Abram stood at the entrance to his tent and looked out over the land. This was his home, and God had told him to leave it. But how could he? He had followed his father here years ago, and they had built a life for themselves. They had built houses, gathered their flocks, tilled the ground. They had settled, and now God was telling him to go? What madness was this?
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Fact: Twitter is taking over the world. I know this because last week my sister, my mother, and one of my little brothers began tweeting. My little brother I can see, because he’s pretty techy, and my sister’s stylish and trendy, so I can understand her joining as well. But you know something’s ubiquitous when your mom joins up. (Love you, Mom!)Therefore, with almost all of my family members tweeting, I thought I would help them enter the world of Twitter wisely and purposefully by explaining some of the benefits and downfalls of Twitter. After six months of using it, I’ve learned why I should have joined up on day one, and also why I’m glad I didn’t. (more…)
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I’ve been reading through the New Testament lately, and as I’ve read the Gospels, I keep asking myself this question: Why didn’t Jesus organize a better marketing strategy?
He wants to leave a mark on the earth for centuries, but he doesn’t go to places that would help his message spread. He could have gone to Jerusalem, the epicenter of Israel, or to Rome for that matter, the epicenter of the known world at that time, and preached to audiences far beyond 5,000. He could have spoken to and changed the hearts of Herod, or Pilate, or even Caesar Augustus. He wants to impact the world, right? With that goal in mind, he could have set up a tour of speaking engagements that would have maximized exposure and put him before key people in politics.
And yet Jesus did none of that.
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MY HEART GASPED. My mind swirled, losing its equilibrium, and I felt fear, tangible fear, creep up my chest. I blinked, took a step back and leaned against the doorframe of the waiting room. “Wait, say that again.”
Robbin looked at me and said, “They tried, his pacemaker stopped, and they couldn’t bring him back.”
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I recently visited my older brother in Portland, OR, and he gave me a copy of the live CD recorded at the Generation Unleashed 2010 conference. One day, after returning to my home in Kansas City, I played the CD before work and listened to the song “Holding On”, by Bryan Bettis. The chorus says:
Holding on
Standing strong upon Your word
Holding on
All your promises are true
Jesse Koepke 