Rev. Zach

I'm guessing most people have seen the JC Penny Back to school add? I l o v e t h i s c o m m e r c i a l ! I k n o w , i t's totally fake. I love the response on YouTube that said, "Cause everyone in Highschool is a supermodel, right?" Yeah, yeah...but it's just fun. I like the idea of people being confident enough to strut their stuff and not care what others think. I don't think that's what they are really selling here. They're selling the idea that you aren't, but you could be. The song is good too, and they picked the one line that suites their cause. "Everybody's watching but nobody cares." That's good marketing, but it doesn't do the song justice. I go to church and I'm expected to be lost soul They need examples to use I could stay forever leave right now It's your call either way It's time to use my life for myself (most people just won't tell you that) I'm gona use my life for som...

Sermon Preached at Skidaway Island Presbyterian Church on August 9, 2009 Romans 12:1-2 2 Corinthians 5:16-20 Luke 15:1-7 Focus, clarity, truth… It is part of our human nature to seek these things above all else. Often we tell ourselves that we have them as though they are things to own. Often it seems the world would be a better place if people could just accept “the facts of life” or at least have some “common sense.” The reality is that our ability to live balanced, sensible lives is directly effected by the choices of others. Not only that, the choices we make are not as limited as we want to think that they are. So we live in this messy space where we have a certain responsibility for our own actions… where we are responsible for the impact we have on others… where we are affected by the actions and ideas of others we cannot control. God is here too, you know. God willingly enters into this place out of genuine love and compassion. It is because of God’s love that we know h...