This is an excellent video of Steve Harvey “Introducing Jesus” to a crowd at a comedy show. It is fantastic and very funny.
Thanks to Jon @ PropheticReformation who spotted this
Posts Tagged ‘Jesus
26
Feb
09
That’s My King – S.M. Lockeridge
The other night while chatting through some stuff with one of the guys I was asked why my prayer times often turned into praise and celebration times. After giving it some thought I was able to pin-point when this change started to take place. It was following a sermon given by my great friend and mentor Graham Draper, who more than anyone has been, with his wife, my spiritual parent(s) and now a much loved older, wiser, sleepier brother . During this sermon he played a six minute ‘rant’ by an American preacher S.M. Lockeridge. This famous rant know as “That’s my King” fulsomely describes our king Jesus, who He is what He has done, how wonderful, majestic, awesome, loving, graceful… the list goes on.
I have for the last few years played this ‘rant’ on the old mp3 player at the start of the day, just to remind me who it is I worship.
That has truly changed my life, probably more powerfully than any sermon, book, tape, CD, DVD, course or worship song.
By being focused on the person of Jesus, in this way, I have been able to overcome I dread of slow contemplative songs and my times of prayer have become much less a list of things I need doing or want, or even thanksgiving, they have become expressions of my love for Jesus.
So I thought I would post it up here in three different ways. The first is a video put together on YouTube with some additional music, the second the original audio track and the third text version of the words.
Watch / listen / Read and allow the real awesome Jesus to invade you life!
Dance Remix
Rock remix
Audio – Here
Words – Here
So there I was doing the husband trudge following behind the beautiful Mrs Beatthedrum around our local outlet stores. You know the husband trudge, slight behind, slightly miserable face, much tutting and muttering about have to do the Christmas shopping when I can do it all online at home and for less money. Using the well practiced husband lines like
“I am sure they will like it”
“HOW MUCH!!!!”
“Do we have to send them something, I thought they were dead?”
“Yes yes that will do”
“Can we go for a coffee now”
“It looks lovely dear but why are we looking for shoes for you when we are supposed to be shopping for Christmas presents for aunt Matila?”
So there I was lost in my own little world when the face of Doctor Greg House MD popped into my head. Why? I have no idea, and then I remembered one of the classic Dr House quotes…”Everybody lies!”
This got me thinking its true everybody lies, or spreads the truth thinly. In fact we are ALL EVIL, none of us are good, we all have EVIL thoughts and we even act some of them out. From not letting someone into the traffic cue by ignoring them, pinching the odd sheet of paper from work, telling the kids that Santa exists, saying “I’m ok” when asked how you’re doing by the stewards when you feel like a spade has been used to pummel your face in. We even lie to ourselves, I’ll start to diet on Monday, no next Monday, ill start Monday, no not last Monday, Monday coming. I’ll read my bible every day without fail, ok ill start tomorrow. We all lie.
It never fails to surprise me that God wanted to know us and be with us even though we are so thoroughly evil and corrupt. He is perfect, we are imperfect, He is Holy, we are evil, He is truthfully, we lie, He loves, we hate and despise.
Lucky for us there was one who did not like, who didn’t do evil, who was Holy and Perfect. Jesus Christ now the imperfect can meet the perfect, the Evil can come to the Holy and call Him Father.
