Makes You Think

We are in a new teaching series at crossWinds called "Say What?" It's a look at some of the statements Jesus made. Yesterday we talked about Jesus call to Love Your Enemies (Luke 6:27-29, 35-36).

Today I received this picture via email. The people represented in the picture are (left to right) German Chancellor Angela Merkel; Tony Blair, England; Kofi A. Annan, UN; George Bush; Osama bin Laden; Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; and Jiang Zemin, former president of China. And that's Jesus on his knees with the basin.

This picture was orignally used to promote a conference on the character of God. The poster drew deep emotional responses.

So I was wondering... how does it make you feel? What does it make you think? Thumbs up or thumbs down?

How would your response change if Jesus wasn't in the picture... what if it was George Bush washing the feet?

Post your responses.

Believe!

For those of you who don't know... Believe is the name of our church's effort to raise the funds needed and to build a facility for our church. (crossWindschurch.com) We recently began construction.

Believe - is about trusting for two things. First that we as people who are in the church can and will give to be able to build. Secondly, that God will step into the process to guide us and provide for us.

So two stories... after about 20 inches of rain this past month and a half we were nervous about soils. In fact, if it weren't for the Minnesota winter (which happens almost every Nov - March) we probably would have delayed the bulldozers. Our excavator warned us that the soils were so wet that we might have to bring in up to a S100K of fill! That would be less than good for us.

However, after digging in we hit a vein of gold! Okay, not jewlery gold... sandy soil. Which is gold for compaction and building purposes. We just had soil compaction tests done yesterday and we have perfect results! The soil inspector was more than surprised. He's not seeing these kind of results in this area. GO GOD!

Second story: last night I received a phone call... out of the blue... it was from someone who knew of our building effort. He was calling to tell me that a $15K donation for the building is on its way!

All this to say: I'm believing!