February 2012
11 posts
Ezekiel 37.
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
-2 Corinthians 4:16-18
The world sees dry...
"7 Worst International Aid Ideas" →
joychoi:
“[T]he TOMS campaign… misses the fundamental point that not having a pair of shoes (or a shirt, christmas toy, etc.) is not a problem about not having shoes. It’s a problem of poverty. Shoelessness, such as it is, is a symptom of a much bigger and more complex problem. And while donating a pair of shoes helps shoelessness, it does not help poverty.
Things like jobs help poverty. Jobs...
Do you love me?
15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” 16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third...
Worldly advice?
39 [Jesus] also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit? 40 A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. 41 Why do you see the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? 42 How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck...
Leggings and such?
I don’t like leggings and anything similar to them. It’s okay to have something cover it like shorts and such but I have a problem when it’s the only thing a girl is wearing.
Ladies, I know God has blessed you with beautiful bodies but that does not mean you need to show the whole world the curves of your hips and tushies. It honestly hinders a lot of brothers and we...
Long rant.
First of all, I believe all women are beautiful.
I’m not going to give you cliche nonsense and lie to you if I didn’t truly believe this. Neither will God. Besides, the whole world is already doing that.
All women (humans in general) are made in God’s image and as far as I know, He doesn’t make anything ugly or sub-par (Psalm 139). I believe God has defined beauty to...
I have decided.
I think I’m going to write some entries regarding certain aspects of culture and society (particularly relating to a college student) that bother me.
Here We Go…
January 2012
7 posts
“You can have no greater sign of confirmed pride than when you think you are...”
– William Law, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (via shinyoung)
Mmm.
Stubbornness and self-will will always stab Jesus Christ. Every time we stand on our own rights and insist that this is what we intend to do, we are persecuting Him. And when we finally understand that it is Jesus we have been persecuting all this time, it is the most crushing revelation ever.
All I do should be based on a perfect oneness with Him, not on a self-willed determination to be godly....
There’s only One church in Boston.
Sigh.
1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having...
2012.
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins—and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins.”
A new year.
More Trials.
More Tribulations.
But more Grace to get through it all.
:}
December 2011
6 posts
Don't you know?
Angels and Demons are fighting for Your Soul.
12For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.13Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.
Home.
Until I die I’ll sing these songs, On the shores of Babylon, Still looking for a home, In a world where I belong.
And when I reach the other side, I want to look you in the eye, And know that I’ve arrived, In a world where I belong.
14For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they...
The season of Advent.
2 The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shined.
6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace
Rejoice, Rejoice. Emmanuel is here.
Selah. :}
Yes.
When I say … “I am a Christian” I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’.” I’m whispering “I was lost, Now I’m found and forgiven.” When I say … “I am a Christian” I don’t speak of this with pride. I’m confessing that I stumble and need Christ to be my guide. When I say … “I am a...
What can wash away our sins?
Nothing but the Blood.
Nothing but His Love.
Ephesians 2.
November 2011
14 posts
There's something wrong.
Brothers. Stop hunting your sisters. They’re not prey. They’re not objects. They’re Daughters of the Most High God. Don’t talk to her like that. Don’t treat her like that. Think about who her Father is the next time you look at her. You’re just a man. Jesus is THE man. Manhood is through Him and Him alone.
Sisters, please don’t stumble your brothers. We...
Beware Romantic Pornography →
thebeautyoffall:
“That’s where the pornography comes in. Just as sexual pornography twists an understanding for men about real women’s bodies and sexual appetites, so romantic pornography twists the perception for women about real men and how they “ought” to behave toward women, which tends to amount to, well, behaving like a woman”
- Betsy Hart
Focal Point.
Break away from your personal concern over your own spiritual condition, and with a completely open spirit consider the Cross.
Pay attention to the external Source and the internal power will be there. We lose power because we don’t focus on the right thing. The effect of the Cross is salvation, sanctification, healing, etc., but we are not to preach any of these. We are to preach “Jesus Christ...
All I want to do is Worship.
For all of my days,
In all of my ways,
May You be my Praise.
Meh.
People change.
and it kinda sucks,
a lot.
We want to escape childhood only to reach another level of immaturity, finally realizing that childlike is different from childish.
Sigh,
The way things were when we were just kids…
This is for You.
Persevere.
He is worth
the tears,
the scars,
the doubts,
and the insecurities.
He’s redeeming everything;
even You.
18And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord,[f] are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.
- 2 Corinthians 3:18
Maranatha.
Holy Spirit come.
Fill every crack.
Fill every crevice.
FIll every void in my heart.
“And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave...
On sand or on stone?
And when the winds blow and the storms come, will your house stand?
Good Words.
-Don’t act like “they” need the gospel and salvation.
Act like You do and live like You do.
-Don’t pursue different, Let different pursue You.
Be Faithful. Be Genuine. Be Obedient. And You will be different.
DSK
The Unrivaled Power of Prayer.
We realize that we are energized by the Holy Spirit for prayer; and we know what it is to pray in accordance with the Spirit; but we don’t often realize that the Holy Spirit Himself prays prayers in us which we cannot utter ourselves. When we are born again of God and are indwelt by the Spirit of God, He expresses for us the unutterable.
The Spirit of God uses the nature of the believer as a...
Dreams...?
17 “‘And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions,and your old men shall dream dreams;
18Even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy.
19And I will show wonders in the heavens above and...
Date a Guy Who Loves Jesus →
Date the guy who has his heart set on having God’s heart. Date a guy who’s captured by Christ.
There’s nothing more beautiful than seeing that strong man that you’ve known melt in compassion and reverence in the presence of God. To see him fall to his knees, with tears in his eyes and hands held high, without a care to the world watching him. But you will notice, this guy’s got something.
Date...
October 2011
18 posts
Faith.
Faith in active opposition to common sense is mistaken enthusiasm and narrow-mindedness, and common sense in opposition to faith demonstrates a mistaken reliance on reason as the basis for truth.
Nothing that Jesus Christ ever said is common sense, but is revelation sense, and is complete, whereas common sense falls short.
Faith always works in a personal way, because the purpose of God is to...
It's a question of obedience.
24 ”No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
Obey or Disobey. Everyone has to choose.
Date a Girl Who Loves Jesus... →
Date a girl who loves Jesus. Date a girl who would rather stay at home reading Scripture on a Friday night than be out partying with a group of friends. She has issues with space because her shelves are overflowing with the works of Lewis, Edwards, Spurgeon, Piper and more. Date a girl who spends her money on others instead of clothes and other frivolous things.
Find a girl who’s passionate...
And all of you I see, generations in need,
Of a...
To whom it may concern.
Guard your heart.
People are trying to take it,
Temptation wants to distract it,
And the enemy desires to destroy it.
But God finds it precious and beautiful. Won’t you wait for Him?
Please.
Mmm, how relevant...
Prayer does not equip us for greater works— prayer is the greater work. Yet we think of prayer as some commonsense exercise of our higher powers that simply prepares us for God’s work.
Prayer is the battle, and it makes no difference where you are. However God may engineer your circumstances, your duty is to pray. Never allow yourself this thought, “I am of no use where I am,” because you...
Reconciliation.
Lord God Almighty, you are beforehand with men for you have reconciled yourself to the world through the cross, and beseech men to accept reconciliation. It is my responsibility to grasp your overtures of grace, for if you, the offended part, act first with the word of appeasement, I need not call in question you willingness to save, but must deplore my own foolish maliciousness. You...
As a church, what do we believe?
Jesus is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the...
Late Night Musing...
And with my fickle heart, let it be
Compromise would cease in regard to Thee.
