May 2012
32 posts
loveismycommandment:
Your weight does not define you. Your skin color does not define you. Your gender does not define you. Your sexuality does not define you. Your friends do not define you. Your family does not define you. Your successes do not define you. Your failures do not define you. Your present circumstances do not define you. You past does not define you. Your mistakes do not define...
Pursuing Life Abundant:
This is a letter a friend of mine wrote to update people about what she had been up to for the past 6 months. Even though it’s not addressed specifically to you, there is a lot you can learn from what she’s gone through:
I remember being in a church service one day, and starting to imagine what it would be like if I had no where or no one to return to after that morning. What would I...
believing truth
What you do, what you have done, what has happened, what just happened
DOES. NOT. DEFINE.
Who you are.
Who you will be.
What you do tomorrow.
What will happen tomorrow.
The biggest lie you can believe is that your habits from yesterday will forever carry on into tomorrow.
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Lie:
Your failures from yesterday determine your worth.
What it sounds like:
“You failed, that means...
“Knowing How to Think Empowers You Far Beyond Those Who Know Only What to Think.”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via diplateevo)
favoredgrace:
We can only feel hopeless if we have listened to the one who speaks hopelessness.
The opposite is true as well.
“We only preach rules and behavior modification when we don’t trust God to change...”
– Alex Perez (via loveismycommandment)
salempeters:
// In the Christian life, you do not work to become righteous. You are born righteous.
growing up
If the institution of ‘church’ didn’t exist, I think most people wouldn’t even know how to direct their Christian life because they’ve become so dependent on a system for a relationship.
Unfortunately, we’ve been so conditioned to depend on it that we almost believe that it’s impossible to know God outside of the institution of church. Some actually...
Christ is all
People never know how to respond when you reply with scripture and bring everything back to the work of the cross. Especially when they realize that you’re standing on something solid and they’re never going to move you. “Judgment in Isaiah!” Forgiveness in Jesus. “Separation in Adam!” Reconciliation in Jesus. “Yeah, but Adam sinned!” But Jesus...
“Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting...”
– Greg Anderson
“It’s crazy how when you call people out for saying, “Without God...”
– Daniel Silva
“Anyone who discovers who God has made them to be would never want to be anyone...”
– Bill Johnson (via lindseyey)
“I stopped believing in the rapture once I realized that Jesus never made a big...”
– Daniel R. Silva (via loveismycommandment)
http://saintsnotsinners.org/rapture-purpose-jesus/
(via diplateevo)
10 Things About Your Christian Walk
diplateevo:
1. Reading your Bible and Praying does not equal growth.
The kingdom is not a rewards system. Reading the bible will not grant you more favor with God, and not reading your bible will not grant you less favor. Being forced to read words out of a book every single day of your life will not spontaneously make you a more holy and powerful person. It’s the passion and desire to grow...
“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage,...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
Experiences vs Questions
loveismycommandment:
salempeters:
The other evening, I was reading the word and came across a seemingly conflicting scripture with the nature and character of God. The scripture was in Luke 12:5 where Jesus said,
“But I will warn you whom you should fear: fear Him Who, after killing, has power to hurl into hell (Gehenna); yes, I say to you, fear Him!”
Wait, what? God killing?
Upon reading...
There's a difference between loving people and...
diplateevo:
One becomes stressful while the other becomes fufilling.
One focuses on people’s perception of you while the other focuses on your perception of other people.
One is driven by fear while the other spreads love.
One is about you while the other is about others.
One looks for what you can get while the other looks for how you can give.
“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
– Shane Claiborne
// because this needed to be reblogged again.
(via favoredgrace)
"visionless"
Someone asked this (somewhere in the land of facebook):
I’ve just come to the sad realisation that Facebook and Tumblr are all I di with my life these days besides church. I have lost all motivation to do anything else. I don’t even know where to go from here. Everything is slanting sideways and nothing looks the same. I want to run away to a distant country and live there instead....
April 2012
13 posts
“Your sins are not covered by the blood of Jesus—They’ve been...”
– Jeff Turner
“Jesus healed on the Sabbath so they couldn’t say the worked for it.”
– Pete Cabrera
apathy & lukewarmness.
jwhoaaa:
There is more to being a young Christian than small groups, coffee dates, and 20 minute devos. There is more to it than serving at church, being on worship team, or accountability partners. Or trying to figure out what career path He wants you to take, and who He wants you to marry.
Dare I say, there is more to being a young Christian than our personal walk with Jesus. It is being...
What Love is This?
originally posted here:
http://www.iamaspirit.org/archives/2474
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I used to hear a lot of girls say, “Ooh, I’m so in LOVE with God!”
It always bothered me…but I couldn’t really put my finger on it. For some reason I just had a very hard time believing that girls would say that the exact same way I heard other girls talk about their new boyfriend.
I loved God. But, it...
You are no longer a dirty wretched sinner if you...
You have been MADE the righteousness of God (2 Cor 5:21). You have been REBORN with a new identity (John 3). You DIED to sin and it’s desires and were MADE ALIVE to God and His desires the moment His spirit took up residence in you (Romans 6).
Do not cheapen what God has said about you. He has called you CLEAN. He has called you sanctified. (Heb 10:10)
Your actions DO NOT dictate your...
approved.
If you never realize how already valued, accepted, and loved you are by your Father, you will constantly look for it from other people.
You will constantly think and wonder why, “nobody loves me”, “my needs aren’t getting met”, “this church isn’t loving”, “my parent’s don’t value me”, “nobody cares”, and on and...
This guy is giving away $1001 as an experiment. No... →
“It’s not about preaching the word, it’s about BECOMING the word.
...”
– Dan Mohler
March 2012
6 posts
Stomping grounds
Yesterday we did a house call with an elder from the church we’re holding the meeting at.
He had a tumor in his stomach the size of a lemon. We ‘aggressively’ prayed and told the thing to go and after just a few minutes we told him to check himself.
He felt his stomach and told us he couldn’t find it anymore.
He confirmed later that night at the meeting, he still...
The Father’s house is full of orphans. It is full of sons and daughters striving for their Father’s approval and working for His affection, not knowing that they are already fully loved and accepted sons and daughters. Not servants. Not slaves. Not orphans.
The Father loves you in such a way that He knows the deepest truth about who you are and He rejoices in it. He loves you in...
why you don't like our education system:
A hundred and fifty years ago, adults were incensed about child labor. Low-wage kids were taking jobs away from hardworking adults. Sure, there was some moral outrage about seven-year-olds losing fingers and being abused at work, but the economic rationale was paramount. Factory owners insisted that losing child workers would be catastrophic to their industries and fought hard to keep the kids at...