What startles you? Do you jump when you get scared? Well, Sky Ranch got a tuba for summer 2012...(I know, aren't you so excited for that?!) This is what happens when the Summer Camp Team gets a tuba and some time on their hands!
I was thankful to be on this side of the scheme...I get scared VERY easily! I did have the hiccups later that day and definitely thought about having Malcolm scare me to get rid of them, but that wasn't needed :)
Goodbye for now - we're going to go practice the tuba because we have no tuba skills.
A few of us from Sky Ranch had an amazing opportunity to travel to Atlanta, GA to kick off the New Year with some of our summer staff...as well as about 45,000 other people! In case you wondering what 45,000 people looks like here is a picture...
I couldn't even get them everyone in the picture, but yes, all of those people loving God and singing praises to Him about how great He is! The conference was at the Georgia Dome where crowds roar while football is played and touchdowns are scored, but this time 45,000 people were gathered for ONE person & ONE purpose: Jesus.
I wanted to post one of my favorite moments from the week. This is a recording of the live version of the song 'How Great Is Our God' and you've probably heard this song before, but this time people from at least 6 different nations sang together in their native language. It was such an amazing glimpse of what Heaven will be like!
I remember when I first heard this bit of immature atheisticreductio ad absurdum. I was in high school, and I didn't respond to it because the Nirvana-shirted, long-banged drama stud who said it didn't say it to me. He was laying it on his friend like it was theist's kryptonite.
My answer then, steeped in C.S. Lewis as I was, would have been along the lines of the nonsense of the question as framed. It is a rhetorical and hypothetical "gotcha" with no sincerity behind it, and in any event, it is sort of like asking, "Does the number nine smell red or yellow?"
My answer today is different. My answer today would not be to skewer the nature of the question but to inject its insincerity with the sincerity of God and all the weight of the gospel.
The truth is that Goddid make a weight so heavy he couldn't lift it. He did so not by building an immovable force -- we did that with our sin -- but by incarnating the frailty of humanity and willingly subjecting himself to the force. As one of us, yet still himself, he created the conundrum of the incarnate God, bearing a cross he both ordained yet could not carry by himself, becoming condemned in death and also victorious. And God was crushed according to the plan he himself projected from the foundation of the world.
So, can God make a rock so heavy even he can't lift it?
Yes. And he did. For three days only. And then he drop kicked it out of the mouth of the tomb.
Happy New Year! Can you believe it's 2012? The most exciting thing to me about entering into a new year is that my focus naturally turns to SUMMER. The countdown begins....and before we know it...it will be time for summer 2012!!!! I hope you are as excited as I am. I thought I would share this video with you that we often played last summer during Pow-Wow and meals!
Enjoy! Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam Bam!
Let the countdown begin...145 days until we open the gates to kick off summer 2012!
