Comments on: Christmas Series: 03 The Beginning of Great Things http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/ A community of Faith, Hope and Love Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Ray Hardee http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-51 Ray Hardee Wed, 28 Dec 2005 03:28:26 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-51 Rare. You take that which has come to sound commonplace and make it extraordinary. God's passion is flowing through you. Stay Motivated... For The Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace! Thanks especially for your authenticity. Rare. You take that which has come to sound commonplace and make it extraordinary. God’s passion is flowing through you. Stay Motivated…

For The Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace!

Thanks especially for your authenticity.

]]> By: eric http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-50 eric Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:33:44 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-50 Due to the world travels of those who put the podcasts together each week. Our podcasts and discussion will continue in the new year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Due to the world travels of those who put the podcasts together each week. Our podcasts and discussion will continue in the new year. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

]]> By: Albert Ramirez http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-49 Albert Ramirez Tue, 27 Dec 2005 18:26:33 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-49 Do you have a new podcast for this week? The last one I see is from Dec. 11th. Thank you for all you do to build up the Kingdom. These are excellent messages and I look forward every week to listening. I know a little about web sites so if there's anything I can help out with, please let me know. Maybe I can help you update your site if you are needing someone to help. I would like to volunteer my time to your ministry. E-mail me anytime. I know the Lord will continue to bless your ministry. Do you have a new podcast for this week? The last one I see is from Dec. 11th. Thank you for all you do to build up the Kingdom. These are excellent messages and I look forward every week to listening.

I know a little about web sites so if there’s anything I can help out with, please let me know. Maybe I can help you update your site if you are needing someone to help. I would like to volunteer my time to your ministry. E-mail me anytime.

I know the Lord will continue to bless your ministry.

]]> By: shibu mathew http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-46 shibu mathew Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:17:39 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-46 Ron - I love that language too. God's idea of government/empire is NOT like i think of the terms, are they? "appeal to the Christ within them"...sure does raise the value of 'ordinary' people in my life. Bill - "we become the intersection" That is fantastik. We are more than Christ's ambassadors, we are now ambassadors of the incarnational Intersection. a great forum for internalizing Erwin's teaching...thanks for participating. Ron - I love that language too. God’s idea of government/empire is NOT like i think of the terms, are they? “appeal to the Christ within them”…sure does raise the value of ‘ordinary’ people in my life.

Bill - “we become the intersection” That is fantastik. We are more than Christ’s ambassadors, we are now ambassadors of the incarnational Intersection.

a great forum for internalizing Erwin’s teaching…thanks for participating.

]]> By: OutSide http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-44 OutSide Mon, 26 Dec 2005 00:07:05 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-44 I use iTunes, but not for podcasts. Where is the RSS feed? I use iTunes, but not for podcasts. Where is the RSS feed?

]]> By: casey tygrett http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-35 casey tygrett Mon, 19 Dec 2005 22:01:26 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-35 I've enjoyed greatly hearing the talks coming out of Mosaic. Thank you all for the hours of work and effort that goes into podcasting. I really dug this last talk, and I think a further discussion of Jesus/government/Kingdom desperately needs to come out of it. I think this goes along well with things I've been reading from N.T. Wright, Richard Rohr, etc. on what Jesus really was trying to form when He intersected humanity. thank you again, Mosaic, Erwin, and all involved. peace of Christ to you- casey tygrett I’ve enjoyed greatly hearing the talks coming out of Mosaic. Thank you all for the hours of work and effort that goes into podcasting.

I really dug this last talk, and I think a further discussion of Jesus/government/Kingdom desperately needs to come out of it. I think this goes along well with things I’ve been reading from N.T. Wright, Richard Rohr, etc. on what Jesus really was trying to form when He intersected humanity.

thank you again, Mosaic, Erwin, and all involved.

peace of Christ to you-
casey tygrett

]]> By: Georgie Kelsey http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-33 Georgie Kelsey Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:58:10 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-33 I recently got a new IPOD and my hubby had been telling me all about podcasts and how we are going to get one going for our young adults ministry, i jumped online and was absolutely stoked that mosaic's podcast had just started! Thankyou! It's so great to be able to hear what you guys are teaching every week and it's so inspiring! Thanks heaps Georgie, Sydney, Australia I recently got a new IPOD and my hubby had been telling me all about podcasts and how we are going to get one going for our young adults ministry, i jumped online and was absolutely stoked that mosaic’s podcast had just started! Thankyou! It’s so great to be able to hear what you guys are teaching every week and it’s so inspiring! Thanks heaps
Georgie, Sydney, Australia

]]> By: bill http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-32 bill Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:45:20 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-32 Just subscribed to this. What a tremedous resource. "For to us a child is born...". I've always loved that passage, and I don't really know why. Perhaps it's because there's so much in it. "A child is born" is such a simple statement. Children are born every day. In spite of the mystery and awe, it's a very commonplace event. It happens in the most natural of ways. But this was the most fantastic of births. It is the greatest intersection of the spiritual and the physical. It's as though the sword of God split time in two. A dissection of time into the old and the new, darkness and light, death and life. But more significant is that this intersection needs to take place in our lives. Just as this birth happened at a specific point in time; so it needs to happen at a point in our lives. First with our decision to surrender all and follow this King of kings, then every day afterward as we make that conscious decision to live for Him and not for us. Then we become the intersection in this world of the divine and the physical. Because we recognize and submit to this birth, we are the bearers of the light that brings life. I need so much to be reminded of that throughout the day. I shouldn't be, but I am so easily distracted from it. Pray for me, and I'll pray for you. Just subscribed to this. What a tremedous resource.

“For to us a child is born…”. I’ve always loved that passage, and I don’t really know why. Perhaps it’s because there’s so much in it.

“A child is born” is such a simple statement. Children are born every day. In spite of the mystery and awe, it’s a very commonplace event. It happens in the most natural of ways. But this was the most fantastic of births. It is the greatest intersection of the spiritual and the physical. It’s as though the sword of God split time in two. A dissection of time into the old and the new, darkness and light, death and life.

But more significant is that this intersection needs to take place in our lives. Just as this birth happened at a specific point in time; so it needs to happen at a point in our lives. First with our decision to surrender all and follow this King of kings, then every day afterward as we make that conscious decision to live for Him and not for us.

Then we become the intersection in this world of the divine and the physical. Because we recognize and submit to this birth, we are the bearers of the light that brings life.

I need so much to be reminded of that throughout the day. I shouldn’t be, but I am so easily distracted from it. Pray for me, and I’ll pray for you.

]]> By: Daniel Decker http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-30 Daniel Decker Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:34:01 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-30 How amazing is technology? A mentor of mine gave me an early Christmas present... an iPod... and when I jumped on iTunes, for the first time, I was amazed to find the launch of Mosaic's podcast. I'm really looking forward to listening in and sharing this with others. You guys rock! Thanks to Erwin for sharing God's love in a way that is breaking through many religious barriers and a super huge THANK YOU to each and every one at Mosaic who helps make all that you do possible. I'm sure podcasting and the many other initiatives take a lot of very talented people whose contributions are so greatly appreciated. - Daniel Decker : Jacksonville, FL. How amazing is technology? A mentor of mine gave me an early Christmas present… an iPod… and when I jumped on iTunes, for the first time, I was amazed to find the launch of Mosaic’s podcast. I’m really looking forward to listening in and sharing this with others. You guys rock! Thanks to Erwin for sharing God’s love in a way that is breaking through many religious barriers and a super huge THANK YOU to each and every one at Mosaic who helps make all that you do possible. I’m sure podcasting and the many other initiatives take a lot of very talented people whose contributions are so greatly appreciated. - Daniel Decker : Jacksonville, FL.

]]> By: ron http://mosaic.org/2005/12/11/the-beginning-of-great-things/#comment-27 ron Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:00:49 +0000 http://mosaic.org/2005/12/12/the-beginning-of-great-things#comment-27 'a government can't make you treat your wife with respect (or care for the broken people around you etc)' the essential nature of Christ's kingdom is it's eternal-internalness. The kingdom of God is either within us (Luke 17) or it isn't. His rule reigns in us or it doesn't. Trying to help other followers this week it helped me to remember that I must appeal to the Christ within them rather than trying to impose a rule upon them. Attempting to govern a human being created free in the image of God is not the same as attempting to unleash the rule of God within them. Thanks for stirring up images and ideas so Jesus can form them into life in me and our community. ‘a government can’t make you treat your wife with respect (or care for the broken people around you etc)’ the essential nature of Christ’s kingdom is it’s eternal-internalness. The kingdom of God is either within us (Luke 17) or it isn’t. His rule reigns in us or it doesn’t. Trying to help other followers this week it helped me to remember that I must appeal to the Christ within them rather than trying to impose a rule upon them. Attempting to govern a human being created free in the image of God is not the same as attempting to unleash the rule of God within them. Thanks for stirring up images and ideas so Jesus can form them into life in me and our community.

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