janvier 2012
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mikeclevenger:
Sermons should be expositions of scripture, not motivational speeches with biblical overtones.
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“Faith is seeing the invisible, but not the non-existent.” a.w. tozer
“In many churches Christianity has been watered down until the solution is so weak that if it were poison it would not hurt anyone, and if it were medicine it would not cure anyone!” a.w.tozer
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield (via kari-shma)
lead-me-to-the-truth:
Sometimes i just want to thank God for my heartbeat. I don’t believe God gives heartbeats to useless things.
thatthereishope:
“Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8. Because thinking about other things just isn’t worth the trouble.
“Laws enforced by the sword control behavior but cannot change hearts, no matter...”
– Greg Boyd, Myth of a Christian Nation (via dancewmoonlight)
mikeclevenger:
The recovery of the church does not depend on a new breed of theological mechanics who can tune the old evangelical engine up.. Scholarship is good, particularly theological scholarship, when it stays on its knees.
Leonard Ravenhill, In Light of Eternity
i think it’s not given nearly enough focus that as Christians we’re supposed to renew our minds daily. i feel like there are tons of Christians who get this burst of inspiration to change the world, and when it doesn’t happen within the first 6 months, they lose their momentum and stumble and end up giving up. the Christian life is a race, but it is not a sprint. it’s not...
I think it’s really cool how in the story of the tower of babel, the people tried to use their own efforts and wisdom to construct a building to reach God, because now we can see the problems with that, such as a physical building would end up in space before it could reach “heaven,” resulting in the deaths of everyone climbing up. Also, it has never been by our own efforts that...
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so last week my motherboard failed on my computer, and today my new (used) computer finally arrived. i’ve missed tumblr.
ebay: the camera i wanted was 15.00 i refreshed the page 5 minutes later and it was 50.00 …there’s still nearly a day left on it
Theology Without Doxology
jspark3000:
“The ultimate goal of theology isn’t knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud, which is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung!”
— Sam Storms (via derekthornton)
knowledge should be the means to an...
Spread wide in the arms of Christ There’s a love that covers sin No greater love have I ever known; You considered me a friend Capture my heart again
Jesus replied, “And you experts in the law, woe to you, because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry, and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them. Jesus didn’t just say “because you load people down with burdens they can hardly carry.” He added “and you yourselves will not lift one finger to help them.” we have no guarantee that God...
“God is writing it out, sometimes with a heavy pen; but when complete, it’ll read...”
– Spurgeon (via iamthedesperate)
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spending new year’s eve alone, reading a book about a meteorite hitting san fransisco and leveling the entire city two days before an astroid hits spain and breaks the entire world into three pieces, killing everyone except a few people on a space ship who turn on each other and start killing each other.
décembre 2011
“You have to take it minute by minute,” Mo’Steel answered. “People mess up...”
– k.a. applegate, remnants
“If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to...”
– Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: How I Learned to Live a Better Story (via giovannypanginda)
“The Bible is not a rule book; it is a narrative.”
– N.T. Wright (via firstbreath90)
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are...”
– C.S. Lewis (via classyliving)
“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly...”
– Tom Robbins (via littletangerine)
a thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices...
Diego Calquin: Discourse about Christmas I,... →
ridiculousmess:
Here comes the time of the year when we remember the miracle of incarnation. There is a lot we can see: the paradox of the Infinite being finite, the union between God and humanity, humility, self-giving; Love.
It is so easy to lose focus with so much going on in this world; Christmas is…
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“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel’-which means, ‘God with us.’
“We want to hear that everyone is all right exactly as they are; that God loves...”
– N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone (via theresaannet)
The donkey whispered in His ear, “Child, in thirty-some-odd years, You’ll ride someone who looks like me, untriumphantly.”
“God hasn’t called me to be successful. He’s called me to be faithful.”
– Mother Teresa (via sweeterthansunshine)
“Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall.”
– Ruth 3:18 (KJV)
I realized that the issue was not that I wanted it to turn out a certain way, but that I need to know which way it would turn out. The issue was that I needed control. And the issue was that I wanted to trust You more than I needed control. So I let go. And I will be still now until...
“The things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at...”
– Elisabeth Elliot (via chaispice)
i know a lot of people seem to dislike Christmas because it’s not technically the day Christ was born and there’s a lot of consumerism and everyone gets so stressed out, but i really don’t care. i think it was the cutest thing in the world to hear my cousin’s 2.5 year old baby saying, “happy birthday, Jesus!” when we walked past a nativity scene yesterday.
“Joy, humor, and laughter show one’s faith in God. For Christians, an essentially...”
– Fr. James Martin (via firstbreath90)
“If we only walk on sunny days we’ll never reach our destination.”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
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i want to be in -40° weather
comeupfromthewilderness:
Don’t be afraid, little warrior bride, victory’s on the other side You’re not alone
“Remember, you are what you are in the eyes of God, and nothing else.”
– St Francis of Assisi (via romanticcatholicism)
“The greatest thing about forgiveness is it will allow you to love again. It will...”
– Donald Miller (via michaeltuckerr)
In Regards to Romantic Love;
thesweetermelody:
“Walk in love” as opposed to “fall in love”.
To walk is by choice. To fall is not.
Walking generally means there is a destination, a common goal, a journey to be taken: to serve one another selflessly until the day of Christ (Philippians 1:6).
Falling generally means that it was an accident, an action that could not be helped, and an eventual reversal. Only the unrighteous...
“Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see...”
– Saint Augustine (via diegocalquin)
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then. ”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (via gotchrist)
“When we learn to read the story of Jesus and see it as the story of the love of...”
– N. T. Wright (via diegocalquin)
enthos:
“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” -Henri J.M. Nouwen