http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:08:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My last post was about how much I was enjoying N.T. Wright’s book: “The Challenge of Jesus”. In the book Wright gives a view of Jesus as being completely human, a Jesus never truly realizing his God-ness until the Resurrection. Wright portrays Jesus’ time in the gardens of Gethsemane in ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/rmc-41-what-if-god-was-one-of-us-part-2 RMC #40 - What if God was one of us? Just a stranger on a bus. Do you ever think of Jesus as a man? I can truthfully say I never did. What Jesus had to say to us was so perfect, it could only be God speaking through him, the God ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/rmc-40-what-if-god-was-one-of-us-just-a-stranger-on-a-bus I started thinking one morning about being in God’s will. Here it is we say: “Thy will be done.”, yet since everything is all and all in God isn’t His will always done? I started thinking about this as I struggled with a question in my life. It had turned ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/rmc-39-god%e2%80%99s-will RMC #38- FUMCR Cross When I first started going to The Vail Church I never noticed the cross in the church. I remember thinking that one morning as I drove to Avon to join in the Men’s Bible Study being held early each Wednesday. So as I drove on this cool fall ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/rmc-38-fumcr-cross RMC # 37- The Importance of Glory Sometimes the obvious is not so obvious to we humans. Or, at least not to this human. My “understanding” and importance of glory really began when I read C.S. Lewis’ sermon called “The Weight of Glory” about a year ago. I thought that an odd ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/the-importance-of-glory Ron and Brenda were some of our favorite friends when we lived in Dallas. They actually left before we did and we have not been able to see them other than a night in St.Louis before a golf tournament. That was way fun! Anyway, they have since moved to southern ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/the-fires-in-california-as-told-by-our-friend-brenda-paige The Blessings I Have Received from the Churches I have Attended I started to think about my spiritual journey over my life and was struck by a thought… how fortunate I had been in belonging to two churches that have been and are now being lead by really great Christian examples. ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/rmc-36-the-blessings-i-have-received-from-the-churches-i-have-attended At church Sunday at the Vail Church we had testimony from a young women who had gone through these kind of trials. It is only apt that I should receive this from one of my Choices buddies- Sandy Valenzuela. Thank you for sharing this with me. [youtube]cyheJ480LYA[/youtube] http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/incredible-skit-of-truth-and-light "If the mountain was smooth you couldn't climb it." For people who have been moved to tears by hearing Amazing Grace, then you should get some tissues ready. [youtube]DMF_24cQqT0[/youtube] http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/an-amazing-amazing-grace Have I said yet, or told you that Suzy always knows what’s best for me? Sometimes in unimaginable ways. My nephew Scott was being married in St. Louis. I was invited. I had been fussing about whether or not to go. The cost to fly from Denver to St. Louis, the ... http://rockymountainclimbing-a-diary.com/rmc-35-humbled%e2%80%a6-a-common-state-of-mind