I pulled a muscle in my neck. It hurts :( OK, my blog posts have not been very frequent. I have a bit of a dilemma. It seems I need to have 2 blogs. One that is private and one that is public. The tendency is to share too much, and I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve. Go Othello. I end up writing things that I think should probably not become public domain.

7 Years ago, God told me He was going to teach me 2 things. The first would be science in relation to creation/evolution/intelligent design. He sure has done that. Although I am not speaking or lecturing on intelligent design, I very easily could. My grasp of the ID movement and Neo-Darwinian Evolution/methodolical materialism is pretty good. May I be allowed to say 'vast' even? The collapse of NDE as the majority-held theory is imminent. What God spoke has come to pass, at least in part. Just not sure why I learned it all and continue to do so :) He knows!

The 2nd thing God told me He would teach me, was the Jewish roots of my faith. Now, God told me this 7 years ago, so it's been a little disappointing that nothing has happened along these lines, even when I have tried to pursue things. 7 months ago this all changed when I was introduced to Rob Bell. More on Rob Bell in another blog, he deserves one dedicated to just himself, but for this post, let it be known that Rob has been taking the Church not back a few hundred years to the era of the reformers and revivalists, but 2000 years to the time of Christ and way back to Genesis, and bringing the Jewish/Hebraic meaning of scripture to life like I have never seen. This has been highly interesting. Already I am discovering that many of the things we believe in the Western Church, are, well, just plain wrong. For instance, just this very morning on my video iPod, I was watching Greg Laurie preaching about the Gospel message. What it is, and what it is not, sort of thing. Greg used the passage where Jesus talks about His Yoke being easy, His burden light, and told us that Jesus is talking about the yoke that went over the neck and shoulders of an ox in order to steer it while it pulled the plow. He then told us that Jesus is asking for the right to steer our lives, that Jesus wants us to wear His yoke just like the oxen. How many times have we heard that very same thing in Church? We hear it all the time! It's not true though. The yoke Jesus is talking about has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what Greg so strongly emphasized. Don't worry Greg, I still love ya and will leave your podcast up on God's iPod :)

I won't reveal the actual meaning of this passage to you on my blog. If you want to know yourself, I challenge you to buy the nooma video called Dust from nooma.com. It will be well worth the effort, and you'll learn a lot more than just the yoke of Christ.

Over the next several months, probably years, I am going to add more teaching to my blog. I feel that I am discovering this thing called Christianity for the first time. I am being drawn so much closer to God, and my revelation of Him is just growing and growing. This is not something we have to be fearful of, that is, starting again in our walk with God. Rather it is something to be embraced. We in the Western Church have for too long embraced a plastic commercialized brand of faith, something that is completely foreign to our Jewish roots. As I make these new discoveries, I plan to share them with you. I do not for a split second do this because I know more than you. Rather, I am so excited about what I am learning, seeing scripture suddenly come to life because now I am beginning to understand what the writer was actually thinking when he wrote it. Logos becomes rhema.

Question: Are YOU prepared to let go of your current beliefs and concepts of God and start anew with a fresh perspective of scripture? Will you join me as I make fresh-to-me discoveries of God's word?