January 2012
6 posts
APTAT - a tool to help you live
A – Admit my helplessness (John 15:5) P – Pray for help (Psalm 50:15) T – Trust a specific promise (Isaiah 66:2) A – Act with confidence in God (Isaiah 55:11) T – Thank God (I Thessalonians 5:18)
http://www.desiringgod.org/blog/posts/a-tool-to-help-you-live
Beauty in Substance and Form
I reblogged “Beastly and the Beast” awhile ago, but I had some thoughts how the issue of the beauty in substance and in form.
I thought of this in the thinking of music. Specifically of how they relate to each other. The substance (typically lyrics) and its form (all the music and such), both can be seen as beautiful, but the true beauty I would say is in its substance. Even if it is...
Reconcile ~ To reestablish a close relationship
I am riddled with everything, especially about myself. I started creating a list, but I didn’t know where to end. When I receive a true compliment I really value, I don’t know if I am truly humbled or not. I don’t know if I feel guilty or pleasure (or both?). I am often brought to just thanking God that he accomplished something out of this nothing. Maybe it is embarrassment. I...
Praise God when you see grace...
…even the small examples of it, which are present everywhere, after all, He is sovereign.
“When [Barnabas] came and saw the grace of God, he was glad, and he exhorted them all to remain faithful to the Lord with steadfast purpose” (Acts 11:23 ESV)
Listen to this sermon if you really want to hear this scripture elaborated on. The context of the scripture is specifically that...
Nothing like hiking with a solid brother.
Beastly and the Beast
ironwingicarus:
Beauty and the Beast is a wonderful story. A beautiful girl learns to see past herself to see the inner beauty of another. Very Poetic. Then she kisses him and he becomes a handsome prince. I think Shrek is more poetic, though. A beautiful woman falls in love with an Ogre, then turns into an ugly ogre. I mean our world is full of ugly people, loved by God. I think life might...
December 2011
8 posts
“The focus should be the sacrifice of Christ and how we as the church must model...”
– I don’t want to simply reblog something. I’d like to live it. Spencer (via thelisabanana)
Oh yes...
I do need the Bible, oh so badly. To remember what I am called to, to know what I came from, to hold to the only thing that’ll last: God’s word.
“We please Him most, not by frantically trying to make ourselves good, but by throwing ourselves into His arms with all our imperfections and believing that He understands everything — and loves us still.” -AW Tozer
My life to please the one I love.
Substitution
“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.” Hebrews 12:6
I was thinking of this verse, and was applying it to sin and retribution. But then I realized that Jesus has taken all my sins upon himself. The Lord disciplines us, but his wrath is forever spared,...
mmm... nothing else will satisfy.
“What we tend to win people with is what we tend to win people to.”
– Bob Kauflin
November 2011
6 posts
Happy Birthday Clive. A tribute to joy in God. →
I am finding it difficult to do what I need to do.
Why do I want to distract myself?
Actually applying the Bible hardly happens.
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
(Galatians 2:20 ESV)
Pray that I love
and out of that love that I may encourage my brothers around me.
The Problem with Fun
It is not mentioned in the Bible. If I am to be in complete love with my God, then the result is living for Jesus.That doesn’t just mean I start living my life with Biblical principles, but living with my purpose of glorifying God and furthering the kingdom. Where does fun fit in with that? Where does reading a non-edifying fiction book fall into that?
But that doesn’t sit right with...
October 2011
5 posts
It is so hard to intentionally change
This is War.
And let us not forget.
Right next door to my grandparents, a professor... →
A delightfully miserable day
It truly was miserable. I did not like yesterday. It wasn’t some difficult thing that I had to face, but I simply felt awful. And it was only because I had watched a fair amount of TV shows. Like maybe 2 or 3 hours of TV, some on Hulu, some on Netflix. It just wasn’t satisfying in the least, and it did not make me feel well. I simply did it out of habit. Due to this, I will be taking...
The Lighted Carriage and the Starlit Night
the17club:
I’m pages away from finishing a marvelous book by John Piper entitled, “Desiring God” and a few nights ago I stumbled across something tucked away in one of the book’s appendices that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about.
First, a bit of preface.
Without delving too deep, Piper defines what he calls Christian Hedonism as the way by which “God is most glorified in us when we...
September 2011
10 posts
I was just about to post just a title called, “I need to love more,” but then my autofill thing showed that I had already done that previously, which means I should maybe start praying about it, instead of just posting it randomly on tumblr.
There is nothing better than having friends visit and going to a DG conference together.
The biggest question people need to ask is whether...
From there, there are 2 possible implications.
If yes, then the implication is that you better find out what kind of God created this world. Did he create the world for some odd enjoyment of chaos, or does he have a glorious plan? Who is this God, and what does he want of us?
If not, then the implication is that life is simply without meaning. There is no implicit right or wrong. Even the laws...
Pride vs Love
Feeling better
Betrayed?
Having a teammate leave the intramural volleyball team because it wasn’t competitive enough. Do I blame him for wanting a really good team? We have a team of people with average talent, and some less than average. They lack experience. But I want to just have fun. Doesn’t mean I don’t want to win, but that isn’t what makes or breaks my enjoyment. Can I blame him for wanting...
Too busy to do life
But not to busy to eat and drink in the Word of God. Praise the Lord!
Amen!
Q: What is the Corporate Purpose of Chick-fil-A, Inc.? A: To glorify God by being a faithful steward of all that is entrusted to us. To have a positive influence on all who come in contact with Chick-fil-A. (http://www.chick-fil-a.com/FAQ/#?q=Corporate Purpose)
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August 2011
12 posts
Hallelujah
All HP touchpads are sold out in Minnesota....
Lesson from the Shrewd Manager
“…while Christians often suffer opportunities of doing good to pass unimproved; are less steady, firm, and anxious about eternal things, and thus show less wisdom. Alas! this is too true; and we cannot but reflect here how different the world would be if all Christians were as anxious, and diligent, and prudent in religious matters as others are in worldly things.”
A good year is beginning
Northwestern is an amazing place due to the amazing people.
Is your life with God or for God?
"Make straight paths for your feet" (Hebrews...
So practical and important. Seek wisdom and plan to put yourself in only situations that do not lead you into temptation, but rather away from stumbling, away from extremes. The straight and narrow is the path that we are not only supposed to follow, but the path we are to create. It isn’t just following rules, but being wise, intentional, prayerful. Knowing what can tempt us, or cause us to...
Just because we are no longer under the law,...
Deuteronomy 6:5-9 “You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign...
Repent and be heard!
God will not listen to prayers if we hold up sin. (Psalm 66:18)
How many Christians don’t know this, not necessarily this verse, but the principal that we need to be fleeing from sin, repenting and turning to God? A heart that cherishes sin will not be in attune with God.
A semi successful night of geocaching
"The joy of the Lord is your strength"
(Nehemiah 8:10) And without out it I am utterly weak.
July 2011
14 posts
The Beat Psalms: The Meaningful Man →
corycopeland:
What does it take to be a man? Is it being tall in stature? Maybe possessing a muscular might? How about having a bushy beard, smelling of pine and wearing a worn out flannel shirt? Do these things make a man? I ask because through the years, our definition has seemed to change. No longer is a man…
Good night!
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