Keith Green movie in the works

From Los Angeles Daily News:

Christian rock icon's widow enlists Hollywood to tell the musician's story

Nearly 30 years after Christian-rock pioneer Keith Green died in a plane crash, his widow and a Hollywood producer have teamed up to bring his story to the big screen in the hope of introducing a new generation to his music.

One of several Christian rock musicians who lived in the San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, Keith and his wife, Melody, wrote numerous hit songs, but also formed a seven-home community in Woodland Hills where they cared for people in need.

"The stuff he did was breaking all the rules," said Melody, now an author, composer and speaker who leads Last Days Ministries out of Kansas City, Mo.

"He showed up in flip-flops, blue jeans and suspenders and really kind of revolutionized the music industry by giving away his music for free, loving God, really loving people and telling Christians, `Hey, we've got to do what we say we believe."'

Full Article: http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_15105172

Forgiveness When Shame Is Heavy

A video blog on forgiveness when our shame is too overwhelming from Aaron Stone of the band My Epic. Make sure you watch the whole thing, because there is a special treat at the end.

Reforming Reformed Always Reforming

I read an uncomfortably poignant slogan today. It is translated many ways, with different words left out here and there, thus changing its meaning. This is the full quote, I believe. My understanding of Spanish, French, and English and love of transliteration will attempt a literal translation, with a little help from Google (which does not translate Latin).

"ecclesia reformata semper reformanda est secundu Verbum Dei."

"Church (Assembly) reformed always reforming is second(to) Word God"

In an English grammar mold, it looks like this:
"The Reformed Church is always reforming according to the Word of God"

Often it is just quoted "ecclesia semper reformanda" meaning "church always reforming." You can see where this quote could be greatly abused if only half of it is used.

How does this saying challenge you? For me, it's something like this: I am reformed, not because I want to fit into an organized mold, but because because being reformed means precisely the opposite; always studying the Word of God so that the mold of useless human methodical moralism does not become the new word of God.

Church should never "feel good" just because something is familiar tradition. We must always be asking why we do what we do, and what are we not doing that we should.

After reading this, don't go to your pastor and say, "We need to reform." Rather, ask him, "how can I make sure that I am always reforming to what the Bible says?"

Women and Calvinism

Carolyn James speaks at a Religious Newsletters Association meeting briefly about what it means for her to be a Christian woman. If you're finding the Bible to be male-dominated, double-standardized, and a bit chauvinistic, give an ear to this woman and how she learned that the Bible is not domineering towards women, but rather extraordinarily freeing.

From the DesiringGod.org Resource Library. External link here.