From Our Cold Dead Hands

"Sometimes the value of a thing lies not in what we get by means of it, but in what we pay for it - what it costs us."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

I have no doubt that the way I am about to use this quote is unfaithful to the way Nietzsche originally intended it. But little bones of scripture have for years been lifted from the ribcage of a lamb and used as vertabrea to build a serpent. So I am claiming this method for the lamb.

What does Jesus, what does Christian discipleship, cost us?

Nothing. It is a free gift.

No. This Jesus who requires nothing of us is indeed an idol. Nietzsche was more right than he knew. Let's get beyond the easily regurgitated Sunday School answers and the abc's of salvation. What does it cost us? What does it take from us?

Our sinfulness.

The gift of God's Son wrests this from us; and yet it is so precious to us.

Movie Meme

Wil's meme

1. One movie that made you laugh
Iron Man

2. One movie that made you cry
A Thief in the Night (I was in first grade at a Christian school in Texas when they made us watch this terrible - yet, to a first-grader, terrifying - precursor to the Left Behind dribble).

3. One movie you loved when you were a child
Raiders of the Lost Ark

4. One movie you’ve seen more than once
Pulp Fiction

5. One movie you loved, but were embarrassed to admit it
Music and Lyrics

6. One movie you hated
Almost Heroes

7. One movie that scared you
The Descent

8. One movie that bored you
Doomsday (Neil Marshall, I thought you were better than this)

9. One movie that made you happy
Tender Mercies

10. One movie that made you miserable
The Serpent's Egg

11. One movie you weren’t brave enough to see
None really...unless you count high school boys trying to sneak into Showgirls. I wasn't down with that.

12. One movie character you’ve fallen in love with
James from Ratcatcher

13. The last movie you saw
The Black Dahlia

14. The next movie you hope to see
8 1/2

15. Your favorite movie (I added this one)
Persona

Death Metal Puppy

My description line above promises some metal. So every now and then I have to come through. Enjoy. Throw your neck out.