I was suggested by Mustard Seed Associates Alternative Calendar that today (December, 28), we remember the innocent martys killed by Herod when he tried to kill Jesus Christ. This was the first time I ever know about this day. The most dramatic words came from prophecy told by Jeremiah:
I was listening to a Brazilian journalist in August who was comparing numbers of the violence in Iraq and in Rio de Janeiro[1]. Rio de Janeiro is one among 26 States in the Federation. The rate of killings was higher in Rio de Janeiro than in Iraq in the beginning of 2008. As he was saying, according to the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count website, from January to May 3458 Iraqis – both militaries and civilians – were killed. For the same period in Rio de Janeiro, according to official records from the Secretaria de Segurança Pública, there were 2441 homicides, 87 deaths by thievery, 17 episodes of bodily harm followed by death and 6 policemen killed in action, yielding a total of 2551 assassinations. Considering that the population of Iraq is twice bigger than that of Rio de Janeiro, one can say that Brazilian’s death toll is higher than Iraq’s.
In the Gospels, Jesus, who was poor and lived as poor, summarizes his ministry as he reads the book of Isaiah in the Synagogue:
"'The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favour.'" (Luke 4.18,19)
Indeed, in the Kingdom described by Jesus, the poor and those who hunger are happy. The ministry of Jesus was full of miracles in favour of the marginalized by the society of the day.
They have been in lot of countries and even countries with a very small Christian witness, this year they will be presenting on Poland, Lebanon, Turkey, Croatia, Finland and Iceland.
You might have an idea of No Longer Music presentation in the video below.
You will find most of the interviews made in this blog tour, it sarted with Andrew Jones (TallSkinnyKiwi) on May 28th, I performed the second leg in May 31st and Steve Kinght (Knightopia) closed this tour on June 2nd
Last week we had great moments with the visitation of Spencer Burke to São Paulo, it all started with an interview we made with him on March and after, we started to talk about a possibility of doing Soularize in São Paulo, so we received him from May 15th until 18th when he could take good pictures, and have a good idea of the emergent conversation in Brazil, also we could foster great conversations with friends and could promote a gathering last Saturday on Projeto 242.
If you would like to know how it was, we have streamed mostly of the Saturday gathering and we have them recorded, our session was both in English and in Portuguese, so you might listen and see what happened on video:
Last week we had great moments with the visitation of Spencer Burke to São Paulo, it all started with an interview we made with him on March and after, we started to talk about a possibility of doing Soularize in São Paulo, so we received him from May 15th until 18th when he could take good pictures, and have a good idea of the emergent conversation in Brazil, also we could foster great conversations with friends and could promote a gathering last Saturday on Projeto 242.