Blue Like Jazz.

After being recommended this book by a lot of people I know, I was excited finally get my hands on a copy and read it. I always appreciate books that "reignite" or flam e the passions that I have. Last year I began to really fall in love with the person of Jesus. Who He was, the kind of person the Bible says He is, not the meek and mild Jesus everyone has always told me about.

I first began to see how much of a revolutionary Jesus was when I was watching a video podcast by Mark Driscoll about the humanity of Jesus. He was a person. He ate, slept, cried, threw things and laughed, which, basically sums up my day sometimes. We get so caught up in this idea we have of a tall man with baby blue eyes and flowy brown hair that we don't remember who the Jesus of the Bible is. He wasn't meek and mild and passive. He turned tables over to get his point across. He cast out demons from people into a pack of pigs that jumped off a cliff. He spat in dirt to make it mud then smeared it over a blind person's eyes and they were healed. He said He was God in a society where you just would NEVER do that.

Which picture of Jesus do we have? The cute and cuddly baby all bundled up in a manger? Or, the man who looked into the face of the man who put him to death and said He was God?