October 2011
1 post
Augustine's take on "Practicing what you preach"
Now these men do good to many by preaching what they themselves do not perform; but they would do good to very many more if they lived as they preach. For there are numbers who seek an excuse for their own evil lives in comparing the teaching with the conduct of their instructors, and who say in their hearts, or even go a little further, and say with their lips: Why do you not do yourself what...
May 2011
7 posts
You have redeemed my soul From the pit of...
April 2011
6 posts
“Theology is how we move from the text of Scripture to how we should live our...”
– Michael Lawrence, Biblical Theology In the Life of the Church, pg.14
“Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is...”
– Ecclesiastes 7:8 (ESV)
“Beware of an ambition for mere numbers: a small body of well-instructed, earnest...”
– H. Harvey, 1879
March 2011
8 posts
“For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training...”
– Titus 2:11-14 (via brennanstevens)
“A wretched sinner, I was. Now a saint, by your blood.”
We're quick to address self-demoting sins and slow...
This thought just occurred to me as I was shaving tonight…We (Christians) are quick to address and fight against those sins that damage our reputation and image. Sins that affect how people perceive us, what we are known for, and how people talk about us. But do we show the same attention to those sins that actually promote us? I’d argue NO. We tend to reserve those sins to be...
“The only true worship is worship of the only true God. All else is idolatry.”
– Deut. 5:7; Isaiah 7:10-16; 11:1-5; Luke 4:1-8; John 5:18-46; 10:22-42; 14:1-11
Oh, Mercy
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. For judgement is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.
James 2:12-13 (ESV)
Amen
Jesus was not postmodern
If he was… he would not have rebuked the Pharisees for living the way they did, because who really can tell anyone how to live in a postmodern world?
If he was… he would not have fashioned a whip and driven out the moneychangers and merchants in the Temple, because who could really say they were doing something wrong in a postmodern world?
If he was… he would never have made an...
February 2011
9 posts
“The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“This life therefore is not righteousness
but growth in righteousness;
not...”
– Martin Luther
good morning grace
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
his mercies never come to an end;
they are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.
- Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV)
“Integrity is not legalistic, it is Christ-like”
“But I trust in you, O LORD;
I say, ‘You are my God’”
– Psalm 31:14
think Puritan prayers are boring? think again
i have never read more lively, vivid, colorful language that expresses a deeply rooted love and knowledge of God.
biblical. articulate. expressive. creative. honest. inspiring.
here is an excerpt from a prayer titled “the love of Jesus”:
my heart melts at the love of Jesus, my brother, bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh, married to me, dead for me, risen for me;
he is mine and i...
January 2011
11 posts
“its not the cross that saves, its the Man who came and wore it, and He wore it...”
– Mike Mains and the Branches - Stereo (via nrunyan)
“Worship without theology is sentimental and weak. Theology without worship is...”
– Ken Lewis
apparently inherent
i oftentimes find myself caught between two worlds. an ambassador to one from the other. a mediator between two contending ideologies.
i feel like a translator of two dialects of the same language…two dialects that oftentimes intend the same thing, while sounding entirely foreign to the other.
i have spoken both dialects in my own life. these dialects are not disjoint, as they may appear....
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be...”
– Matthew 5:6 (ESV)
a poem by jonathan wilson
I passed by a horse and he watched until he was bored
then he turned his attention to his stomach and what more he could absorb
and Lord aren’t I the same?
widening my view from the gate to the plain
My master called me to freedom and I settled for grain
Isn’t the world this way?
fighting for security and happiness that’s fake
I took that path but came back to claim
if you don’t become...
“Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy...”
– Psalm 20:6-8 (via dustinraley)
sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same
June 2010
1 post
no, it's not a nikon or canon...it's a samsung
today, around noon, i went by my grandparents’ home to water their plants in their yard. about halfway through, i came across a rose bush in their back yard. it was a large bush, so i spent a little more time giving the bush the water it needed.
now, i don’t claim to have thought of something original, or even too profound, but as i stood there staring at the bush i noticed something...
this week is not going to be fun...
i am dreading this week, because I’m not accustomed to getting up at 6:45 each morning and working 9 hours and then helping with VBS at church for a couple of hours afterwards…. for 5 days in a row. This is going to be very challenging, but I think it’ll be worth it in the end. By the way, Clemson once again demonstrated that they just aren’t a tournamet team by losing the...
Is this the adult Xanga???
Well, I feel like blogs are pretty sweet things…. things may not be the word I’m looking for, perhaps “obsessions” is the term. I refused to get obsessed with twitter because there hardly was any content to it. I also feel like facebook is nowhere to have deep discussions, so tumblr looks like a legit area for thought and responses. I am also excited to get informed with my...