Tweet: "Speaking at K-Christian MS was awesome! Incredible staff and students. Let's be Unashamed Worshippers!"
On Friday, I had the privilege of speaking to 180 middle schoolers at Kalamazoo Christian Middle School.
Two weeks ago, I received a call from an 8th grade student who attends gracespring, named Lizzie. She said her 8th grade class was planning a community worship at their school and they wanted the theme to be, praise.
"I would love to come!" was my response to Lizzie. I began asking God for wisdom about what to speak on. So there I was, standing in the shower and I thought, "Talk about David dancing naked in the streets!"
So I quickly looked up where that story was found (Thank you, biblegateway.com), and read it. I learned that David wasn't naked, he was wearing a linen ephod. Still, not a lot of clothes! So to translate that to our culture, I imagined David wearing a diaper and being unashamed of it.
I challenged the middle schoolers to live a life of unashamed praise the same way. Live your life in such a way that you will stand out (in a positive way) from the rest. Just like you would stand out if you were wearing only a diaper.
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Saturday, September 10, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Tweet #1,231
The tweet:
For me and my generation, the good ol' days will be when iTunes songs were only $0.99.
This tweet has a long history in the world of fast paced tweets. This one begins at a birthday party for Ben Belloli (good friend, slowly becoming great friend, who just got engaged) about a month ago. At the birthday party was a friend from high school who stood up in my wedding, Adam. Adam attends Mars Hill and we quickly began discussing Rob Bell's latest book, Love Wins. This led to a discussion on theology and us genuinely sharing our theological views on free will.
Two weeks later, Adam posted a link on my Facebook wall regarding a book he thought I would enjoy. I suggested to him at that point that we start a book club together and read one book a month and then get together and discuss it. He loved the idea and the book we are starting with is, Justification by N. T. Wright.
Naturally, I had to go to Barnes & Noble. They didn't have the book.
The reason I was thinking about iTunes started when Beth (my wife) and I were at the Barnes & Noble cafe. While we were waiting in line, Beth noticed "The Green Album" for sale. It's a tribute CD by various artists to Kermit the Frog(random thought: does Ghandi have a tribute CD?). Beth picked it up and showed me that one of our favorite artists, Andrew Bird had a song on their. I then saw the $14.99 price tagged and I commented about how easy it would be to find a cheaper copy of the CD. So I pulled out my beautiful iPhone 4 (I just realized I put the adjective beautiful before my iPhone and put no adjective at all before describing my wife...oops) and opened up the app called Shop Savvy, scanned the bar code and found the CD for less than $10 via digital download on iTunes. When I clicked on the CD in iTunes, I saw that all the songs were $1.29 to download them individually. At that point, I remembered the good ol' days.
For me and my generation, the good ol' days will be when iTunes songs were only $0.99.
This tweet has a long history in the world of fast paced tweets. This one begins at a birthday party for Ben Belloli (good friend, slowly becoming great friend, who just got engaged) about a month ago. At the birthday party was a friend from high school who stood up in my wedding, Adam. Adam attends Mars Hill and we quickly began discussing Rob Bell's latest book, Love Wins. This led to a discussion on theology and us genuinely sharing our theological views on free will.
Two weeks later, Adam posted a link on my Facebook wall regarding a book he thought I would enjoy. I suggested to him at that point that we start a book club together and read one book a month and then get together and discuss it. He loved the idea and the book we are starting with is, Justification by N. T. Wright.
Naturally, I had to go to Barnes & Noble. They didn't have the book.
The reason I was thinking about iTunes started when Beth (my wife) and I were at the Barnes & Noble cafe. While we were waiting in line, Beth noticed "The Green Album" for sale. It's a tribute CD by various artists to Kermit the Frog(random thought: does Ghandi have a tribute CD?). Beth picked it up and showed me that one of our favorite artists, Andrew Bird had a song on their. I then saw the $14.99 price tagged and I commented about how easy it would be to find a cheaper copy of the CD. So I pulled out my beautiful iPhone 4 (I just realized I put the adjective beautiful before my iPhone and put no adjective at all before describing my wife...oops) and opened up the app called Shop Savvy, scanned the bar code and found the CD for less than $10 via digital download on iTunes. When I clicked on the CD in iTunes, I saw that all the songs were $1.29 to download them individually. At that point, I remembered the good ol' days.
Sunday, September 4, 2011
What is Pete Behind the Tweet
If you've known me for any length of time, you probably know that I am a huge fan of Twitter. Several thousand times a month my phone vibrates letting me know that I have a new text messages and two-thirds of the time it is a new tweet. I follow many people but only. Select few are sent to my phone. I'll share some of my favorites later.
While receiving tweets is fun, there is nothing more liberating and exciting in the social network world than sending out a tweet of your own. When you type up a message that contains your exact thoughts, feelings, or actions and you are free to share that with the entire world(which for me consists of about 0.000000762% of the world's population), you feel empowered.
While I love reading a great tweet from say @louiegiglio, I sometimes wonder what the back story is. What made him send that tweet at that exact moment? So, to amuse myself and hopefully a few others, I have decided to share on a regular basis the backstory behind a few of my more interesting (at least from my purely selfish perspective) tweets.
I hope you laugh, say 'oh ok', an learn a little but more about me. Because that's why I follow people on Twitter, I want to get to know them better and develop a greater sense of community with them. So, follow me, @almost_peter as we embark upon this humorous and informative journey together.
While receiving tweets is fun, there is nothing more liberating and exciting in the social network world than sending out a tweet of your own. When you type up a message that contains your exact thoughts, feelings, or actions and you are free to share that with the entire world(which for me consists of about 0.000000762% of the world's population), you feel empowered.
While I love reading a great tweet from say @louiegiglio, I sometimes wonder what the back story is. What made him send that tweet at that exact moment? So, to amuse myself and hopefully a few others, I have decided to share on a regular basis the backstory behind a few of my more interesting (at least from my purely selfish perspective) tweets.
I hope you laugh, say 'oh ok', an learn a little but more about me. Because that's why I follow people on Twitter, I want to get to know them better and develop a greater sense of community with them. So, follow me, @almost_peter as we embark upon this humorous and informative journey together.
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