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~One of the logos I made for church. Not the one they chose but definitely my favorite.~

This week has been pretty nuts. I am so thankful for racquetball and awesome friends. Really keeps the stress levels down!

Yeah so Christian books are expensive. See I have just been borrowing the books that I have been reading (thanks). Holy Cow I had to buy a book for a bible study. It was like $25 with tax. Are you kidding me. And the new Yellowcard CD was cheeper that the new POD on iTunes. Hurray for commercialism.

I had to post last night on my myspace (www.myspace.com/reeltoreel) because for some reason this wasn't working.

The chapter I read tonight was called Morality, Why I'm Better than you. I have to admit while it sounded really really good I'm not so sure about Donald Millers theology especially with his comments on Paul and grace. Stinken Houghton, I used to just believe everything and that would be nice.

He basically just talks about Christian "Morality" and how it is really screwed up compared to what Jesus would have represented. One thing that I thought was really poignant was his argument about homosexuality and abortion. This seems to becoming a main issue of faith/condemnation. Incidentally we are all sinners and we should possibly not cast our stones because our lives are pretty screwed up too. Sometimes we forget the importance of Grace in the Christian faith.

One thing that also struck me was the idea of morality and why we do it when we no longer believe that morality is the saving factor in our faith. I had a nod your head moment. Honestly sometimes I'm just like why the crap should I be moral if there is grace. Why not just go out and have a fun time or get the answers for the homework of the unprotected network drive. He says what about morality for Gods sake. It just brought me back to the idea of how hypocrisy runs rampant throughout the church and in some aspects of my life and how devastating that can be to Jesus himself and ministry.