June 2009
35 posts
The Both/And Approach to Doctrine
Try it. If there are two teachings in scripture that are evident why do we assume that they cannot both be true?
For example, we know that prayer has power and that God uses our prayers to make a difference in his plans. Yet at the same time, we know that God has preordained all things in accordance with his will. That makes absolutely no sense to me. At all. But I see both to be true.
God...
““Guys use relationships to get sex; girls use sex to get a...”
– Some choice quotes from my Sunday School teacher.
“God gave us a free will, not for us to misuse for our own selfish desire but to...”
– Izak van Zyl (via glovecompartment)
I can’t really say that I agree with this in a Biblical sense, but it sounds nice.
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the...”
– Emily Dickinson (via glovecompartment)
I love Dickenson. She seems like someone I could have just curled up with and watched a movie. Me an Emily. Shoot, now you got me daydreaming.
It’s like I’m not made for this world, but then I wouldn’t want to meet some one who was.
Is it weird that I like secular artists lyrics more frequently than Christian artists?
Divisions In The Church
christ-follower:
So after asking all of you earlier today what denomination you’re affiliated with, I found that the vast majority of you are technically affiliated with one denomination based on the church you go to, but are really uncomfortable with the divisions within Christianity. I mostly agree with this, but I also think that calling ourselves different “types” of Christians doesn’t have...
Flawed Metaphors
starkravingchristian:
My nephew is having really bad growing pains at the moment.
I’ve never heard of them being this bad, I mean, we’re talking agony. And he’s a tough little guy.
I was baby sitting the other day and he’s crying and I’m rubbing his back and he says:
“Auntie Sarai, I don’t want to grow up, it hurts too much.” In my head, I’m like, you’re telling me kid. Instead, I said:...
my mom's favorite thing to say
radiogolf:
“men think with their penises”
This made me laugh
A) Because it’s frequently true
B) Because a mom said it
C) Because more moms should
andhegetsthegirl:
wshngtn:
Cat Stevens- Peace...
I’m up foor some new bands. Anyone have any cool music they’ve been digging recently?
“Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay...”
– I Corinthians 7:8-9
I always thought it was funny that so many Christians aspire to get married when it’s really like a runner-up prize for people who can’t control themselves. I secretly laugh at couples sometimes.
I probably shouldn’t. It’s not kind.
2646.) I pray for my future husband every day.
glovecompartment:
(via blogsecret)
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So needed.
“Our calling is to enjoy God as well as glorify Him. Real fulfillment relates to...”
– Francis Schaeffer
One of the greats of the faith. I wish I could have met him.
I wish I could be that guy that you need, but I can’t, and I hate watching you drown. I’m a drug with all the wrong side-effects. But that doesn’t stop me from empathizing.
“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come....”
– Matthew 24:42-44 (via heckyeahjesus) (via christ-follower)
Ahh, if only we really understood these words. To live as if He might come back tomorrow. So convicting.
Poetry, oh Noetry
I wrote this poem a while ago. It still means a lot to me.
Goodnight my love, I pray thee sleep
And wander in dreams pleasant keep
To wake to mercies fresh each morn
and may new joys to you be born
Look at the star that shines o’er head
I pray, as you lie still in bed
‘though we have never met my love
I pray see me in star above
Look at me - a speck of light
Soon to be...
“Christianity started out in Palestine as a fellowship. Then it moved to Greece...”
– Richard Halverson, former chaplain to the U.S. Senate
“Secular science, which has grown into a great force, has investigated,...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.
2023.) I have no real friends.
(via blogsecret)
I read this site for an hour tonight and just felt. Ran through a whole range of emotions with these people who are baring their souls so honestly. I almost cried several times to see the hurt. Empathy is something I’m not great at but I guess I do have a heart somewhere in there.
As much as it offends the “romantic” in all of us, the heart must be rules by the mind.
The most romantic thing I could ever be told is that I was the best possible husband, so she let herself fall for me.
Christianity, in it’s effort to keep it’s youth abstinent, has suppressed sexuality beyond it’s limit, to the point of exploding. We have made sex a forbidden fruit, rather than a prize for purity.
Newbie
This is cool. I’m interested to see how things work out. Hopefully it won’t fall by the wayside like so many other failed blogs of mine.