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Have you ever wondered if God grieves this time of year during Christmas? Not because of just

confusing this season with Santa when it was intended to be about His son, but because as Christians try

to tell the Story of the gospel they do it with their version of commercialized Christmas as told by a mall

sales man. I mean even pastors do this butchering. We make the story about opening a gift as if some

way somehow Jesus was packed in a box under a tree and only if you decide to open that box then you

will be the lucky winner of salvation. Wow! This is the kind of thing I mean when I ask if you wonder

about grieving the heart of God.

Jesus did not come among us so we could tell His story and confuse it with gift giving. Jesus did not die

so we could make His story marketable. Jesus did not rise again so we could brag about a story that is

about prosperity. He came to make rescue possible. He came because of love, love for all humanity. We

need to recapture the essence of His story and not let an American, cash, hungry culture abuse the most

incredible story of all. We must reclaim the greatest story ever told and tell of its greatness by properly

depicting the joy of it as well as its gory and difficult moments. Jesus is about a cradle, a cross and major

cities(epicenters). This is an attempt to encourage people to center His story back on these images of

the cradle, the cross and the city. This is an attempt to raise awareness of sloppy, passionless story

telling. This is an attempt to channel people back to the scriptures and back to the heart of God. This is

an attempt to begin to recapture the greatest narrative of all, the story of Jesus, God among us –

Emmanuel!

All though this is just a beginning and by no means is it perfect or even nearly Comprehensive, I pray it

begins to be reconsidered as you weigh how you tell His story this Christmas and all year long. Merry

Christmas because Jesus is Christ, Lord of all creation, because He lives, the center of Christmas!

 

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word up to the world wide web. listening to bloc party’s song, banquet(sick track) from their album silent alarm.

1.Jonatas de Sousa Bueno has written his blog in english after a recent request of mine. we met at a speaking engagement of mine in campinas, brasil. check his thoughts out. a great young artist! http://jonatasbueno.wordpress.com/

2.the office is in season 4, its rad, check it.

3.the weather is incredible in south florida. 8 months of hellaciously hot weather for 4 months of heaven realm.

4.going back to brasil to speak for a conference. a group of people who are processing the journey of what it means to be more like Jesus. i will be in the great city of rio sharing life w/them, speaking to what this means from my journey and learning alot!

5.writing a thesis w/my mentor. origins projections | studying history creating future… email me if you want to join the email newsletter database. writing w/a living church history legend. Dr. synesio lyra jr. has a blog on vox check him. tofillalittlespace.voxtropolis.com. i have asked him to be the lead writer w/me on the evolutionary journey of this part of a 3 tier vision for this project.

6.working on finishing my collaboration documentary w/an up and coming documentist, matt silvestri and my video technical director, marty reinhardt of reinhardt productions of a trip to devastated new orleans, louisiana. my good friend jac curry is a documentist, musician, fashion designer and activist that has founded defend new orleans dot com. check him out www.defendneworleans.com. we are working together to collaborate on the ongoing issues of the deterioration to the florida everglades wetlands and to the marsh deterioration to the lousiana swamps and marshes. up and coming!

7.writing a paper based on the book by kester brewin, signs of emergence, entitled, theology that transforms geography. this paper is a collision of theology proper, the doctrine of God, doctrine of the word, doctrine of man, harmatology (doctrine of sin), ecclesiology (church doctrine) & church future. writing for Dr. buz mcnutt at reformed theological seminary, systematic theology 1.

8.planting:::cant plant\advance the kingdom until the gospel devastates you. 2 friends of mine, one in los angeles went there thinking he was going to fix a city w/his new church plant. realized in his arrogance he went there to get fixed and it all began w/devastation. another friend of mine in south florida has been following a dream from a young age to help the homeless. i asked her if homelessness would cease. her answer, remarkable. theologically we know that homelessness will not cease to exist but check her response. homeless people are here for us as quote unquote normal people. until we learn our lessons of loving humanity and viewing all as equal and loving them like Christ then they will never cease to exist. how challenging to think that homelessness is a response and fall out to the “normal” people not fulfilling their role or seeing their lesson to learn.

9.quote:::”have a vision big enough to take you through the pain of transformation.” i have been living in this quote for 2 months. no greater a place and no place more devastating!

10.traveling:::origins projections::brasil, germany, london & a few u.s. hot spots. teaching::south florida, kentucky & brasil. learning::los angeles, atlanta, orlando & new york. expressions[documentaries & art]::new orleans plus all the above!

11.youtube.com search:jameson reeder. some teaching videos that are pre-conversation starters for some series i have done for the group of students i pastor. other ideas are live blogs and some real basic conversation about ministry philosophy in south florida and to the ends of the earth. a few other videos marty and i have made we have taken down for copyright and sales purposes. enjoy…

i need some good spiritual meat from some of my fellow voxtropilans. doing a series on birth order. my stop this week, as in less than 24hrs. from now, this wed evening, is on our need for one another. i allready have everything outlined i just thought it would be cool to include somewhat of a panel on this songs impact. im showing the video of snow patrols chasing cars & reading some really good comments from songmeanings.net. all of these comments are about the side of love that you would expect but i wanted to give some of you the opportunity to weigh in from a theological perspective as we joint teach, together, the future generation tomorrow night. also a way for me to pump your site as well as vox & the culture pub that is gonna be coming to south florida one day.

looking for some good stuff mates. thank you in advance for your participation//

ok, so my professor said write more so i am. for those who know me well, know i don’t like just doing things to do them but in order to get over this perplexity & massage a deeper burning in my ethos ive decided to write even when i don’t know where its going or even why i am writing. thank the doc for these precious pieces

*disclaimer*my writing style is raw even though ive had a classical education as my background & a precious grandmother who still thinks shes employed as a college professor teaching her graduate programs that still corrects my english mistakes over the telephone. my grammar has progressed w/artful designer concepts & more of a net/techno, speak easy understanding in a short hand text messaging world. all to say don’t miss the message, maybe its only for those w/eyes 2c.

i will be writing this initial confession as a thesis. as any thesis seeks to do this one will seek to provide an understanding into why i write, why i don’t write & to whom i write & the reasons & subjects. every blog that is lumped in the same category will carry the same title. for example this blog is entitled confessions|thesis, confessions|thesis v.2 will be an extended pick up of confessions|thesis. when i feel i have adequately captured my confessions|thesis (a confession of what this work is & an outline of where it is going), i will move to the next title which may only contain 1 volume instead of multiples. there is no deadline on the project that is why interaction w/humanity is a paramount & your responses are greatly recommended as i will gather much benefit from you. by the end of it all this may be a handbook on ::humanity::xperience|xpression|xpectation:: since this is an ongoing impression don’t be confused if you see me writing completely off the subject or not at all. this is my way of coping w/pressure. we will pick right back up where we left off, dont worry, dear old doc will be my constant reminder of how many days, weeks & minutes its been since our last encounter. now, down to my original thoughts of bringing this work to life off the dusty canvas of my mind & into reality.

several of my mates from my recent adventures to Israel have asked many questions about my life back home & my travels, poetry, music, teachings, relationships etc & my colleagues & students continue to all beckon the inquiry of, “tell us more from the Holy Land.” so i figured i would fuse these 2 worlds with a common ground in my blog & meet the demand of dear old doc. but in order to do that & remain true to the blog message,”adventure & mystery, escape & passion, inspiration & intrigue…” i would have to be a dj of some sort mixing back & forth between top 40, hip hop, jazz, rock, blues, electronica, requests & pop while still melding hints of, “whats the haps now?” so heres what im doing, taking 3 key questions & several core competencies of life itself & attaching my stories & the echoes of my heart to them. here they are. ::who are you?>identity & mission||where are you going?>vision & movement||how will you get there?>strategy & theory, method & meditation::

since i wont be answering these questions only from my perspective ive painted them in a more inclusive tone. i will be asking others these questions throughout the movements of my day as cultural convoys to help us align the rhythms of our hearts & the hearts of those we seek out.

to conclude the beginnings of v.1 i thought there had to be an alternative voice to help bring meaning to all this as we seek to live out loud on the rugged plains of reality. images inspire me & speak deep into the ethos of my being & one artisan that captures the essence & nature of my home state, florida, unlike many is alan s. maltz. in his book of powerful photography, FLORIDA beyond the blue horizon, there is a quote from william ralph inge - “faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.” may this quote be our very own jiminy cricket as we enjoy the experience wherever it leads us & may we choose to savor the moments until we transform from experiment & encounter the experience of a lifetime in the expression of Jesus!

|great expectations lead too great encounters||travel day 1|||Ft. Lauderdale to Atlanta to Tel Aviv, Israel||||

My heart is full as I write at 6:14 pm 12/28/06 Thurs my time|south Florida time|1:14am Tel Aviv, Israel time 12/29/06 Fri. So full that I all I can do is retire to be faithful to begin another amazing day tomorrow. I have been reading & thinking of many things. I have been making notes of potential blogs. The Lord has already filled my mind w/ideas for ministry back home. My relationship w/my brothers have deepened tremendously in only several hours of traveling & being in the hotel together.

As I have read of where we will go tomorrow & what we will be experiencing, I, like my father can begin to only think of those that I wish were here w/us to experience the move of Jesus upon his people as we walk where he walked & experience the history that propels us today to advance the kingdom of heaven upon this earth. We already spoke tonight of taking another trip w/others soon. This is before this trip has really even begun. I can’t even think of how we will all feel by the end of the time. I can’t imagine the names that will fill all my families heart of those that will comprise other trips we will Lord willing take in the very near future! This is only the beginning!

We sat by the Mediterranean sea tonight after diner, just Mom, Dad, Joshua, Justin & I, it is a cold night for this time of year, we had coffee at this dimly lit, quaint dessert café as we looked upon the water & laughed & told stories of our great expectations of this trip. We left & walked back up to the hotel which is situated starring the sea, the city & these rugged cliffs right in the face from the view of our balcony & sang & prayed at the top of the hotel before we came back to our rooms. This was a special Reeder moment as Justin my youngest brother led us in a prayer after my Dad asked him too. Joshua & I began a conversation in the room this evening that spurred both our hearts into greater expectation of what the Lord has planned for us on this trip & in life. Josh is truly seeking the Lord & it is such a joy to hear of the journey that is quickly becoming the adventure of a lifetime as he shares more w/me.

Diner was served & was amazing as we entered the Carlton hotel in Tel Aviv. I must say Dr. Gary Frazier & dmi(discovery ministries inc.) do it big as is one of my many life mottos! Dr. Frazier is among the top experts in end times knowledge & in shaping a Holy Land trip of a lifetime. A heralded author & renowned speaker he is a genuine man who is always moved by the spirit of God as he leads so many on the trip of their lifetime. As we sat & chatted over diner tonight we found out that there will be a German documentary film crew that will be following our group tomorrow as we travel & study on the subjects of location & of biblical/current relevance. Gary was telling me at diner that this will be his fourth attempt to allow an international film crew to follow him. Two others still have yet to produce there films & the third was a complete bash on him & all Christ followers & end times believers. From this English actor who hosted the documentary he said all Christians are to be blamed for the aids epidemic, the war & many other world problems. Gary said as long as these guys are hearing the gospel presented on these trips he’s all about letting them tag along even if there going to take a stab at him. This just goes to show the heart of this man who firmly believes in the life changing power of the gospel coupled w/this trip & seeing where it all played out on location.

I have already met several new people from all over Texas & Florida who have joined our rankings of the Reeder family hosted trip. We have a total of 45 & several young adults & teenagers. This is the makings of a tremendous trip. When I was here in the Holy Land at the age of 11, 15years ago, there were several young people along for the trip & it made it all the more memorable for me, but if it weren’t for my good friend Clyde King that I met in ’91 as I made my first tour of the Holy Land, the trip couldn’t have been as great. He taught me things that I will never forget like what m&m’s really stand for. Since Clyde was a manager for the New York Yankees, a player before that & a close friend of George Steinbrenner(the owner of the Yankees) whom he still consults w/on a regular basis, the meaning of m&m’s was a baseball thing, it meant Mantle & Meris for 2 of the greatest players of the game from his era, Mickey Mantle & Roger Meris. The ’91 trip continued to prove to be more special as it developed, not just in the friends I made on the trip or even the life changing events that we were experiencing but in records that were being broken & in local friends I was making as an 11 year old boy. It snowed in Jerusalem that year the most it had snowed in 36years. It was almost a miracle you would say. As this miracle of white, gracefully floated down from the heavens to bless us, I was reminded of the miracle that had just happened in my own life. The eve of thanksgiving that same year, I was hit by a truck at 42mph & rushed to the hospital. The Dr. told my family that if I were riding a smaller bike, the bike I always ride, then the truck would have run me over & killed me. Instead I just bounced off & still had 2 swollen lumps on my head to remind me that the Lord still had plans for me, Jer. 29:11. That trip was amazing!

I now return 15 years later as a student & college pastor w/my entire family expecting the Lord to do even greater things this time. After being in vocational ministry for 7 years now & preaching the word of God consistently week in & week out & being called into the ministry a year & a half after the ’91 Israel trip there is still much more He wants to do in my heart & life. I can hardly wait to journal & report of the glory of the Lord shinning round about us as we stand amazed in the presence of the King this Christmas time & new year.

Justin wants me too wake up at 5:30am w/him too work out. Ill be surprised if he gets up, I can tell you I probably wontJ I gotta go but day 1 of touring is Caesarea|Mount Carmel|Brook Kishon|Valley of Jezreel|Megiddo|Nazareth & Cana. With a few other stops on the way day 1 will be packed. I must rest to be able to fully maximize all that I will be taking in. We change hotels tomorrow so I hope I will be able to post another blog based on internet capabilities. But, until then…

||Becoming|Jameson Glenn||7:41pm est/2:41am Tel Aviv, Israel||

p.s. “In vino veritas!� Ill be at the location of the first miracle, the wedding feast in Cana John 2:1-11, tomorrow. Maybe the Lord will reveal some things about this interesting quote. One of my seminary professors shared this quote w/me. It means truth in wine.

11:29p.m. est

so this is my first vox post. neat, here we go!
i just received my glasses back after a week w/out them. my eyes were hurting & i felt very irresponsible for not taking better care of my eyes. now that i have my glasses back & am wearing them i feel soo much better. i wore my contacts for this entire period. they are called one a day disposable contacts. yes, every night you take them out & replace them the following day. what i did was just pittiful. i wore 1 pair for the entire period i didnt have my glasses, 1 week. (this goes somewhere i promise, just keep coming w/me.) what i imagine happened was my eyes braced for the period of time that they would be strainning & working over time to endure till the glasses would return as there comfort from pain.

on several of these days i worked on several of these days i had days off. during my work days it was added stress to my allready stressing eyes. on my off days it was just burdensome since i knew i was trying to enjoy but felt irresponsible when i had a major issue at hand disrupting my enjoyment. i did finally realize that it was out of my hands & if i didnt take advantage of my off time then i would frustrate myself trhought the week. i tried reading, writting, studying, eating, talking, driving, sleeping, swimming, working out, drinking & even going to a movie. almost all of these are vision driven. when i stopped trying & started being my vision came clear & effortless.

it was when i was on the 17th floor of a condo building in downtown west palm beach, fl on the pd(pool deck) relaxing in the beautiful so. fla. sun & rhythmic coastal breezes as it came to me in an indigo sunscape. it was when i submitted to the moment of being that my vision hit a catalytic moment. i dont have to see w/my eyes i see w/my dreams. it was when light was almost gone from my vision, as i slipped in & out of the real world(reality) & dream world(imagination), that i caught a glimpse of an adventure worth living for. a world where you dont need glasses cause all you see w/is your heart through your imagination.

as i was awakened by life as humanity came in & broke this divine moment it was a constant reminder to me that this vision must be shared. the humanity that came & broke the moment was out of fellowship w/being & knew nothing of the realm i was living in because his existence was based on trying. as he began to try & impress me through conversation of parties, titles, money & language i merely grinned as to let the light shine from w/in so a piece of an indigo sunset would begin to transform a life from trying into being.

once this rain cloud passed i looked to the west where on the horizon you can see the beginning of the florida wild wilderness the everglades, & saw ominous clouds fragmenting in an array of reds the fleeting light that lit the entire city all the way to the other wild wilderness that was backdropped in closing darkness, the great, deep & most mysterious atlantic. this is where i turned my focus to the darkness of the deep & mysterious where the rain cloud came from. this is where i found purpose in my vision from the heavenly realm that my heart gave birth to through my pain of lack of vision. i reasoned for a moment in time, “what good is vision of light to those who can see it? the true warriors run w/the light into the darkest of darkness in hopes of enableing those who could never see, a chance to have the vision of the light through a pair of glasses called vision.”

even the darkest of nights is revealed when the smallest of lights appear! never fear the deepest, darkest, most aweful night for the light of life may never be exstinguished.

let your light shine before all men, so that they may see your good works & glorify your father in heaven. ~the light of life~jesus christ~

12:19 a.m. est