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