A Sad Day

Terri Schiavo passed away today. I won't say anything more based on my opinion, but I would like to leave us with this fact:

-170,000 disabled people were killed by the Nazis (because they did not have a "good" quality of life), making them the second largest group of Holocaust victims after Jewish people.


Tommy

Easter and Day 3

I had an absolutely wonderful Easter weekend. Our worship experience at Northview was a beautiful time of worship and celebration. Easter is my favorite holiday because we get to celebrate the very reason we are Christ followers, his death, and resurrection.

We also have started to host a city-wide non-denominational bible study called Day 3 at Northview, and we had a wonderfully intimate time of worship together yesterday. It is fun to get together and worship with people you know, as well as those whom you don't know. The body of Christ is a beautiful thing.

Tommy

Holy Thursday

When it was time, he sat down, all the apostles with him, and said, "You've no idea how much I have looked forward to eating this Passover meal with you before I enter my time of suffering. It's the last one I'll eat until we all eat it together in the kingdom of God."

Luke 22:14-16

How I See It

The Terri Schiavo case is an occurrence in history that is begging for the voice of the Body of Christ. I just want to share my personal opinion in this case, hoping that it will add to the dialogue of many followers of Christ on this subject.

Without getting into legal speak (i.e. the Senate's intervention, courts, etc.), I want to focus on the big picture. We have a woman whom God has created who is by some accounts "alive" and by other accounts "brain dead". With this bit of information alone we, as believers in Christ, should at this point always be on the side of life. There is no room for error in this situation, there is not room for ideology. If we genuinely believe in the sanctity of life, and we have a full grasp of the gift that it is, then by no means should we advocate the removal of a feeding tube which may or may not kill this woman. This also begs the question of living wills and so forth...I'm not going to go into those ethics, but what I want us to be aware of is that we do not have a living will in this case. We only have word of mouth testimony (which is also sketchy at this point, but I digress).

This posting was put here on the fly, so it isn't perfect, but I wanted to just voice the opinion that I have regarding life. I am by no means advocating what the Senate has done, what the courts are doing, what the family, or husband is doing, but I have posted to share with you that in any case when there is ANY doubt, we should always err on the side of life, always.

Trip To Nashville

Sorry it has been so drastically long since I have posted, I have been out of town and super busy. On that note, I should let you know that I went out of town last week to Nashville to do some writing and recording. I had a gret time, and got a lot acomplished. The photos below this post are all from last week, it was a great time.

Well, we have finally moved into our new facility at Northview, and it is amazing. God is blessing in some miraculous ways. I am very excited about where he is taking us next. I am also VERY excited about the upcoming Easter weekend. I love Easter and what it means to those who follow Christ!! God is moving, keep on praying!

Tommy

Trip To Nashville

Trip To Nashville

Trip To Nashville

Weather, Gas, God

The weather this week has been absolutely breathtaking. God is definitely putting on quite a show in heaven. Unfortunately gas prices seem to be skyrocketing all across the country, we here in Oklahoma City have the cheapest in the country, but we feel the pain as well, as soon as it hits $2.00 a gallon we will all be freaking out (even though the rest of the US and the world has been over $2.00 for a long time). Oh the joys of being a cowboy...
Our first worship experience in Northview's new worship facility was amazing!! We had such a blast, and God was there changing lives in big ways. If you click on the title of this blog you can see pictures of that weekend. God bless you all!! And, if you are a Christ follower, invite him to start to cultivate in you a spirit of worship before you enter your house of worship this weekend.

Tommy

Move In Week and Grace

All the photos below this post are from our move in week at Northview. We are finally moving in to our new space that has taken a long time to finish. The anticipation is killing us!

This week at Northview our worship experience is based on the idea of Grace. Grace is one of those topics that brings to mind the forgiveness of our sin, the unmerited love that God has for us, so on and so forth. All those things are critical to our knowledge and experience of God, but as I have been designing and implenting elements for this weekend I have started to see once again that grace is a very hard subject to deal with as a human. Is it possible to extend grace to someone as ruthless as Saddam, is it conceivable to extend grace to someone who killed a family member (Timothy McVeigh), etc. Grace isn't fair and if we don't come to grips with the implications that it has on those who truly believe Jesus Christ then we will be living out a faith that will never be complete. It's been an interesting study. I would welcome any thoughts. God bless you guys, sorry it's been so long since I have posted.

Tommy

Moving In Photos

Moving In Photos

Moving In Photos

Moving In Photos

Moving In Photos