January 2012
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“There is no power in the clock tonight. If your heart is wrong at 11:59 it’ll be...”
– Kirk Franklin (via thanksforthebubbletea)
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New Year's Resolutions 2012
This is a “note-to-self” kind of post. I think God has revealed a lot of what He is able and willing to do in my life, and how utterly incapable I am of improving myself in any way. By God’s grace, I believe that I will continue to grow in Him.
So here are a few [small, but important nonetheless!] goals I have for the coming year (and the years to come!). In no particular...
“Die to yourself. That’s what Christianity is all about. Die and find a life...”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
December 2011
38 posts
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“The message of biblical Christianity is not ‘God loves me, period,’ as if we...”
– David Platt (via blakebaggott)
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“Who am I? What is my “self”? The answer is that I am a Jekyll and Hyde, a...”
– John Stott (via jspark3000)
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Dear all Christian Tumblr folks,
cortneyabraham:
I realize that Tumblr is a place where we all come to share our feelings, emotions, secrets, desires, and humorous pictures of cats. I understand that almost all of our followers are strangers, which makes it much easier to share parts of ourselves that would normally go unshared. But we must also remember that while our followers are just tiny little pictures, sometimes gray...
Beauty
benshim:
“Music is not robust to degradation.”
I’m watching a video about the attempt to restore musical cognition to patients with cochlear implants. They perceive language well, but pitch is apparently nowhere close—and even if the pitch was close, the music would still sound terrible. (In my humble opinion, a pitch sounds the worst when it’s just a little bit wrong, relatively speaking.) So...
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NYC with cousin from Cali!!
EVERYTHING WENT ACCORDING TO PLAN BAHAHAHAHA…
Just kidding. Maybe like the first 1/4, but after that: *crash and burn* :\
*and rain lots of rain tons of rain and did I mention rain*
But would literally do it again in an INSTANT. A million times over.
“Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.”
– Philippians 4:4 (via brianli)
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activate.
thanksforthebubbletea:
precious words are few stumbling around in the dark like fools fumbling for tools to construct my bawl-silica an overarching heaven artificial a screen for my extraterrestrial projections
con-men con-structures loosely shingled and measured, they fall down and shatter on contact with ground because these are apparitions of apparatuses and may or may not exist
and i call...
“To sin is human but to remain in sin is devilish; To fall is not ruinous to the...”
– Saint John Chrysostom (via sunflower-soul)
“Do you want the person that you’re pursuing to fall in love with something you...”
– J. Harris (via iwilltrustinyou)
“The gospel was drilled into me by the dry ranks of seminary. I learned it in a...”
– (via jspark3000)
“We live in the real world. I do not call for a simplistic gospel to replace rich...”
– J.S. Park, in I Love My Doctrine More Than Jesus: Why No One Cares About Your Theology
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I Love My Doctrine More Than Jesus: Why No One... →
jspark3000:
Scholars, theologians, bloggers, pastors, Calvinists: I love scholarly stuff because it’s a fascinating dig of brilliant minds into every branched minutia of knowledge, but no one in the real world cares about it as much as you do.
Your specific-sliced doctrine does not have a flag in the warzone. My army friend who served two years in a heated Iraq: double election and...
“Do you know how much you’re loved? Surely you don’t. The negative ways you see...”
– Unka Glen (unkaglen.tumblr.com)
“Generally, Christians tend to see the grace of God as a grace that forgives your...”
– Mark Driscoll 10 Truths for Gospel-Centered Living (via emwi89)
I don't think any death should be celebrated
jaeunki:
no matter how horrible that person was.
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Behold the Man upon a cross My sin upon His shoulders, Ashamed I hear my mocking voice Call out among the scoffers It was my sin that left Him there Until it was accomplished His dying breath has brought me life I know that it is finished
Nothing good comes without strings attached...
…except His love.
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8 ESV)
and
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the [free] gift of God (Ephesians 2:8 ESV)
despite my shortcomings and utter helplessness
I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, that...
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“I remember when you said you were unlovable. I died on the cross to prove you...”
– Jesus (via wewontbequiet)
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“The Word of God is the focal point by which all things and relationships make...”
– (via jspark3000)
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To'ebah - [Abomination]
brianli:
The Bible does not confine the context of exclusively to ritual violations and does use it in context of obvious immoral behavior as well. For example, Proverbs 6:16-19 states: “These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination [to’ebah] unto him: A proud look, a lying heart, hands quick to shed innocent blood, a heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be...
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Jesus I belong to You
Jesus I believe in You
You’re the reason that I live
The reason that I sing
With all I am
“At first it sounds like an amazing song, however, note the emphasis is on what “I” will do. There is no information about what Jesus did for us, but a high declaration of what we will do of Him. We sing that “we” will walk wherever God wants us to, and while some of us...
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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11, ESV
All glory and honor and praise be to the God who watches over me! Because even though I question(ed) Your will, You keep telling me to trust You, to trust You, to trust You…
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“As a Christian, anyone you meet is a new prayer request.”
– Jessica, The Answer Girl (via theanswergirl)
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themanlyeunicorn13:
Such a beautiful song. I...
A little past thanksgiving but I'm thankful for
wongdavidjacob:
- the way God is working (all around)
- the friendships i’ve created
- the friendships i’ve maintained
- the friendships i’ve solidified (HOPEFULLY FOREVER :D)
not pleased with the friendships that seem to be growing smaller. hate it actually. nor am i pleased with how Rutgers is killing everyone academically.
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but overall, thankful. and GODSOGOOD still as always.
...
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Let me tell you the story of my life:
And as for my birth, on the day I was born my cord was not cut, nor was I washed with water to cleanse me, nor rubbed with salt, nor wrapped in swaddling cloths. No eye pitied me, to do any of these things to me out of compassion for me, but I was cast out on the open field, for I was abhorred, on the day that I was born.
And when You passed by me and saw me wallowing in my blood, You said to...
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It’s probably-most-definitely not glorifying to God to “not care” about stuff.
“Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience”
– Charles F. Banning (via theanswergirl)