trying to say that this would be the ideal in Christ that we should be striving for as His body (the Church). We may not be able to get there because of the exact points that you bring up, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. (Even the quote from the Winner’s book suggests doing this in a small group rather than church-wide.)

Maybe a good start would be small groups of 2-3 people being rigorously honest with one another. I would rejoice to see what God could do with even that kind REAL community. The problem is, even small groups (or individual friendships) like that are the exception and not the rule these days. Blessings.

Comment on Daring Communities of Truth by Kim Huntley

Kim Huntley — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 18:06:54 +0000

It seems that the community you speak of is more easily found between two or three close friends, who can function as one anothers’ accountability partners in the areas of their lives in which they struggle, and can love one another despite sometimes painful honesty. The larger the group, the less detail we want to share, perhaps because we all struggle with the temptations inherent in knowing very private information about others, including the temptation to gossip, to judge, or to use others’ sins to rationalize our own, thus making humans our standard instead of Christ, who is THE standard.

God’s blessings to you and your family as you begin your ministry at Ecclesia.

Comment on The Wisdom of Stability (review) by Stan Dotson

Stan Dotson — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:54:12 +0000

Hey Steven, thanks for the review. I still need to get the book and I look forward to getting to know this author. I was thinking about the age-old tension humans have had between the settled community and the nomadic life. Wendell Berry versus Salman Rushdie (have you read his book of essays, Imaginary Homelands, which celebrate the virtues of the unsettled life?). I certainly resonate with the settled side of life, but I also understand that it is not the only way to experience community. I’m learning the tools of social networking, in hopes that they can actually be useful in my quest for the settled life. Whenever I feel technophobe feelings rising, lamenting how the new networking is liable to have a deleterious effect on community, I remember that they said the same thing about the printing press (people would hole up with a book instead of visiting with each other). Anyhow, thanks again for the post.

Comment on Poetic Hermeneutics by Stan Dotson

Stan Dotson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:01:48 +0000

Lovely! It reminds me of Pablo Neruda’s poem, Poesia, in which he describes what happened to him as a youth when he wrote his first poem. “Something ignited in my soul” he said. Verse is a powerful force. And I appreciate the way you call us to see the poetry of scripture.

Comment on Leadership Transparency by Stan Dotson

Stan Dotson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 10:58:55 +0000

Yes, I suspect this discomfort with the institutional role is shared by m any seminary trained folk. I certainly remember this being a lively conversation and challenge to the system of education when I was in Loulsville. I’m glad you have the perspective you do, and I will certainly pray for you to withstand the insitutional tempter while at Ecclesia. I like the “living transcript” image. When I was at Mars Hill, I did some curriculum development with faculty on the core humanities courses they required, and my contribution was to add “living text” to the list of required reading, with an explanation of how important it is to become literate in your own experience.