These are my thoughts..the few and far between...

certainlittlething: BLAH when people talk about Paradise and they’re like AND WE’RE GONNA BE YOUNG...

Wed, 01 May 2013 07:32:33 -0400

BLAH when people talk about Paradise and they’re like AND WE’RE GONNA BE YOUNG AND GORGEOUS AND PERFECT LOOKING WITH CLEAR SKIN AND

no

i mean maybe but it’s not the change in your appearance that matters but the shift in standards, there will be no more insecurity or vanity or lust or envy or expectations of beauty because without sin we can see who we are truly and our real value

we’ll have clear skin but nobody’s gonna be worrying about blemishes mk

no more brokenness of self image or identity. we will embrace our true worth.

Sometimes...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:07:43 -0400

I wonder if I’m called to be doing this. If this is Spirit led. I wonder if they know I care about them and that I’m not neglecting them. I wonder if God can use a mess up like me to show His grace to these people. Can I truly and faithfully divide His word so that people can be truly moved by the Spirit and follow Him. Sometimes the fruit takes a while to grow. I need to remember that God is not done with anyone yet. He is alive. He is still working. Even in my unfaithfulness, my God is faithful. I know that. I think. But sometimes, you know…? Just sometimes.

Dark Night of the Soul - Psalm 38

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:02:12 -0400

O Lord, rebuke me not in Your wrath,
And chasten me not in Your burning anger.
For Your arrows have sunk deep into me,
And Your hand has pressed down on me.
There is no soundness in my flesh because of Your indignation;
There is no health in my bones because of my sin.
For my iniquities are gone over my head;
As a heavy burden they weigh too much for me.
My wounds grow foul and fester
Because of my folly.
I am bent over and greatly bowed down;
I go mourning all day long.
For my loins are filled with burning,
And there is no soundness in my flesh.
I am benumbed and badly crushed;
I groan because of the agitation of my heart.

Lord, all my desire is before You;
And my sighing is not hidden from You.
My heart throbs, my strength fails me;
And the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me.
My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague;
And my kinsmen stand afar off.
Those who seek my life lay snares for me;
And those who seek to injure me have threatened destruction,
And they devise treachery all day long.

But I, like a deaf man, do not hear;
And I am like a mute man who does not open his mouth.
Yes, I am like a man who does not hear,
And in whose mouth are no arguments.
For I hope in You, O Lord;
You will answer, O Lord my God.
For I said, “May they not rejoice over me,
Who, when my foot slips, would magnify themselves against me.”
For I am ready to fall,
And my sorrow is continually before me.
For I confess my iniquity;
I am full of anxiety because of my sin.
But my enemies are vigorous and strong,
And many are those who hate me wrongfully.
And those who repay evil for good,
They oppose me, because I follow what is good.
Do not forsake me, O Lord;
O my God, do not be far from me!
Make haste to help me,
O Lord, my salvation!
 
 
- Sometimes I wonder if I’m even supposed to be doing this. Is that okay? 

denyandfollow: profmorty: pretty much this. i can’t...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 19:51:15 -0400

denyandfollow:

profmorty:

pretty much this.

i can’t even.

B.H.B.: It just hit me.

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:52:52 -0500

B.H.B.: It just hit me.:

foresight-through-hindsight:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

This is not God’s beginning. It may not even be the angels’ beginning. This Beginning in Genesis 1:1 is perhaps just the beginning of a reality that we can comprehend.

We don’t know a reality outside of time, so maybe this Beginning is…

you just hit on the first point of the YA discussion that i’m planning for the 23rd.

humansofnewyork: This man was driving me across Tehran...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:16:29 -0500

humansofnewyork:

This man was driving me across Tehran yesterday, when I learned that he’d lived for 8 years in America— incidentally on the same STREET as me in Georgia.

He first crossed into the United States from Mexico— paying $1,500 to be transported across the border. He wanted to go to University and be a dentist, but learned that the idea of America was much more bountiful than the reality. He worked at a factory job for 8 years, without ever being able to get a drivers license. He wasn’t able to find a foothold in society. After 9/11, he said things got much tougher for Middle Eastern immigrants. “I had a great passion for the American people,” he said. “When 9/11 happened, I had no money, so instead I gave my blood.”

Five years ago he spent a night in jail for driving without a license. He decided he was tired of being nervous all the time, and he went all out for a green card. When he was turned down, he returned to Iran.

His fee for a 45 minute taxi ride across Tehran was only $6. I paid him the rate he’d have received in America, and asked for his photograph. He was the kind of man I most admire. The kind that realizes you get one shot at life, and risks everything to make the best of it. I was sorry it didn’t work out for him.

“It was my destiny,” he said. He didn’t sound like he believed his own words though.

“Are you married?” I asked.

“Yes. I met my wife when I returned to Iran.”

“Well there you go,” I said.

As I prepared to take his photograph, he made one request: “Don’t photograph me with the taxi,” he said, “it’s a low class job.”

“It’s not a low class job,” I said. “It’s the job of people who take huge risks so their children can be lawyers and surgeons.”

(Tehran, Iran)

Too much cute.

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:35:49 -0500

Too much cute.

TWD X Jesus

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:02:42 -0500

The self sufficient/reliant Christian is like a spiritual life-draining zombie that will eat others and utterly rot themselves away.

TGC 2013

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:40:00 -0500

Is anyone from the tumbleverse down in FL going to the Gospel Coalition Conference in April?

Wanna adopt a poor seminary student for a few days?

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you’re looking for money, I can tell you I don’t have alotta money… but what I do have are a very particular set of theological one liners. Theological one liners I have acquired over a very long career on tumblr. Theological epiphanies that make me a blessing for people like you. If you let me stay at your place, that will not be the end of it - I will follow you on Tumblr, I will add you on Facebook… but if you don’t, I will cry, I will cry… and I will not go to TGC 2013.

;)

jessicalin: I did not know love until You loved me. Overwhelmed. so simple yet so true. 1 John...

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:19:22 -0500

jessicalin:

I did not know love until You loved me.

Overwhelmed.

so simple yet so true. 1 John 4:19

I like my thoughts scattered, please.

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 22:06:00 -0500

I admit it. I have doubts. I doubt myself. I doubt my calling. Ultimately I doubt God. Sometimes the voice of self-pity can be so overwhelming that I get blocked out the voice of grace.

I need to remind myself that God’s will and purpose for me is way above my own intentions, passions, convictions, and will. That’s the daily battle. The daily struggle.

Am i leading myself into a pit or am i being led by God?

Am I even supposed to be here? Serving in ministry? Going to seminary?

Sometimes I feel like I have failed so many people. Even if they don’t know it. Even if they don’t say it. I tend to be over-critical or emotionless when I get like this.

I think of all the relationships that I’ve let go of, the friendships that I neglected, my younger brothers and sisters that i haven’t invested enough time into. I see them. The forgotten ones, the neglected ones, the ones that are outside the cliques. The ones that have tons to say but never get a chance or feel comfortable enough to express. I think of all the times I’ve failed and it’s all a focus on me me me. I know this.

God, where are You in all of this?

Your word tells me to lean on you and not on my own understanding. God, stepping out is so freaking scary.

It’s like this beautiful yet utterly terrifying thing to do. Trust and act in divine trust in the Lord.

Please show me the true meaning of this. I want to experience this like all the testimonies and accounts that I’ve heard. Why is it so easy to forget your grace and power? Please remind me. Continuously. So I can live by the power of Your grace.

Can You tell me that You’ll redeem and repair all these cracks that I’ve made in my relationships with people?

May I be filled with Your Holy Spirit like a mighty wind, the Living Breath that breathes life into this dark and broken world.

"There is someone that I love even though I don’t approve of what he does. There is someone I accept..."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:42:56 -0500

““There is someone that I love even though I don’t approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is……me.””

- C.S. Lewis

"When I pray, sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself instead of God. Or when I read the Bible,..."

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:59:37 -0500

“

When I pray, sometimes I feel like I’m talking to myself instead of God. Or when I read the Bible, sometimes I’m just getting information instead of transformation. Or when I serve, I sometimes go through the motions.

But you know what? I keep praying anyway. I keep reading the Bible. I keep serving. We all go through false starts, dry seasons, times of detachment, mixed up motives, and self-doubt. But I keep running to God then, too. Satan’s gameplan is to keep you second-guessing yourself; he’s happy as long as you’re not going to God. So I’m all for doing the thing that pisses off Satan.

”

- J.S. Park

When there is a new person at small group

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 23:04:12 -0500

whatshouldwecallchurch:

oneboat:

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:36:36 -0500

oneboat:

Hi, I'm Ramses: Church ramble

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:13:18 -0500

Hi, I'm Ramses: Church ramble:

theheadandheart:

This is how I see it working:

Instead of large gatherings in a building each Sunday where you clock in, listen to some guy speak and then clock out and go back to your comfortable life.

Lets organize the people into smaller focused groups based on where they live. Each…

Amen. I would love to see this brought into fruition. The vision must be caught and spread out.

When I try to comfort someone after they share what they are struggling with

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:04:05 -0500

whatshouldwecallchurch:

This.

The Motivations of the Heart

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:52:32 -0500

Sometimes the darkness can seem to consume the soul. Whether it’s a trial that we can’t control or the habitual sin that we allow ourselves to dive into because of familiarity. But then after months, weeks, days of turning away from Him, we’re left in a pile of confusion like trying to crawl out of a ball pit with no lights.

What motivates your heart? What keeps you going?

Is it Christ? Or something else?

Revelations 2:4-5

⁴Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.⁵Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.

Return to your first love. Tear down your heart idols. They’re only hindering from where you need to go. These comfort idols slowly poison you with the false sense of security.

Don’t turn inward, my brothers and sisters. Return to your first love.

Maybe you’ve forgotten Him. But He has never forgotten you.

Yup yup.

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:29:59 -0500

If you were looking for righteous men
Then you know I wouldn’t stand a chance
But you said you wanted sinners, so here I am

“Here I Am” - Jed Brewer

Meh.

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:09:38 -0500

Today was a hard day.

It was cold.

I was sneezing.

My heart hurts.