music, emergent churches, reading, cooking, football, baseball, church planting, and hanging out with friends and family.
Music
Style: Jazz, Blues, Rock, Classical, I am hesitant to say Worship because it's not the "churchy" kind of sound... But the new sound of Worship music.
Artists: Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Hillsong United, the newer Hillsong, U2, Delirious?, Switchfoot, David Crowder, Collective Soul, Third Eye Blind, The Wallflowers, The All-American Rejects, Audioslave, Coldplay, Jet, New York Dolls, etc... the list is endless, but you get the idea.
Movies
Comedy, Drama, Psychological thrillers, and Action (does that cover it all?)
Television
We don't really have a whole lot of time for t.v. but when we do watch, we watch: The Office, The Unit, CSI (this is must see in the Hudson home), Extreme Makeover Home Edition (have to get a good cry in), and of course we HAVE to watch the infomercials... I mean come on. What is life without those? whatever
Books
WAY too many to list! We are Mr. and Mrs. Bookworm. However, the one book that is kicking both of our buttocks areas rather hard is John Piper's "Don't Waste Your Life". Jeremy is currently working his way through Brian McLaren's "A Generous Orthodoxy"
Heroes
Friends and family!! What's life without that?
Keith Green who said two of our absolute FAVORITE quotes:
"The only music minister to whom the Lord will say, 'Well done, thy good and faithful servant,' is the one whose life proves what their lyrics are saying, and to whom music is the least important part of their life. Glorifying the only worthy One has to be a minister's most important goal!"
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"I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music, and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely to Jesus!"
John Wesley who said,
"I set myself on fire, and people come to watch me burn."
Brennan Manning who said,
"...the ego fattens on holiness just as much as on worldliness, on poverty as on riches, on austerity as on luxury. There is nothing the ego will not seize upon to inflate itself."
Paris Reidhead who said,
"I've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the Lord Jesus, get inside the trunk, slam the lid down, whisper through the keyhole, 'Lord look, fill'r up with anything you want and you drive, it's up to you from now on.'"
The Moravian slaves/missionaries who cried out,
"May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward of His suffering."
The vision is Jesus - obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people. You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism. They laugh at 9-5 little prisons. They could eat caviar on Monday and crust on Tuesday. They wouldn't even notice.
They are mobile like the wind; they belong to the nations. They need no passport. People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence. They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and the dirty and the dying.
What is the Vision? The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry. It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars. It scorns the good and strains for the best.
It is dangerously pure. Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation. It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.This is an army that will lay its life for the cause. A million times a day its soldiers choose to lose that they might one day win the great "Well Done, faithful sons and daughters." Such heroes are as radical on Monday mornings as Sunday night. They don't need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards and hear the crowds chanting again and again, "Come on!"
And the army is disciplined. Young people who beat their bodies into
submission. Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms. The tattoo on their back boasts, "For me to live is Christ and to die is gain."
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes. Winners. Martyrs.
Who can stop them? Can hormones hold them back? Can failure succeed?
Can fear scare them or death kill them? And the generation PRAYS like a dying man with groans beyond talking, with warrior cries, sulfurous tears and with great barrow loads of laughter! Whatever it takes, they will give.
Breaking the rules. Shaking the mediocrity from its cozy little hide. Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials. The advertisers cannot mold them. Hollywood cannot hold them. Peer pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries. They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive inside. On the outside? They hardly care. They wear clothes like a costume to communicate and celebrate but never to hide. Would they surrender
their image or popularity? They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell. An electric chair for a throne. With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days, They pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.
Their DNA chooses Jesus. He breathes out, they breathe in. Their
subconscious sings. They've had a blood transfusion with Jesus. Their words make demons scream in shopping centers. Don't you hear them coming? Herald the weirdos! Summon the losers and the freaks. Here comes the frightened and forgotten with the fire in their eyes. They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden. And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon. How do I know? Because this is the longing of creation itself, the groaning of the Spirit, the very dream of God. My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D. And my feeble whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking "Amen!" from countless angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ himself. And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner. Guaranteed. "The words of 'The Vision' got written late one night on the wall
of the first ever 24-7 Prayer Room. 'It wasn't a big deal', says
Pete Greig, '... just a very personal thing - trying to work out
the call on my life and why I was awake at 3AM praying when
sane people are all tucked up in bed!'
Doo doo de doo waaaa doo de doo! (<-- That's you playing something.) Everyone appreciates the band/orchestra geeks and the pretty voices. Whether you sing in the choir, participate in a school/local band, or sit at home writing music, you contribute a joy to society that everyone can agree on. Yay! Welcome to actually doing something for poor, pathetic human souls. (Just kidding.)
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You have the power to persuade and influence others.
You're the type of person who can turn a whole room around.
The potential for great leadership is there, as long as you don't abuse it.
Always remember, you have a lot more power over people than you might think!
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You have the natural talent of rocking the boat, thwarting the system.
And while this may not seem big, it can be.
It's people like you who serve as the catalysts to major cultural changes.
You're just a bit behind the scenes, so no one really notices.
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Y'know.....I kept thinking last night - what if what I'm giving isn't enough? what if there's some hidden part of me that doesn't realize that God is my all? It's time for a cleaning... I hope it's not painful!
okay, i added you guys to my "prefered list" on my blog, so you have access to my privates. read "just an idea" for more info on how im going to make a million dollars by 2015.
hey jeremy i know i owe you money from my last crazy venture, but i have this killer idea for a web business i wanna run by you. it could put us up in those big fancy houses we've only heard about. i told mom and dan about it over lunch last weekend. im telling you, this could be the big one. message me if u wanna at least hear me out. ;)
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