September 2011
1 post
Mithrandir: “If grace is an ocean, then we’re all... →
thegreypilgrim:
“If grace is an ocean, then we’re all sinking.” - David Crowder Band
If you want to know God, what he is like and if he exists, talk to the slave, the outcast, the prostitute, the broken of society. He is not a bourgeois God. That’s for sure. He’s the God in the trenches, in the brothels, in the…
April 2010
2 posts
A new day blossoms...: 4 rules of thumb in life →
You’re confused, hurt, ashamed, guilty, devastated, lost, broken… Ask yourself these four questions:
1. What is God’s heart? 2. What is God’s character? 3. What is God’s mind? 4. What is God’s purpose?
God’s heart is always for you, so who can be against you? God’s character is always one of …
“It’s time to let God’s love cover all things in your life. All secrets. All...”
– Max Lucado (via godglimpses)
March 2010
1 post
Your Love Is A Song: When we allow Heaven to... →
heisjealousforme:
His voice in us will proclaim freedom to the captives. His love will pass threw our heart to the souls of the unloved. As we are consumed with His love and being in love with Him.. His love will consume those around us. His heart will touch the heartless. His hope will reach the hopeless. Who we were is dead; we have now made the decision to be one in Him. Our heart is one...
February 2010
2 posts
When you Love Someone who Doesn't Love Christ
When you Love Someone who Doesn’t Love Christ - John Shore
…. So the question is, what attitude — what guiding principle, what constantly motivating emotional truth — should you take care to bring to each of those three dimensions in your relationship with a nonbeliever in your life?
About yourself, be humble.
Toward the other person, be loving.
Toward the...
What Can You Do when You Wonder "Why?"
What Can You Do when You Wonder “Why?”
Whitney Hopler
If you’ve lost your job, received a devastating diagnosis from your doctor, or seen your spouse walk out of your marriage, you know well what it’s like to suffer and wonder why this is happening to you. No matter what challenge you’re facing, it can be hard to carry on in the midst of suffering.
But God is...
January 2010
5 posts
What I like about Christians on Tumblr...
liveinhislove:
todayisawindingroad:
classyliving:
Even though we’re from different churches, with different ideas, and even though some of us appreciate Joel Osteen and others don’t at all, and some of us appreciate Benny Hinn and other’s don’t at all… even though some of us are Catholic, Seventh-Day Adventist, Pentecostal, Baptist, non-denominational… even though some of us Arminian or...
God created us to follow.
alifeofloveforlife:
Being made in God’s image means we are designed for a reflective following relationship to our Creator. Since we were designed to follow, we spend our entire lives following-its just that no one wants to admit it. Sin strives for independence. The agony of sin is that the more we reach for autonomy, the more we become enslaved as followers. The more we do life our way, the...
Not just that one time
heisjealousforme:
I am amazed by Jesus, and this morning I am dwelling on the fact that it wasn’t just the one time He hung on that cross for my sins. He takes those nails for me every day. He takes the weight of each and every sin I commit. And He cries out for me with each and every ache of my heart. But I know that as well as being hung on that cross, Jesus died for me, and continues to do so...
death is the greatest of all lies, and satan the...
alifeofloveforlife:
heisjealousforme:
Loving someone causes you to become like them. True love is seeing people for who they really are, Who they were made to be- children of God, made in the image of Christ. The more we lose ourselves in Christ, the more we shed our “flesh” and begin to live by the Spirit, the more we are loving and living like Him. Worship suggests a desire to be like...
Ten Questions to Ask at the Start of a New Year or...
lunchboxed:
Once, when the people of God had become careless in their relationship with Him, the Lord rebuked them through the prophet Haggai. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai 1:5) he declared, urging them to reflect on some of the things happening to them, and to evaluate their slipshod spirituality in light of what God had told them.
Even those most faithful to God occasionally need to pause and...
December 2009
11 posts
todayilived:
“I celebrate that You were born to...
He must increase, but I must decrease.
lissacarol:
I tend to lose sight of what’s truly important when I put too much emphasis on my relationship with Christ, and not enough focus on the fact that because I have a relationship with Him, I am to love others and live like He did.
I think it is selfish if we are the main focus of our relationship with Jesus. Its not about me. Its about Him.
Saw the hillsong documentary tonight. While...
“I always say that if we believe terrorists are beyond redemption, we can rip out...”
– Shane Claiborne (via humbleservant)
Wow, this is SO good.
(via whomshallifear)
2. "On Atonement" Written 9/24/09
liveinhislove:
alifeofloveforlife:
heisjealousforme:
I have come to realize that the only way I can grow is by being honest about where I am right now. Where I am is not who I am; who I am is where I will be, where God intended me to be from the time He created me. But I can only make strides in getting there by recognizing where I am now. If I see my sin as who I am, then I give myself no...
liveinhislove:
brookandlyn:
I was going to make a new Christmas list since I didn’t need the things that I’ve listed before, but I couldn’t think of a single thing that I wanted. I’m totally content with everyone and everything in my life. I’m fine with the plans that I made and where I’m at right now. Even though I may not necessarily like California all that much. I need to be here. Maybe...
allforjesus:
In the chorus of this song, it...
November 2009
6 posts
It's funny how science is the stereotypical thing...
whomshallifear:
alwayswearlove:
Seriously, there’s no way all of it could be this perfectly placed by chance, by an explosion.
the common praise team
lettinglightin:
sunshineinmysoul:
Today as we were singing praises to God at church I started wondering why we stand in a way that we are usually facing the worship team. And why is it that the worship team is on the stage and everyone in everyone else is the crowd? At Newsong we don’t literally face the worship team, but worship team is projected onto a large screen along with the worship...
October 2009
10 posts
“tear down the walls, see the world
is there something we have missed?
turn...”
– tear down the walls - hillsong united (via hoppipoppi) (via breakthroughing)
I believe in God even when He is silent
breakthroughing:
whomshallifear:
heavenlyencounters:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn had been in the Gulag, a Soviet prison camp. He had been forced to do back-breaking labor until he came to the point of exhaustion.
The following was found written on a cellar wall in Cologne (Köln) after World War II,
I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I feel it not. I...
readyforbattle:
mitesoro:
spacetowrite:
weaponsoftruth:
You’ll find flaws in the history of christianity.
You’ll find flaws in way the church operates today.
You’ll find flaws in the leaders of the church.
You’ll find flaws in the books we write, songs we sing and words we say.
You’ll find flaws in me.
But none of these screw-ups are any reason to reject God.
Because you will never...
Christianity.
humbleservant:
To be a radical Christian, is not so much to be weird or “different” at all. We radicals are not what you would call “extremists” but quite simply, we are ordinary. We’ve gone back to the simple way of life that God is calling each and every one of us to.
There really is no true Christian that isn’t radical. You’re either a radical or not. To be radical, in the historic sense of...
peacenotwar:
whomshallifear:
heisjealousforme:
laurasmile:
ahazygirl:
The voice of evil tells you that you are broken, worthless, damaged.
That God can’t use you.
But the voice of truth says, God forgives. Over and over and over.
THE VISION
heisjealousforme:
themidnighttsociety:
bradleyhayes:
So this guy comes up to me and says “what’s the vision? What’s the big idea?” I open my mouth and words come out like this…
The vision?
The vision is JESUS – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.
The vision is an army of young people.
You see bones? I see an army. And they are FREE from materialism.
They laugh at 9-5 little...
“I can see the tears filling your eyes,
and I know where they’re coming from....”
– Steven Curtis Chapman (Fingerprints of God) (via loveliftedme)
“God is not stumped by an evil world. He doesn’t gasp in amazement at the depth...”
– Max Lucado (via mackenzieyourfriendzie) (via peacenotwar)
Your story is bigger than you think.
loveliftedme:
labellavitaa:
“God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.” This statement is so true in my life right now. But I don’t like to think that anyone is just ‘ordinary.’ I think everyone is extraordinary and God uses them to do things that they can’t even comprehend.
Your story is bigger than you think. So, you’ve messed up a few times, everyone does. But each of those...
peacenotwar:
heisjealousforme:
I want everyone I know to fall in love, to know love so intimately that every person they come in contact with is effected by it. To fall so deeply into love that every face is etched with perfection and every voice has something unique to offer, that everyone has something to give, to discover love in such a way that they end up enamoured with everyone because...
September 2009
5 posts
If God is a loving God, why does he allow pain and...
taylorcthomas:
If God is a loving God, why does he allow pain and suffering? Why does God allow evil? If you push a button on one of those talking barbie dolls and it says “I love you” how meaningful is that? If love or goodness is something programmed into you, something you have no choice about, is it really love? Real love must involve a choice. God gave people free choice because that’s...
“God’s redemption plan is already in effect. It’s not for ‘someday when,’ it’s...”
– Jason Gray
Where do you run when your suffering?
peacenotwar:
If it’s something or someone other than God, that’s probably one of your idols.
God ought be our first port of call. In suffering, in joy, in trial, you name it. We need to bring it to God first and rely on Him.
“What do we mean when we talk of God helping us? We mean God putting into us a...”
– C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity) (via autumnfringes)
“God is kind of like the air. You can’t always feel the air, but you know it’s...”
– This is just something someone once told me and I feel that some people forget that God is always there. He will never leave you nor forsake you. (via labellavitaa) (via spokenhearts) (via briannekayliegh-) (via peacenotwar)
August 2009
28 posts
I don’t believe anyone has ever sacrificed anything for God. Sure, we make temporal sacrifices. But let me ask a question: if you always get back more than you gave up have you really sacrifice anything at all? The think the answer is no! In the words of Jim Elliot, “He is no fool who loses what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”
- Mark Batterson
“We live by faith, not by sight.”
– 2 Corinthians 5:7 (via readyforbattle)
1 tag
The joy of the Lord is brimming up from inside me
I can’t contain myself :):)
Had a walk around the estate with God listening to Everything to Me by Avalon. I love God, and He’s working through my life.
Every move i make i make in you. You are my way...
peacenotwar:
searchingforalana:
I loved this song growing up. It was so fun, but now that i actually know what i was singing i understand the deeper level of this song, even though it is a child’s song.
(Secretly, I still do the motions to it)
I think if people say they don’t do the motions to it, they’re lying.
“Worship is forgetting what’s wrong with you and remembering what’s...”
– Mark Batterson