so i went crazy with my new nikon d70 while i was in nyc with my family. when i got back home and played a little with photoshop elements and created some cool shots. i just posted them at my mac site under "a different look at nyc".
posted by J.R. Woodward @ 1:30 AM
awakening people to renovate their world in los angeles and beyond
My desire is to awaken people to see reality and help renovate the world in which we live. I write as one in need of much renovation myself. When i think about the city in which I live and the stuff that is happening in our world and my own life, I find myself getting cynical at times. The only thing that really gives me hope for the future is Jesus. For he seems to be the only one who was able to live a life fully faithful to God. Jesus wasn’t like most people, he had a genuine concern for people’s lives. He was willing to confront the fraud and hypocrisy that he found in the religious and political institutions of his day for the sake of the oppressed. As a result, he faced the same punishment every other political dissident faced, death on a cross. So if the best man who ever lived died trying to make the world a better place, what hope is there for us? Why bother doing any good? Because God justified Jesus’ life and mission by raising him from the dead. So now we can experience new life and partner with him in his project to renovate the world. My hope is to pick up the la times and the sacred text, and figure out how to follow Jesus more fully in this world.
2 Comments:
jr:
i love your photos, man! Especially the ones titled new humanity. you should use those to illustrate your new humanity teaching- christ bringing the color.
also, did you know that matchbox twenty has a song called black and white people? here is a sample lyric from the song:
"it's just the technicolor dream of black and white people"...might be a good song to check out...but of course as MBT's greatest fan, i'm always over-eager to promote them.
thanks for the lead on the new blog site. i like it alot.
-patty
Patty,
Thanks for your comments. This coming January I will be starting to teach a series entitled "The New Humanity" going through the book of Ephesians. I'm really excited about it. I may use that picture as the series image.
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