January 2012
19 posts
"Mark Driscoll's Church Discipline Contract" →
This is pure garbage.
“Did know that, when God is your daddy, that anxiety is irrational?”
– Kris Vallotton
took me a year to learn this:
“Ministry” is demonstrating love to others the way God has demonstrated love for you. Laying yourself, your life down to serve, to benefit, to build, to add value to someone else’s life… freely. Showing people that they are worth our time, they are worth our attention, they are worth our care. They can see in your eyes, it’s real, raw, not some hyped up fluffy love...
48÷2(9+3) = ?
If you really know that you're the temple of the...
- Jose Coelho
nataliegreenbell:
I can sincerely respect you as a person, and hate everything that you believe. I can honor you as a child of God and see nothing but Christ in you, and still despise your doctrines.
When will we get this through our heads? What we believe is not who we are. What we believe may determine our experience, and it will certainly determine how we behave, but what we believe does not...
read this:
There exists within the heart of every man, woman and child that has ever been born a subconscious awareness that they were born to be conquerors. The world we are born into does everything that it can to suppress it — to push it down and silence the inward burning for greatness to arise. Systemized religions do all they can to dumb it down and instead create mindless drones with no vision or...
We love ... because He first loved
How you see people has direct correlation with how you think God sees you.
Your passion for people is a reflection of your understanding of God’s passion for you.
Loving your enemies before they become your friends is the fruit of understanding how much God loved you before you knew Him [while you were still a sinner].
If you’re still trying to find a reason to love someone,...
If there was one thing you could 'figure out' in...
What are 3 questions you always like to ask...
(this isn’t for anything serious, just for fun lol)
http://dynamo.dictionary.com/ →
deergoeshome:
Learning is so fun when it is not required.
ooo.
“You will not liberate a man from sinful behavior by berating him, raking him...”
– Jeff Turner (via favoredgrace)
December 2011
28 posts
whizzpopping.tumblr.com/posts/ →
finally finished my organized archive of my posts. haven’t put the most recent posts, but most of it’s there.
it’s a quick way to see what I’ve written, what I’ve reblogged, quotes, testimonies, links, everything!
peace y’all.
A Post Dedicated To Women
lindseyey:
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legit stuff.
“Living in response to God is far superior than living in reaction to the devil.”
– Bill Johnson (via lightcolour)
The Father's Dilemma
loveismycommandment:
Imagine you are a loving parent. What would it be like if every time you tried to tell your long lost children to come home, they ran away scared because their siblings (who live with you) told them you hated them and wouldn’t accept them until they ”cleaned themselves up” ? Your heart would be absolutely broken. I bet you this is how my Dad in Heaven feels. ...
favoredgrace:
salempeters:
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Holy Spirit in YOU has all the experience of the world. He has risen people from the dead. Cleansed lepors. Healed all who had various sicknesses. Empowered to walk on water. Driven demons out. How do I know? Same One dwelled in Jesus. (Rm. 8:11)
This rocked me last night. I’ve always known this, but last night it became more tangible to me. I wasn’t given some...
sueellenb:
I think I fully realize now how repelling the idea of casual dating and relationships are to me, and how damaging they are. I’ve been talking to a young single mom for a while, and she kept trying to hook me up with guys, and in the beginning thought that my views on waiting for the right guy, not hooking up with random people, and my view on casual sex, were all ridiculous....
our commission.
It would have sucked if the extent of Jesus’ outreach was simply praying, “God reveal yourself to this person! Give this person a revelation your love!” Jesus didn’t do that because He was a son. The implication of being a son is that you are completely empowered to be like your Father. Jesus was so confident in his maturity as a son that He even went to say, “If...
When a man is drowning, that's not the time to try...
iamrevival-blog:
- Curry Blake
Sinners flocked to Jesus. Yet when a Christian...
We’ve been trained to think that we need to ‘make’ ourselves holy, and when we do, God will pour out His Spirit and He will change the world with a ‘revival.’
But in reality, God sent His son, paid a price to give us His righteousness and made us holy so that we would go out and awaken the world.
hope is alive.
i used to be suicidal. i used to wonder, “should i just run away and get a new start? or just shoot myself and it over with?” But I was too practical and I was in high school — I didn’t have money. Using pills would be too traceable and it’d take too much work to get them. Cutting myself up would be too slow.
i wanted to escape. i felt trapped. there wasn’t...
jedbrewer:
The people who persecute homosexuals? They don’t speak for me.
The folks that fear and hate Muslims? They don’t speak for me.
The voices that accuse the poor and downtrodden of laziness? They don’t speak for me.
No.
No, the one who said, “Judge not” – he’s the one that speaks for me.
The one who said, “Love your neighbor as yourself” – he’s the one that speaks for me.
The one who...
Faith vs. Feelings
Are you basing what you believe on how you feel? Or do you choose to believe, regardless of how you feel?
Do you really believe you’re not loved because you don’t feel loved? Or do you choose to believe you are loved because He said so?
Do you really believe you’re worthless because you feel worthless? Or do you choose to believe you are worth it because you are the pearl of...
carolinebyrd asked: My fiance wants a good study Bible for Christmas. Any suggestions?
“Your circumstances are never the measuring stick of God’s love, Jesus on...”
– Dan Mohler
“Religion says:
God will love us if we change.
The Gospel says:
God’s love...”
– Romans 2:4 (via stop-listen-and-learn)
discipline vs. passion
It sucks to read the bible out of religious discipline, rather than a passion to get to know and grow someone.
It sucks to schedule a regular ‘prayer-time’, rather than living out a dialogue with your best Friend.
For me, reading the bible stopped becoming a religious discipline when I realized that Jesus actually God Himself in the flesh. Jesus perfectly represented the Father (John...
“Your passion for God is measurable in your passion for people.”
– Bill Johnson (via sueellenb)
(you can replace “passion” for “love” and it works just as well)
Anonymous asked: God wants to heal all sickness and disease at all times, but what do you say when you pray for someone and he/she didn't get healed?
Christianity isn’t “up and down” it’s not a “roller coaster” ride. It’s only up. It’s more like an escalator ride. The kingdom only knows increase. It only knows forward. If your Christianity is up and down, forward and backward, you’re being ripped off from the life you were designed to live :).
I lived 6 years that way, was told it was...
I'm pleasing to God because:
A) I live holy B) Jesus C) Read my Bible and pray D) Go to church on Sunday
Choose one only!
- Daniel Silva
“It’s a sad day when you’re more known for what you’re...”
“Humility is not how little can I make me, but how big can i make you.”
– Tommy Scully
If every time
diplateevo:
you said anything to me, you started with “Dear Daniel”, and ended with “Amen”, I would probably feel kinda strange around you because you always have a framework for our conversations.
I thought it was supposed to be a relationship, not a religion.
And if every time I met Daniel, I would follow the same script and say the exact same thing to him every time, we wouldn’t be...
Blue Rose Tuesdays (READ ME!)
iamrevival-blog:
Bob and Sue Prunebottom were a few years into their marriage when Sue felt the need to challenge Bob on the lack of romance they were experiencing. Gone were the days when he initiated exciting and unexpected events that brought the two of them together romantically. Now their marriage consisted of a steady diet of predictable rituals and routines that maintained stability but...
November 2011
40 posts
Anonymous asked: What would you say to a person when he/she asks, "how can you be drunk in the spirit when the bible says to be sober minded?"
Relationship Run
This is an old article I discovered almost 3 years ago, still very relevant and needed today, it’s saved me lots of time and has prevented a TON of emotional baggage:
This is some incredibly practical material - with Valentines Day looming in the near future I thought I’d share some thoughts with you guys. For all of you who spend way too much time wondering who “The One”...
“I have come to see that the normal Christian life means miracles, spiritual...”
– Bill Johnson