KAT VON D IS SINGLE!!! 
Those that know me, know I LOVE me some Kat Von D! So I’m here watching the premiere of “L.A. Ink” and I hear her say, “I’m single.” I’m like, WHAT!? Checked her Official MySpace page…and there it is…SINGLE. Not sure what happened with her and Oliver Peck, but what matters is…I’m that much closer to my gorgeous tattooed dream girl!
That’s all for now. I’ll go to sleep extra happy tonight!
Lately, this in what I’m hearing from people. “Man, I really am a Christian and I love God…but I can’t do church.” Following this statement will often be varied “reasons” for which this person refuses to go to church. Not only have I heard them all…at some point, I’ve used them all. I wager that I even invented and used some that you’ve never heard before. (and never will because I’m not going to be fuel for your apathy toward God’s fellowship)
All the while that I’ve been trying to smile through these exchanges with my friends, the truth is, it’s been eating at me something fierce! Then, while reading in “The Purpose Driven Life,” Rick Warren makes it very clear, through Scripture, that God intends us to have church. And, it just so happens that I am a member of the coolest church ever! Yes, I said COOLEST church…and I do mean cool as in hip, edgy, relate able and fun. NewSpring. It’s that awesome. Does your church play “Stairway to Heaven” while you’re looking for your seat? What about your choir, have they ever broke out into AudioSlave before? Didn’t thik so. I go to the church that people that (did) hate church go to.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 (The Message)
12-13You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.
Romans 12:5 (New King James Version)
5 so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.
Religion has ruined what Christ set his disciples and apostles out to do with church. This is nothing new. This was happening in the late 40’s. As in 48 AD. Just read any of Paul’s letters to the church. Try Galatians, 1 or 2 Corinthians or Romans. You’ll see how frustrated Paul is with these people who’ve taken the gift of church and turned it into some rule-driven slave home that NO ONE could enjoy! This is Biblical people. Yet, so many churches ignore the very message that Christ himself beset upon Paul. And, in doing so, not only do they fail to reach non-believers, but they sour the hearts of their very own.
I hated church. Long before I was an atheist. Hated being there. Hated the people, their cliques and their rancid stinking hypocrisy! Unfortunately, I didn’t see what was at work here. And I’m certain that these friends of mine don’t see it either. Separating myself from the church and God’s people…judging their sins and measuring their hypocrisy all my own…was the very start of my separation from Christ. That is always the starting point. While I do believe that many churches that operate today are merely buildings where casual Christians gather, where God has not dwelled in ages, there are churches out there that are doing it right.
But you can’t separate yourself from Christian fellowship or gauge a church based upon a person or people who attend there. Many don’t know it, but it was the very observation of Christian hypocrisy that led Anton LaVey to his creation of Satanism. It was the same Christian hypocrisy that led me to his church! Christianity is not about men. It’s about you and Christ! However, we are charged by Christ to love one another and to fellowship in His name. I’m sorry but even if you have a Multiple Personality Disorder, you can’t fellowship alone!
Give church, give Christians a chance. Don’t let other people’s hypocrisies, past hardships, past orthodoxies, or your last church led you to complacency in Christ…and ultimately a great distance from His Grace. Your relationship with Christ may be hanging in the balance…make sure you tip the scales in the right direction.
I leave you with Paul’s opening letter to the Galatians.
Galatians 1:6-12 (The Message)
6-9I can’t believe your fickleness—how easily you have turned traitor to him who called you by the grace of Christ by embracing a variant message! It is not a minor variation, you know; it is completely other, an alien message, a no-message, a lie about God. Those who are provoking this agitation among you are turning the Message of Christ on its head. Let me be blunt: If one of us—even if an angel from heaven!—were to preach something other than what we preached originally, let him be cursed. I said it once; I’ll say it again: If anyone, regardless of reputation or credentials, preaches something other than what you received originally, let him be cursed.
10-12Do you think I speak this strongly in order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with God? Or get popular applause? If my goal was popularity, I wouldn’t bother being Christ’s slave. Know this—I am most emphatic here, friends—this great Message I delivered to you is not mere human optimism. I didn’t receive it through the traditions, and I wasn’t taught it in some school. I got it straight from God, received the Message directly from Jesus Christ.
I found this video on YouTube and thought it’d serve a great dual purpose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1QUpvUwm5M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSKKWp92VW4
Enjoy!I really dig the grainy almost Soderbergh’s-Traffic-esque effect this filmmaker achieved with the Letus. It’s amazing what a little experimentation and color correction will do!I’m highly considering purchasing this adapter set as it can be had for less than $500!
The M2 Redrock seems MUCH cleaner. It comes in at around $900 for the SLR version. They also have a PL (Cinema Lens) edition for $1600 which is far superior to either of these. However, cinema lenses are FAR from cheap.
And lastly, here’s a nice professional piece with the Redrock mounted to the DVX100A using Canon FL lens. Garrett, you’ll love this one!!
You can buy me this!
The mini35 film lens adapter set for the Panasonic DVX100A.
It costs less than a decent used car. So, if a few of you chipped in, it wouldn’t be that bad.
Right?
I’ll have something more meaningful to post later.
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