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One Hope and Comfort

Fri, 11 May 2012 01:50:14 -0400

One Hope and Comfort:

A Perspective to think about with the infamous question: Why is there suffering in this world?

Mindset on Fiction Literature

Fri, 04 May 2012 14:43:37 -0400

Mindset on Fiction Literature:

I think Russell Moore has a good mindset about this topic. It can be well applied for entertainment in general.

Messing around with tumblr and found this out

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:34:12 -0400

yourherojunior:

AND

AND WATCH IT SPIN!!:D

Messing around with tumblr and found this out

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:33:55 -0400

yourherojunior:

AND

AND WATCH IT SPIN!!:D

nathantsai: It’s just the bare necessities… Reblogging an old...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:59:55 -0400

nathantsai:

It’s just the bare necessities…

Reblogging an old post because it’s that good.

"Well, it’s like I always tell my kids: If you’re living in God’s will for your life, when you run..."

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:00:11 -0400

“Well, it’s like I always tell my kids: If you’re living in God’s will for your life, when you run into a problem, that’s not your problem to fix, that’s God’s problem to fix. When you’re living in God’s will for your life and you run into an obstacle, that’s not your obstacle, that’s God’s obstacle. My days are stress-free knowing that.”

- A Driver in Florida (Jon Acuff’s Blog)

"If you think you are going to get rich through a job that excludes God and a Christian witness, God..."

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:21:34 -0400

“If you think you are going to get rich through a job that excludes God and a Christian witness, God will let you get close enough to the wealth to taste it but then keep it just beyond your grasp. If you think you are going to become famous in show business and are willing to leave the commands of God behind in your upward scramble to get there, God will let you get close enough to know and envy others who have made it but keep you an unknown. Do you think that God will not do this: That He is too “kind?” I tell you that God will do it, he is faithful to his nature and will not allow the one He loves to be destroyed through an adulterous infatuation with this world’s idols.”

- James Boice (HT: Garnet Kim)

The Perception of Suffering

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 01:35:02 -0400

The Perception of Suffering:

Something that has been on mind recently that stemmed from reading John Piper’s book and men’s retreat.

God is Indeed Good.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:54:51 -0400

God is Indeed Good.

Oh… My… This was a really good Queens medley.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:04:10 -0400

Oh… My… This was a really good Queens medley.

Sing-Off Season 3

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 02:15:14 -0400

Confession: I haven’t watched the season from episode 1 to whatever episode it ended on, but there was one group I heard of through others.

Pentatonix!

They were freaking sick! The two best songs they covered are linked below.

What I was raving about was the freaking bass! That guy is so good with the bass line! I just wanted to listen to the bass all day. You’ll understand once you listen to them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erZN-yCyOP8&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_YcIaWirew&feature=related

I Become God as I Sin

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:38:40 -0400

I Become God as I Sin

We are small, but He is big.

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:14:57 -0400

We are small, but He is big.:

I thought this was a wonderful story to put into perspective just how small we are to God, but still loved by Him.

Very humbling to read!

"Now, have I not answered these two questions honestly? I have endeavoured to give a scriptural..."

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:22:07 -0500

“Now, have I not answered these two questions honestly? I have endeavoured to give a scriptural reason for the dealings of God with man. He saves man by grace, and if men perish they perish justly by their own fault. “How,” says some one, “do you reconcile these two doctrines?” My dear brethren, I never reconcile two friends, never. These two doctrines are friends with one another; for they are both in God’s Word, and I shall not attempt to reconcile them. If you show me that they are enemies, then I will reconcile them. “But,” says one, “there is a great deal of difficulty about them.” Will you tell me what truth there is that has not difficulty about it? “But,” he says, “I do not see it.” Well, I do not ask you to see it; I ask you to believe it. There are many things in God’s Word that are difficult, and that I cannot see, but they are there, and I believe them. I cannot see how God can be omnipotent and man be free; but it is so, and I believe it. “Well,” says one, “I cannot understand it. My answer is, I am bound to make it as plain as I can, but if you have not any understanding, I cannot give you any; there I must leave it. But then, again, it is not a matter of understanding; it is a matter of faith. These two things are true; I do not see that they at all differ. However, if they did, I should say, if they appear to contradict one another, they do not really do so, because God never contradicts himself. And I should think in this I exhibited the power of my faith in God, that I could believe him, even when his word seemed to be contradictory. That is faith. Did not Abraham believe in God even when God’s promise seemed to contradict his providence? Abraham was old, and Sarah was old, but God said Sarah should have a child. How can that be? said Abraham, for Sarah is old; and yet Abraham believed the promise, and Sarah had a son. There was a reconciliation between providence and promise; and if God can bring providence and promise together, he can bring doctrine and promise together. If I cannot do it, God can even in the world to come.”

- CHS

Reminded of this great quote from Lawson @ Shepherds Conference

(via anthonylocke)

"The new birth is very, very much more than simply shedding a few tears due to a temporary remorse..."

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:50:40 -0500

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The new birth is very, very much more than simply shedding a few tears due to a temporary remorse over sin. It is far more than changing our course of life, the leaving off of bad habits and the substituting of good ones. It is something different from the mere cherishing and practising of noble ideals. It goes infinitely deeper than coming forward to take some popular evangelist by the hand, signing a pledge-card, or “joining the church.” The new birth is no mere turning over a new leaf but is the inception and reception of a new life. It is no mere reformation but a complete transformation. In short, the new birth is a miracle, the result of the supernatural operation of God. It is radical, revolutionary, lasting.

Here then is the first thing, in time, which God does in His own elect. He lays hold of those who are spiritually dead and quickens them into newness of life. He takes up one who was shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, and conforms him to the image of His Son. He seizes a captive of the Devil and makes him a member of the household of faith. He picks up a beggar and makes him joint-heir with Christ. He comes to one who is full of enmity against Him and gives him a new heart that is full of love for Him. He stoops to one who by nature is a rebel and works in him both to will and to do of His own good pleasure. By His irresistible power He transforms a sinner into a saint, an enemy into a friend, a slave of the Devil into a child of God.

”

- A.W. Pink (http://www.challies.com/quotes/more-than-a-few-tears?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+challies%2FXhEt+%28Challies+Dot+Com%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher)

Everyone is equally skilled to do wrong, to commit an action...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:03:47 -0500

Everyone is equally skilled to do wrong, to commit an action that’s morally atrocious, and to commit sins.

Only One is equally skilled to forgive, to show compassion, to show mercy, and to show sins.

This song reminds me a little bit about the Prodigal Son. In...

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:15:48 -0500

This song reminds me a little bit about the Prodigal Son. In this culture, we created a stigma towards those who are struggling with drugs or with homelessness. What I feel this song is saying is that these people are children for someone out there (hence the lines, “She’s somebody’s baby girl”). Not only are they children to someone in this world, they can also be children to a heavenly Father. Who are we to judge and look down upon these people?

Jon Foreman’s musical touch on Psalm 23. (I’m going...

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:27:53 -0500

Jon Foreman’s musical touch on Psalm 23.

(I’m going to go a little crazy posting about Jon Foreman because I love his music.)

Don't Lose the Opportunity

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:06:37 -0500

Don't Lose the Opportunity

Here's to a New Year!

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:54:12 -0500

Here's to a New Year!