Dec
14th
Mon
14th
I am a campus missionary and
I play the guitar.
I am desperately trying to get students at
Arizona State
to think about Jesus.
Also, I like to pray.
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Dec
13th
Sun
13th
Some of them are church attenders and church
members, even leaders. But they are not born again. They are
cultural Christians. Religion is a formal, external thing. There has
been no true inner awakening from spiritual death to spiritual life.
members, even leaders. But they are not born again. They are
cultural Christians. Religion is a formal, external thing. There has
been no true inner awakening from spiritual death to spiritual life.
—
John Piper, Finally Alive
God, wake us up.
Dec
9th
Wed
9th
Today, my friend told me she didn’t mind being legally blind, with only 12% of her vision. She said, “After it rains there’s usually a dew left on the grass. And because of the way my eyes refract the light, I see rainbows in the grass.
—
MMT (via kathylee)
Wow… I’ve never heard a more perfect example of God’s grace.
Dec
8th
Tue
8th
The place where God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner
Amazing Grace by Philip Yancey
“In a scene from the movie Ironweed, the characters played by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep stumble across an old Eskimo woman lying in the snow, probably drunk. Besotted themselves, the two debate what they should do about her.
“‘Is she drunk or a bum?’ asks Nicholson.
‘Just a bum. Been one all her life.’
‘And before that?’
‘She was a whore in Alaska.’
Dec
1st
Tue
1st
The next generation of Christian servants is more globally aware, more widely traveled, more cyberspace connected, and more easily enlisted in short-term service safaris. However, they are reeling from their own personal hurts, including a range of destructive consequences from the fragmentation of their own families. These wounded warriors are thus wary of long-term commitments.
—
Ronald T. Habermas. His main point in this particular essay was that the upcoming generation of Christians must not shy away from long-term service despite the overwhelming brokenness caused by divorce and other issues plaguing our generation. I thought this was interesting considering what I posted the other day by a non-Christian from The Atlantic:
The unpleasant reality—an inadequate paycheck, a pregnant daughter, a recession—is invisible. It’s your ability to see beyond such things, your willing blindness to even the most hopeless-seeming circumstances, that makes you a certain kind of modern Christian, and a 21st-century American.— Hanna Rosin, from the article “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?”
(via laurenseegar)
Absolutely stunning analysis of this generation’s fear of commitment. Lord, heal our broken orphans and fragmented hearts
