As I’ve been mucking about with my scanner and a bunch of old photos, I’ve signed myself up to a photoblog page where I can put them all. I have no idea why the site is called ‘aminus3′ – they’re really cryptic and mystical about it, which hints to me that the domain they wanted was already taken so they settled for something less.

Anyway, it’s got quite a nice design to it as far as photo sites go (entirely unlike the awful flickr.com, which is useful but hurts your eyes a little). There’s easy links to other people’s photos, many of which are very good.

The idea is that you post a new image each day. We’ll see how long that lasts.

I just had these videos on youtube pointed out to me. They’re rip-offs of the Mac-vs-PC television ads, between a ‘Christian’ and a ‘Christ-follower’.

There are 6 of them, and some of them are pretty good. My favourite bit? The ‘emerging church cult culture’.

I’ve just managed to get my scanner working, and I’ve been going through a couple of old photo albums.

This is Elsinore Castle, in the rotten state of Denmark (it’s not actually the one from Hamlet – it was built after the play was written, but it hasn’t stopped them cashing in on the tourist dollar). It was taken back in 2001.

I was just going over a sermon I’m giving tomorrow at church.

At one point I talk about church culture and tradition, and how at points it may be right to go against tradition for the purpose of actually engaging with Jesus. The context is Jesus being Lord of the Sabbath, and how even the rules laid down by religious tradition over what constituted ‘work’ on the Sabbath do not compare to the one who is far bigger and of more consequence.

So in my practice run through my sermon, I was talking about how the Sabbath was such an important thing, the most detailed of the ten commandments, and here is Jesus saying that he’s ‘more significant than even the Sabbath, the sacred cow of the ten commandments…’

I might try to avoid that one tomorrow.

There’s another line in the Spiderman movies that rings out again and again: “With great power comes great responsibility”.

This was another line that made me think.

One of the things about the gospel, the message of Jesus, is that it is a powerful message. But to anyone who has heard it, there is something of a responsibility placed on them as to how they then live their lives.

There’s a section in Luke that talks about the responsibility that comes with knowledge. Specifically, there’s a responsibility that comes with knowledge about God, about the judgement to come, about Jesus’ identity as Lord.

The phrase is “From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded”. So if you’re reading this and you’ve heard the story of Jesus, you know all about what he did, you know what happened to him and why the Bible says what it does, and you’ve not really made any kind of commitment to do anything about it, this part of the Bible comes as a bit of a warning. Make sure you think it through, have a read of the Bible, work out if what it says about Jesus is trustworthy, and then work out how you’re living your life.

Because the word about Jesus is powerful. It’s God’s words. And with great power comes great responsibility.