Global Warming.  The globe is warming we win the debate.  But there’s more to the term Global Warming then simply a warming globe.  That’s why some people have gone to the even more unspecific term of climate change. When was the last time you didn’t feel the climate change.  That’s why some people insist on calling it Man-Made global warming.   There’s actually a number of understated usuptions with global warmings.

1. The earth mean tempreture is getting warmer as time goes by
2. The earth is getting warmer because of Man’s activities
3. The earth getting warmer is a bad thing or will be catastrophic
4. There is something we can do to change global warming

The same goes for the Gay debate.  Christians are always confusing the terms with others.  What Christians mean is the action what the world believes is the desire.  So when we say that God is opposed to the sin of homosexuality what people often hear and I think some want them to hear is that God is opposed to the person or the individual.  Love the sinner hate the sin is an entirely erroneous concept because the sin is the person.

The invisible has been made visible so that we might be transformed into that image that we see.

When the invisible is made visible we’re transformed into the image that we see.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Helen Keller
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A blog making the invisible visible.

Making the invisible visible.

Following God’s example by making the invisible visible.

When the word is made visible

We’re transformed into the image that we see.

When logos is made flesh were transformed into the image that we see.

The purpose of Logos Made Flesh is to make visible the invisible so that we may be transformed into the image that we see.

When we see the invisible we’re transformed by the vision that we see.

Pursuing a vision of the invisible God in order to be transformed by the image we see.

There’s no doubt about it.  Les Miserables, written by Victor Hugo is a powerful story of the God’s love displayed in the world of men.

1. The Prodigical brothers recast as Jean Val Jean and Javier

The Musical excelles where the book does not

1. Internal Monilogues

2. The Personal Relationship Jean Val Jean has with His Savior

3. The Emotion displayed through Internal Monilogues

4. Focus’ on the meat of the story

This isn’t a call to try new things.  I think we try new things every day.  Perhaps the most terrifying(?) place to be in our culture today is mediocre at something.  You either have to be great or to never do at all.  People are impatient with mediocre.  When I was in high school I liked to sing.  I still like to sing.  You can often find me singing something I’ve heard on the radio.  After driving to work and I have a song stuck in my head.  “Who sang that?”  So and So.  “Let’s keep it that way.”  Our culture doesn’t tolerate the mediocre.  If you’re not the best then please step aside for someone else.  Look at American Idol.  You either have to be the best or an epic failure to make it on that show.  The mediocre just never seem to get anywhere.  But all of us are mediocre at many different things that we absolutely love to do.  We put our best time and skills together to be great but our best will only rise to the level of medicoracy.  Perhaps its just context.  You might be the best in your family, among your friends in your school but take it to the wider world and often what your thought was great just isn’t good enough.  With the rise of mass media in the twentieth century our world has become a bigger place.  It used to be that the villiage, town or neigborhood in which you lived was all that really mattered.  Everyone sang.  Everyone had a talent that they contributed to their community.  Everyone played the piano for instance at the turn from the nineteenth to the twientieth century.  But with the rise of mass media more players were added to the pool and people found themselves competing personally with some truly amazing talent.  What’s you song compared to another.  What’s your story compared to another.  As people began to gravitate to these more professional people’s music than they became less and less patient with those who couldn’t compare.  The local musician who was certainly talented and gifted among the people he knew couldn’t match the talent of someone three thousand miles away.  And he or she lost out.  As the world has gotten bigger more and more people have lost out to the competition.  I find it funny that people who hate Wallmart because he replaces mom and pop shops say little about the professional pursuit of sports and music which tears down the foundations of people’s image and self worth (perhaps they do I just don’t know).  Eat your bread and stay silent while other people reap the rewards.  But the human heart is bursting with creativity and so much creativtity is being waisted by the imposition of the mass media.  Bigger and bigger schools only add to the feeling of being a cog in a giant machine that doesn’t care about the creativity that bursting within you. Buy local.  I’m a fan of the by local market because it allows others to do what they love with creativity and energy.  There’s something that needs to be said about the transition from amature to professional sports in the early twentieth century – aptly demonstrated in the movie Chariots of Fire.   Look at how the pursuit of the peak of human peformance is twisting people.  Barry Bonds, Lance Armstrong have altered there bodies and cheated the sport to find themselves in a place.

Here’s a number of ways that our gospel summary could be pulling apart at the gospel.

1.  Salvation and Discipleship

2. Having Jesus as savior and having Jesus as Lord

3. Receiving Jesus and participation in the Church

4. The Letters of Paul and the Gospels

5. Paul and Jesus

6. Jesus’ life, death and resurrection

7. Old Testament and New Testament

8. Law and Grace

9. Gospel Proclaimation and Social Gospel

10. Right and Left

11. Jew and Gentile