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NOOMA 020 | Shells
From the guys at Nooma…
We’ll be streaming NOOMA 020 | Shells on the NOOMA Facebook Group page from Monday, May 19th at 12 noon EST to Wednesday, May 21st at 12 noon EST.
NOOMA 020 | Shells will be available at NOOMA.com on Monday, May 19th and will ship on or before June 10th. This film will also be available soon in retail stores and through many of your favorite online retailers.
Thanks for watching and inviting your friends to preview our newest film in the Rob Bell series of NOOMA.
Do you often find yourself saying, “I’m so busy” or “I just have so much to do”? It’s easy to get overwhelmed with appointments, gatherings, to-do lists. But what are we really doing with our time? Many of us are running from place to place and it seems like life is just passing us by. We’re doing so many things, a little bit of everything, and yet it doesn’t feel like much of a life. But most of us find it hard to say no. We feel obligated. There are so many good things to do. So many good causes to join. But while we’re busy doing all these good things, are we missing out on something great? Maybe saying no would be easier if we knew what it meant to say yes.
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(ht: Missio Dei)
Review: The God’s Aren’t Angry
I can’t say I’ve ever been to anything like this before. Which only makes me appreciate what Rob Bell is doing all the more. For three guys to hop in a car and drive 2.5 hours one way to hear basically a story we’ve all known for years says something about his appeal. Rob has a style about him, engaging stage presence, and a gift for story-telling. Last night was well worth the time.
The stage began black with a blue light shining down on an alter. When it was go time, the stage lit up and Rob entered. He allowed the crowd to applause, even acknowledging them with an applause of his own. Then he began to tell a story. And he continued that story for the next 100 minutes.
Rob took us down paths of cavemen and cavewomen, chronicled the histories of ancient gods, and told stories of people acting the same today as they did thousands of years ago. But he also told stories of people stepping out and embracing the new reality. The fact that we no longer have to live in fear and trepidation, wondering if we are appeasing the gods, because there is a God that actually stepped into our existence and not only said he doesn’t need our blessings, but in fact wants to bless us.
Some would call that good news.
Rob wrapped it up by telling a quick series of instances in which people were living out that new reality. Stories of love and mercy and acceptance. He hammered them home as his trademark music (á la Nooma) started playing in the background. He ended by blessing us with a benediction.
It was a great night and I didn’t look at my watch once. I love a good story told well. Especially one that’s true and offers that sort of hope. You can truly come out of that one saying Love Wins.
Donald Miller + Mars Hill
One of my favorite authors, Donald Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and Searching For God Knows What, will be speaking at Mars Hill Bible Church this Sunday. Mars Hill being the church that Rob Bell (speaker on the Nooma series) is the pastor of. They are located in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
They have three identical gatherings on Sundays — 9am, 11am & 6pm.
I’m pretty sure it’s short notice to get many (if any) to drive up there with me for a morning service, but perhaps we can get a group for the 6pm service.
Anyone interested???
Nooma 018 – Name
The latest installment of Rob Bell’s popular NOOMA film series will be released on Monday, November 5. But fans of the series are being treated again to an exclusive web preview of the film on NOOMA’s MySpace page.
The new film, Name, can be seen in its entirety beginning today, and will be available only until noon tomorrow.
BTW, my name is Russell Hawkins.
Be Today
The latest installment of Rob Bell’s popular NOOMA film series will be released at the end of this month. But fans of the series are being treated to an exclusive web preview of the film on NOOMA’s MySpace page.
The new film, Today, can be seen in its entirety beginning today, and will be available only until Wednesday, July 25.
I’ve seen and loved every NOOMA, but this one is already my favorite. It’s so convicting, and so inspirational. BE TODAY!
(ht: Shane Bertou)
013 Rich
There’s a popular bumper sticker that reads “God Bless America,” but hasn’t America already been blessed? It’s easy for us to fall into a mindset of viewing “our” world as “the” world, because it’s all we generally see. We’re constantly bombarded with images of the latest styles and models of everything, and it can easily leave us feeling like what we have isn’t enough because we see people that have even more than us. But how does what we have compare to what most people in the world have? Maybe what we have is enough; maybe it’s more than enough. Maybe God has blessed us with everything we have so we can bless and give to others.
012 Matthew
Suffering the loss of someone we love can be the most difficult thing in life to deal with. One moment we have them and the next they’re gone. What are we supposed to do? How are we supposed to feel? The truth is, there’s no certain way we’re “supposed” to feel. Whatever we’re feeling, it’s okay. It’s okay to feel shock, anger, denial or whatever we may feel. It’s okay. And if we don’t feel anything at all, that’s okay too. It’s okay to have no answers and no explanations. Because sometimes all the reasoning and comforting words in the world just isn’t what we need. What might help us however is to understand how Jesus dealt with this kind of loss.
011 Rhythm
What does it mean to have a relationship with God? What does it look like? For a lot of us it’s a hard thing to fully understand. If God is an infinite spirit with no shape or form, how can we possibly relate to that? And what about Jesus? He said he came to give everyone life in its fullest. He came to show us how to live. Maybe it’s through trusting Jesus and living the kind of life he taught us to live – a life of truth, love, justice, compassion, forgiveness, and sacrifice – that we have a relationship with God. Maybe the way we live every day, every single choice we make, determines how in tune with God we are.
010 Lump
A lot of us have done things in our lives that we’re ashamed of. Some are small things, and some of us have really big and devastating things. Some of us even have things that people close to us don’t know about. Personal junk that we keep to ourselves so we don’t have to deal with it. Because we don’t know how to deal with it, do we? We’re afraid that if we try it’s just going to make everything worse. But no matter how big our junk is, no matter how much what we’ve done has impacted the way other people feel about us or how we feel about ourselves, it hasn’t changed how God feels about us. God loves us, he always has and always will, and there’s nothing we can do to change that.
009 Bullhorn
God loves everyone, so a Christian should, too. In fact, Jesus said that the most important thing in life is to love God with everything we’ve got and love others the same way. But it’s not always easy to love everyone around us, is it? Sometimes we strongly disagree with other people’s political views, religious beliefs, behaviors, or something else, and it makes it hard to love them when we feel like we’re right and they’re very wrong. But Jesus doesn’t separate loving God and loving others. So maybe the best way for us to show our love for God is actually by loving other people no matter how hard it sometimes is. Maybe it’s the only way.
