Exciting, though sad story
02 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
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I heard today of a story of a Pakistani minister who knew that he was going to be killed due to his beliefs. In fact, he trusted in the Lord so much that he made a video four months before his death, declaring boldly his love for Jesus Christ, despite the rules of the government, in which he worked.
He wanted his testimony to reach the world and change hearts. I pray that his story does not fall on deaf ears, but strengthens the hearts and minds of those longing for God’s love. May it show those who hate so vehemently that love can change even the heart of stone!
Read the article and watch the clip. I was amazed.
Hate or Love?
08 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
in Discussions, Summer Missions Tags: Christ, friend, love, street preacher
I saw something that irked me today. I was on campus, simpl
y walking to the bus stop after class to go home, when I saw a crowd in the Tate courtyard and many students staring. I looked over to see a man on the platform, yelling at the group of students before him. I couldn’t even understand what it was he was saying- just that he was yelling. I saw as I walked that there was a young girl at the bottom of the platform talking intensely to him, as if she was trying to reason with him, but I couldn’t hear what she said at all because of the distance that separated us.
I couldn’t understand all of what the man’s response was to whatever she had said, only that it was something to the effect of: ” Well, if you spoke to the lost as much as you’re flapping your tongue right now, you might be a decent Christian!” Then not five seconds later, the man said to the guy standing next to the young woman, “Well, boyfriend, are you a fornicator?”
Visual Rhetoric: Not a new idea
23 Jan 2009 Leave a Comment
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As I was reading about visual rhetoric and the way how pictures are used to communicate different messages, I couldn’t help but think that none of this was new to me. I haven’t taken any advertising or sociology classes, but I have taken art history and I took art throughout high school. Therefore, trying to convey a message through a picture comes naturally to me, similar to common sense. I remember critiquing artwork in my classes; I had to try and analyze a piece of work and work to see what specific message it was sending me- something hard to do at times. For example, what would say a painting of just squares and striaght lines means to you? I know it’s a cliche, but the phrase “A picture is worth a thousand words” is true. However,no two people will pickthe exact same thousand words to describe a piece of art. Pictures of any typeare fundamentally art, and art has no definition and never speaks the same way to two people. But communicating through pictures is something that the human race has been doing since the dawn of time; go back to cave drawingsand you’ll see similar characteristics that you see in visual rhetoric today. Therefore, the idea of visual rhetoric is not new, but it may simply be that the art form has been brought to light due to the increasing use and dependency on technology and the speed that come with it. I believe the convenience of this technology allows us to view more visual rhetoric in a shorter period of time, and it is the shear amount of rhetoric that we see that causes us to stop and think about what it is we are looking at.
Hello world!
17 Jan 2009 1 Comment
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It is a new day when I figure out blogging on my own. There is much more to websites than I thought possible!
