Saturday, February 19, 2011

ECA Spirit Week

This past week was Spirit Week at ECA. What that means is that the students (and the staff) dress up according to a different theme every day. Here are some photos from the week.

The first two photos are from Princesses & Aliens Day.


The next day was "Be What You're Not" Day --



Mr. C never dresses this way. Most of the time he's in a shirt & tie and nice slacks. This was definitely what "he's not".

The next several photos are from "Denture Day". The students were to dress like their parents or grandparents. Some of the staff chose to go in the other direction.





It was a fun week and almost everyone participated to one degree or another.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Lion and the Lamb

I've been reading through John Piper's small book, "Seeing and Savoring Jesus Christ." I wanted to share part of a chapter with you.

What makes Christ glorious, as Jonathan Edwards observed over 250 years ago, is "an admirable conjunction of diverse excellencies."

For example, we admire Christ for his transcendence, but even more because the transcendence of his greatness is mixed with submission to God. We marvel at him because his uncompromising justice is tempered with mercy. His majesty is sweetened by meekness. In his equality with God he has a deep reverence for God. Though he is worthy of all good, he was patient to suffer evil. His sovereign dominion over the world was clothes with a spirit of obedience and submission. He baffled the proud scribes with his wisdom, but was simple enough to be loved by children. He could still the storm with a word, but would not strike the Samaritans with lightning or take himself down from the cross..

The glory of Christ is not a simple thing. It is a coming together in one person of extremely diverse qualities. We see it in the New Testament book of Revelation: "The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals" (5:5). Here is the triumphant lion-like Christ ready to unroll the scroll of history.

But what do we see in the next verse? "And between the throne and the four living creatures and among the elders I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain... (verse 6). So the Lion is a Lamb--an animal that is weak and harmless and lowly and easily preyed upon, and sheared naked for clothes, and killed for our food. So Christ is a lamb-like Lion.

How to Live Fulfilled (from another blog)

There's a blog that comes into my Google Reader regularly that moves me and inspires me and convicts me, almost every time I read it. There's a link to the blog in the sidebar to the right and you may have visited it before, but I wanted to share one of her posts from this past week that really spoke to me. I hope it blesses you, too.