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Amanda and I got home tonight from her office Christmas party to find Rob Bell’s “Everything is Spiritual” DVD placed delicately and balanced on the doorknob on the outside of our house. I do have an idea of how it might have gotten there. Maybe the person who bought me Rob Bell’s book “Velvet Elvis” was the culprit. Maybe not.

My plans for going straight to bed just got changed.

I opened the DVD and headed for the living room where I unwrapped and opened the DVD case. With a remote control in one hand and a blanket in the other I started the DVD.

In this hour and seventeen minute teaching time my eyes were opened to the complexities of nature and how it all relates to God. Rob opened his talk with the words “In the beginning God.” If you are familiar with that phrase you’ll remember it comes from the opening lines to God’s book, specifically Genesis. Rob points out the patterns and the details of what’s going on in these few verses and how they all relate to each other, the rest of the Bible, God, the universe, and us. My head is still spinning from the teaching and I must say I want to watch it again just to get anything I might have missed. On that note, anybody want to watch it with me?

I highly suggest watching it to anyone who wants new insights to how God made us and everything else with such thought and balance. After watching this it is hard to deny a Creator. As Proverbs says and Rob quotes “The fool says in his heart, ‘God does not exist.’ They are corrupt; their actions are revolting. There is no one who does good.”

A couple things on Rob Bell… He is the founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has written a couple books, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith and Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality And Spirituality. He also has a video teaching series called NOOMA that tackles many topics from forgiveness to serving to being a disciple.

If you just want to buy it for yourself, you can get it at everythingisspiritual.com or through other online retailers like Amazon.

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