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Re:Word Weekly - 2/3/2012 - Letter from a Freed Slave, A New Liturgy, Wild Geese

 

Re:Word is our weekly roundup for disciples who read, write, and create. Each story we present meets two requirements:

(1) Each is useful, enriching, or just plain fascinating.
(2) Each story must regard words or the Word. (Pun intended, but we may regret it.)

 

Stories from the Week

1. "To my old master" is a letter written from an emancipated slave to his former master. Aside from Paul's epistles, it is the single most powerful and inspiring letter I have ever read. You will not forget it. (Big tip of the hat to @leslielfields for alerting me to @LettersofNote.)

The Apostle Paul with the Good Book. From a Russian icon, via Wikimedia Commons.

 

2. "I need a new liturgy" says artist Blaine Hogan. Luckily, Aaron Niequist has created A New Liturgy! "A New Liturgy is our attempt to create holy space wherever we find ourselves," writes Niequist. "A moveable, sonic sanctuary. Released quarterly, each Liturgy is a 25 minute journey of music, prayer, scripture, and space that helps open us to The Almighty in any location, season, or emotion." (via @blainehogan)

3. "God has given Christianity a masculine feel," concludes John Piper. Rachel Held Evans (and many others) beg to differ. (via @rachelheldevans)

4. Marriage expert Sheila Wray Gregoire (@sheilagregoire) launched her "29 Days to Great Sex" blog series for married couples. Today's post: "Tip 3: Love the Skin You're In."

5. A college student cut technology from his life for 90 days. He learned a lot [video]. Tip of the hat to my coworker, Anne Zimmerman, who says,

I really enjoyed the notes in the interview about how he rekindled relationships and learned who real friends were... I also enjoyed what he wrote about play and feeling a sense of fulfillment when they were done ice skating ... as opposed to playing Angry Birds. 

6. Shauna Niequist (@sniequist) shares a striking poem. "You do not have to be good," reads the first line of Mary Oliver's poem, "Wild Geese." The poem is as crisp and bracing as a morning swim. I don't know if Oliver wrote it from a Christian worldview, but its significance for the Jesus-follower is striking. Read "Wild Geese" (Shauna Niequist is author of Bittersweet)

- Adam Forrest, Zondervan

 

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Feel Like God Is in Your Way? [Excerpt by Carol Kent]

 

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Have you ever felt stuck in a tough spot and thought, "God, why are you in my way?" I recommend this excerpt by Carol Kent, from her book Between a Rock and a Grace Place: Divine Surprises in the Tight Spots of Life.

 

Stuck in a Hard Place

It has now been more than a decade ago, right in the middle of my life, that I ran into a huge boulder — the likes of which I had never encountered on my lifelong walk with God. It could have been my stopping place — the point at which I lost not only some of my most cherished dreams but also my faith, my joy, my purpose, and my passion to go on. Instead, I found out that the Rock in my path represented not an obstacle but an opportunity to encounter the living God in surprising, sometimes astonishing ways.

 

God continues to transform my hard places into grace places.

As I have learned to press into the Rock in the middle of my hard places, I have discovered that I am actually in a position of safety, refuge, and grace. Year after year, God continues to transform my hard places into grace places where I discover surprising gifts of faith, mercy, contentment, praise, blessing, freedom, laughter, and adventure — tailor-made for me with his tender, loving care.

 

[Maybe] you feel caught in one of those tight spots of life where the experience you are facing is difficult, if not unbearable. I pray that you will come to realize that the pain of being in this place need not cause you to lose hope. On the contrary, being "stuck" between a rock and a hard place can lead to a transforming and liberating encounter with the only true Rock — God himself.
 

'Careful! I've put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, a stone you can't get around. But the stone is me! If you're looking for me, you'll find me on the way, not in the way.' Romans 9:33 MSG; see NIV

If you press into the Rock instead of trying to get around it, you will discover a surprise far better than a Christmas gift specially delivered to your doorstep. On the road that is your life right now, you can find a new way of thinking about your circumstances, as well as an astonishing experience of grace, tailor-made just for you. As you encounter God "on" the way, not "in" the way, you may come to know him as you never have before...

 

The liberating truth is this: When we are caught between a rock and a hard place, we are given the chance to see our human limitations and our desperate need of divine intervention. Then we are given a choice: Will we place ourselves in a posture of humility and complete dependence on God, or will we just "try harder" and stumble over what could be a transforming encounter with grace?

 

"See, I lay in Zion a stone that makes people stumble..." Photo by Esculapio. Kilimanjaro National Park, Tanzania, 1996.

 

Every day is an opportunity to unwrap more of ... God's grace. In my own hardest places I have encountered the kind of grace that enables me to praise God for eyes to see the pain of others, a heart of compassion to respond, and a determination to provide tangible help to those who are caught between a rock and a hard place of their own. I am discovering that God works best through broken people who know they do not have all the answers. He can use people who have exhausted their own resources and finally realize that negotiating the tight spots of life is not something they do by themselves...

 

The most important question, however, is: How will you respond to your circumstances? Will you withdraw from your friends and family members? Will you "ease" your way out of situations in which you hear people talk about issues of hope and faith? Or will you remain open to divine surprises in the tight spots of your life?

 

-Carol Kent

 

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- Adam Forrest, Zondervan

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2 Eyewitnesses Testify on Heavenly Worship [Excerpt by Rory Noland]

 

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Ever wondered what worship in heaven looks like? You're in luck. Author Rory Noland points us to eyewitness testimony in this excerpt from Worship on Earth as it is in Heaven: Exploring Worship as a Spiritual Discipline.

 

The Testimony of John

In eternity, people of all races, from different cultures, will stand together as one and worship our great God. John describes this beautiful tapestry of multi-ethnic worship in Revelation 7:9–10:

 

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" ...

 

The heavenly choir isn't divided into separate ethnic groups. John witnesses a glorious mix of people — a blur and blend of color and custom — standing side by side worshiping God.

John's vision of the heavenly throne. Note the four creatures circling the throne. [See image.] Image by Matthias Gerung, more info in footer.

 

The Four Creatures

Revelation 4:8 reveals [another] fascinating tidbit concerning the four living creatures around God's throne: "Day and night they never cease to say, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!'" (emphasis added). Because these four creatures live every minute in God's immediate presence, they never grow tired or bored of repeating the same thing over and over: "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!" A similar description can be found in Isaiah 6:1–3, written several hundred years earlier, thus confirming the fact that this worshipful scene occurs over and over again in heaven.

 

The Testimony of Isaiah

"In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to one another:

"Holy, holy, holy is the LORD Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory."

 

What The Testimony Means for Us

Thanks to the vivid firsthand accounts from John and Isaiah, we can close our eyes whenever we want and picture worship in heaven: the magnificent colors, the glorious voices, the bright light. Those stunningly intriguing four living creatures and the elders clothed in pure white falling down before the Lamb. Myriads of angels and that great multitude, stretched out as far as the eye can see, from every nation, tribe, and tongue — all with faces to the ground. The sheer beauty of it all takes my breath away.

 

God is inviting [us] to join in heaven's worship, to add [our voices] to the celestial choir.

Sometimes as I'm poring over a psalm and my heart is stirred by a certain attribute of God, I remember that at that very moment, worship in heaven is in full swing. It happens at church too. While singing along with God's people, I'll realize that the most glorious worship of all is resounding throughout heaven at the same time. In those moments, I sense the Lord inviting me to do more than just gaze heavenward. God is inviting me to join in heaven's worship, to add my voice to the celestial choir. In fact, Ephesians 2:6 states that, because of Christ, we are already “seated ... in the heavenly places."

 

So let's worship as if we're already there. Let's worship God with a mighty voice as if we're already with him in paradise.

- Rory Noland

Question: Are you surprised that the creatures worship God constantly?

A related personal confession: When I see human beings doing the same thing over and over again on earth -- reading, or skiing, woodcarving, anything --  then I think, "They must really enjoy that!" But when I hear about intelligent creatures doing the same thing over and over again in heaven, I think, "That sounds so boring."

Any thoughts on this? Leave your comments on this post.

- Adam Forrest, Zondervan

 

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"29 Days to Great Sex" Blog Series by Sheila Wray Gregoire

 

Today author Sheila Wray Gregoire launched her "29 Days to Great Sex" blog series. Over the next 28 days, Sheila will blog a new tip each day that will help married couples "make sex stupendous."

Sheila kicked off the series with her post, "Day 1: The Act of Marriage." Here's an excerpt:

Sex is the acting out of everything that marriage is. We become vulnerable with one another. We become naked with one another completely — and that means real intimacy, not just physical intimacy. We cherish each other. We protect each other. But we also have a ton of fun with each other! ... [One problem] is that when we do finally get married and commit to someone, we almost stop having sex. Or at least we have it rather infrequently. In surveys I took for my book, The Good Girl’s Guide to Great Sex, I found that 40% of couples made love less than once a week. We’re just not connecting that often. So the "act of marriage," that act that can be so wonderful, and so fun, and so significant, often isn't even happening. Or maybe for you it is happening, but it just doesn't feel that great. You can't figure out what all the fuss is about, and you're worried that it was created for everyone but you...

 

I recommend you read more of the post. Then subscribe to Sheila's blog to receive the rest of the series in your email inbox.

 

Visit Gregoire's blog and subscribe to receive her new posts.

 

Learn more about The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex: And You Thought Bad Girls Had all the Fun by Sheila Gregoire. (@sheilagregoire).

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- Adam Forrest, Zondervan

 

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Rebels for Positive Change [Excerpt by Ben Carson]

 

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(Excerpt by Ben Carson, from America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great. // It's sobering to realize some of Carson's encounters with racism are less than 45 years old. Perhaps the closeness of these events can also encourage us; while change is often slow, imagine the transformation we could see in our lifetimes if we become "rebels for positive change." - Adam Forrest, Zondervan)

Does America have its flaws? Absolutely... [But] one of America's most respected legacies is indeed that of rebelling for change.

 

My Road to Change

I grew up in inner-city Detroit and Boston at the tail end of one of [the] dark periods in America's history. Slavery had long been abolished, but widespread racism remained. The civil rights movement was on the verge of completely transforming the social landscape, but such change often comes slowly. And today, decades later, I can still pinpoint the moment when I came of age regarding racism in America.

 

Franklin Park is where Ben Carson "came of age regarding racism in America."

 

My brother and I were playing in Franklin Park in the Roxbury section of Boston when I wandered away alone under a bridge, where a group of older white boys approached me and began calling me names.

 

'Let's drown him in the lake.'

"Hey, boy, we don't allow your kind over here," one of them said. He looked at the others. "Let's drown him in the lake." I could tell they weren't just taunting me, trying to scare me. They were serious, and I turned and ran from there faster than I had ever run before in my life...

 

Constant Reminders

Growing up, we faced constant reminders of how we were less important than white people. Even some of those who claimed to be civil rights activists could be heard saying such things as, "He is so well educated and expresses himself so clearly that if you were talking to him on the telephone you would think he was white" ...

One day my uncle William was giving me a haircut in the kitchen while we watched the news on television when I saw white police unleashing ferocious dogs on groups of young black people and mowing them down with powerful water hoses. Even little children were being brutalized...

It wasn't just our inner-city neighborhood where racism flourished; I found it at school as well. [In] the eighth grade, for example ... I knew that my winning the [highest academic] award would have been an eye-opening experience for many people at Wilson Junior High School, since I was the only black student in the class... One of the other teachers was so upset about this that she literally chastised all the white students at the award ceremony in front of the entire school for allowing a black student to outperform them academically. The scene is depicted in the movie about my life, Gifted Hands, although in reality she ranted and raved a lot longer than the movie suggested...

 

 

January Blog Highlights: Top 7 Posts, other Posts of Note

 

January saw a flurry of posts on the blog, and I (Adam) will do my best to keep it up. Here are highlights from the month.  

 

Top 7 Posts from January

Ranked by reader traffic and feedback.

1. Does Fiction Lie? Thoughts on Truth & Christian Storytelling This post caused a bit of a stir. A reader submitted a question about whether fiction is valid for Christians, and the story-lover in blogger Adam Forrest was unleashed...

2. King Jesus, His Gospel, and Us - Coverage of N.T. Wright's provocative session at the January Series of Calvin College. Basically, Wright says, we're not listening to the whole song...

3. Small Group Videos Galore - Over 50 of our small group videos are on YouTube for free. Learn where to find them.

 

4. Plan B: My Secret Terra Cotta Army - Mark Hall (@MarkHallCC) tells the bizarre true story of Chinese emperor Qin, and how he's not so different from you and me. Excerpt from The Well.

5.  History-Making Prayer & the Legend of the Circle-Maker - Mark Batterson (@MarkBatterson) tells the legend of Honi, the circle-drawing, history-changing pray-er. Excerpt from The Circle Maker.

6. The Hitchhiker and the Blue Jeans (A Surprise Blessing) Author Andrea Palpant Dilley shares a hitch-hiking story she'll never forget. (I bet you won't, either.) Excerpt from Faith and Other Flat Tires.

7. Do Not Judge? Jesus on "Using a Good Measure"  Lois Tverberg (@LoisTverberg) on what Jesus really meant when he talked about judging others. Excerpt from her new book Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus.

10 More Posts of Note

1. Martin Luther King & Jeremiah the Prophet - The similarites between the prophet and MLK are considerable, as shown by Jeremiah experts Tremper Longman III and David E.

2. Sloth, aka "The Noonday Demon" An experiment in personifying sloth, so we may more easily detect it in ourselves and resist it.

3. Eight Surprising Ideas about Humility + Joe Louis's Punching Power A post inspired by the boxing champion and the writing of John Dickson (@johnpauldickson), whom I personally believe is on his way to becoming a heavyweight champion of biblical scholarship.

 

Do Not Judge? Jesus on Using a Good Measure [Excerpt by Lois Tverberg]

 

(Excerpt from Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life by Lois Tverberg.)

 

Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you." Mt 7:1 NIV

Few sayings of Jesus have caused more frustration than his words about judging. From everything else Jesus taught, we know Jesus wasn't telling us just to turn a blind eye to sin. So we struggle to find a way to sort out sin without actually calling it that, so that we won't sin by judging. Or we just file this line in the "impossible" category, like "love your enemy" — it sounds great and preaches well, but it's well nigh impossible to actually live out.

 

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But this teaching of Jesus grows much more applicable when we hear how it fits into the wider conversation going on among Jewish thinkers. From centuries before Jesus was born "judging" has been a topic of discussion, filtering down through the millennia to inform Jewish practice right up to today. Jesus was, in fact, building on some wise thinking and bringing it to a new level.

 

"Judging" in Jewish Thought

In about 120 BC, Yehoshua ben Perachia, one of the earliest rabbinic sages, shared the following wisdom: "Judge each person with the scales weighted in their favor." The saying evokes the imagery of the ancient marketplace, where a merchant measures out grain by pouring it into one pan of a hanging scale until it swings level with the weighted side. A friendly shopkeeper will heap a little extra on, letting the pans tilt past the balance point. The idea is that you should "weigh" the deeds of others on the side of generosity. Simply put, give others the benefit of the doubt...

 

Vintage balance scales in Spain. Image by L.Miguel Bugallo Sánchez, more info in footer.

 

Jesus employed a similar metaphor about judging: "A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you" (Luke 6:38). Jesus too says that we should let our scales of justice fall past the balance point, bestowing on others a little more than they deserve...

In almost every situation, a person can either look for a good or a bad motive behind other people's behavior. The way you choose to interpret others' motives has a profound effect on the way you react to them. Personally, I've found that when I make a habit of trying to "judge favorably," it transforms me into a kinder, more patient person. My attitude grows more loving when I assume the best instead of the worst about the people around me.

Jesus too says that we should let our scales of justice fall past the balance point, bestowing on others a little more than they deserve...

I'm still working on putting this into practice, but imagine the possibilities if I consistently looked at other people in the best possible light... When I heard someone insulting my faith, I might say, "That person must have had a bad experience with the church in order to make him feel that way."

 

 Truly, this small practice can change your entire outlook on life.

 

Question: What's your gut reaction to Jesus' words about judging others favorably?
(A) It's not fair!
(B) Jesus wasn't talking about the jerk I'm dealing with...
(C) It's a sobering lesson.
(D) I can vouch that this brings joy.
Leave your thoughts in a comment on this post.

 

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- Adam Forrest, Zondervan

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Joe Louis's Punching Power + 8 More Surprising Ideas about Humility

 

What people come to mind when you think about humility?

How about former Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, Joe Louis?

No? This true story from John Dickson's book Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership will change your mind:

 

Three young men hopped on a bus in Detroit in the 1930s and tried to pick a fight with a lone man sitting at the back of the vehicle. They insulted him. He didn't respond. They turned up the heat of the insults. He said nothing. Eventually, the stranger stood up. He was bigger than they had estimated from his seated position — much bigger. He reached into his pocket, handed them his business card and walked off the bus and then on his way. As the bus drove on the young men gathered around the card to read the words: Joe Louis. Boxer. They had just tried to pick a fight with the man who would be Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World from 1937 to 1949, the number one boxer of all time, according to the International Boxing Research Organization (second on the list is Muhammad Ali). Here is a man of immense power and skill, capable of defending his honour with a single, devastating blow. Yet, he chooses to forgo his status and hold his power for others — in this case, for some very fortunate young men...

Now, I'll admit I was surprised by some of Dickson's ideas in Humilitas. But the more I read, the more Dickson demonstrated that his case makes good logical & biblical sense.

 

Failure's Not Fatal: The Latest Chapter in God's Good News [Excerpt by David Garland]

 

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(Excerpt from NIV Application Commentary: Mark [eBook] by David E. Garland.)

 

God is a God of beginnings. The good news of Mark is that God begins again with the chosen people by sending his Son.

At the end of the Gospel ... things look far more gloomy. The women slink away from the empty tomb and are mute from fear [See Mark 16].

 

They thought the story was over. Instead they found an empty tomb, and a new part to play. See Mark 16.

Failure, denial, and fear are not the end of the story, however. When things seem to end, there is a new beginning. The gospel is good news because one can begin again.

 

God is the one who consistently makes something out of nothing.

One may wonder how these discredited disciples could ever emerge as leaders of a growing church and fulfill their mission, but we know that their failure was not fatal. Neither is ours. God is the one who consistently makes something out of nothing. What seems like the end, and a pathetic one at that, is only a new beginning. God will continue to work with and revive the people.

 

Mark makes it clear that "the church exists because of what God has done in Christ, not because of any outstanding abilities in its first members." The gospel proclaims that the one "who began a good work in [us] will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus" (Phil. 1:6)...

 

How will we continue the story?

Christianity is not a closed book, and Christian readers are the latest chapter in a continuing story of God's good news. The question for us is ... the same as it was for those early disciples, "Where do we go from here?" The next stage is up to us. How will we continue the story? Will we cower in fear or boldly proclaim the glad tidings of Jesus to the world?

 

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Question for Discussion: Did the first disciples have any advantages over us in sharing the gospel? Do we have any advantages over them? Leave your comments on this post.

- Adam Forrest, Zondervan

(Images & some styling above are web-exclusive features not included in the text of NIVAC Mark eBook. Image attribution: From "An Illustrated Commentary on the Gospel of Mark" by Phillip Medhurst. Section Z. the empty tomb. Mark 16:1-8. By Philip Devere [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons. This post does not represent the views of Zondervan or any of its representatives. The writer's personal opinions are shared only for information purposes. To receive new Zondervan Blog posts in your reader or email inbox, subscribe to Zondervan Blog.)

 

Small Group Videos Galore: Watch Over 50 Full Bible Study Sessions for Free

 

Have you ever watched a trailer for a movie, then watched the movie, only to realize the trailer collected all the best parts, or it told you nothing about the movie's real plot? While curriculum trailers aren't exactly like that, sometimes watching a two-minute trailer just won't tell you if you want to spend 4-12 weeks with the topic, or study, or author.

Watching the complete first session of the curriculum is a great indicator of what the rest of the sessions will be like. That's why we're making the first sessions of our video-based curriculum available for free on YouTube.

 

Today we have 50-plus full video sessions loaded on the playlist (zndr.vn/curriculumvideos). We will continue to add more until there's video available from every group study that Zondervan publishes.

Now you can watch full curriculum sessions from bestselling authors like...

• Andy Stanley (Watch "Really?" from Your Move)
• Anne Graham Lotz (Watch "He's Coming!" from Expecting to See Jesus)
• Bill Hybels (Watch "The Whisper-led Life" from The Power of a Whisper)
• Craig Groeschel (Watch "The God Kind of Weird" from WEIRD)
• Gary Thomas (Watch "God's Purpose of Marriage" from Sacred Marriage)
• Jim Cymbala (Watch "God's Heart for Us" from When God's People Pray)

 

• John Ortberg (Watch "Discovering the Spirit" from The Me I Want to Be)
  
• Mark Batterson (Watch "Becoming a Circle Maker" from The Circle Maker)
• Lysa TerKeurst (Watch "Becoming More than a Good Bible Study Girl...In My Heart"
• Margaret Feinberg (Watch "God Rising" from Pursuing God's Love)
• Max Lucado (Watch "When God's Story Becomes Yours" from God's Story, Your Story)
• and others

 

If you like what you see, you can visit Amazon, CBD.com, BN.com or your local retailer and get the DVD and Participant's Guides for yourself and your small group.

 

Tips for Small Group Members

1. Share the videos with your small group via Facebook to discuss what you might want to study.
2. Subscribe to the YouTube playlist (http://zndr.vn/curriculumvideos) because more videos are coming soon.
3. Most of all, enjoy!

 

- Chris Fann, Zondervan Curriculum Marketing

 

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