February 2012
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Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don’t wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance and nice homes. They want for you cars and respect. I want for you the same thing I want for my son. That one day he takes a banner — the banner of Jesus Christ. And he places it on a hill where no one has ever placed the banner before. And...
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comeupfromthewilderness:
“Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?”
— AW Tozer (via favoredgrace)
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Confession: I use to love comic sans in elementary school. Will my graphic designing friends still be friends with me?
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GPOY: New book (sort of):
Fire Within by Fr. Thomas Dubay: St. Teresa of Avila, St. John of the Cross, and the Gospel on Prayer
I’ve been hooked on Tropical Smoothies Very Berry Green Tea recently, mmm too legit to quit.*
Peanut Butter, honey, & banana flatbreads/bagels/sandwiches/etc are still the greatest.
Be expecting some posts from Fire Within as things stand out.
Stay...
January 2012
365 posts
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
-Francis Schaeffer
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Thank you for the sincere replies to my “To My Future Spouse” post, haha. I probably owe all of the sincere repliers an apology, so here’s that. I’m sort of cynical when it comes to pop-culture Christianity and Stuff Christians Like in general. Okay, that is all.
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invisibleforeigner:
“‘Well, Master Samwise, how do you feel?’ But Sam lay back, and stared with open mouth, and for a moment, between bewilderment and great joy, he could not answer. At last he gasped: ‘Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What’s happened to the world?’ ‘A great shadow has departed’ said Gandalf, and then...
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As the experience of the centuries attests, true transformations in the world and in the Church continue to come about only through the interventions of men and women on fire—that is, through saints. The evidence is overwhelming…Indeed, at this very moment, deep and lasting changes in the Church are being brought about by a faithful few who are burning interiorly as a consequence of...
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No one can attain an ecstatic joy in God without giving up paltry, self-centered pleasures in things less than God. People who reject Gospel detachment cannot have clearly thought it through. Like the adolescent who sees little value in Dante or Shakespeare or Michelangelo because comic strips have captured his fancy, the adult who discounts evangelical detachment cannot have experienced the...
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It was from her experiences of the transcendence, beauty and power of God that the saint most of all learned that finite reality is precisely that, limited, and next to God is nothing at all. She had so deeply drunk of purest delight, beauty and love that to return to ordinary life, good as it is in itself, was a pain to her.
O my delight, Lord of all created things and my God! How long must I...
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There is nothing lukewarm about the God of revelation. Always radical and total, never does He reduce what He expects of us to fractions. Our communion with Him is to become a blazing fire, a perpetual ecstasy. These strong words will sound strange and exaggerated only to those who have not tasted that the Lord is good. They may have studied and read, but they have not drunk deeply.
Thomas...
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How many Christians really harbor within their own spirit the daily expectation of God’s presence?
A.W. Tozer
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Had a great chat with James tonight at the Sun Shoppe. We spoke about issues in our lives and the spiritual discipline of silence. So here I was, arriving to a park, darkness surrounding me, clouds swiftly moving like a speedtrain. Trying to quiet and still my extroverted and busy-bodied self. It was extremely uncomfortable; silence and solitude bringing to the surface inner conflicts,...
classyliving:
How I long for those tears to flow down my face. Maybe then I will know that my heart is thawing.
I can relate, brother.
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“We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God… Silence is nothing else but waiting for God’s Word and coming from God’s Word with a blessing. But everybody knows that this is something that needs to be practiced and learned.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, p. 79.
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I think the “To My Future Spouse” thing is stupid. Does that make me a bad Christian?
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“Time spent in quiet prostration of soul before the Lord is most invigorating… Quietude, which some men cannot abide, because it reveals their inner poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty designs to walk… Priceless as the gift of utterance may be, the practice of silence in some aspects far excels it. Do you think me a...
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If God appears indifferent to wickedness, his goodness is challenged. Yet if he acts to punish sin, his love is in question. Silly, silly people we are.
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The key to prayer, is simply praying.
A.W. Tozer
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Anonymous asked: Why is there evil in this world when you claim that there is an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God?
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Just had a conversation about 10 minutes ago how this sleepy time tea doesn’t work for me. And all of a sudden I got so extremely sleepy. So maybe this works after all. Night, Planet Tumblr!
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solideogloriaa:
“What you don’t have in Buddhism and Islam, Confucianism, Shintoism, Taoism, and these other religions, is an atonement. You don’t have a way of redemption that we have in Christianity, nor do you have a living mediator. Moses is dead, Buddha is dead, Confucius is dead, and Mohammed is dead. There is no resurrection in these other religions. Christianity has elements to it,...
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Frequently Asked Questions
Name: Michael Earl Clevenger II
DOB: October 24, 1991
Hometown: I was born in Cape Coral, FL
Current: Melbourne, FL
Ethnicity: Filipino
The purpose of this blog: “My chief desire in all my writings is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of the people. -J.C. Ryle
I would like this blog to serve as a catalyst to zeal for the glory,...
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“Give the Bible the honor due to it every day you live. And beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day.”
-J.C. Ryle
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No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.
-David Brainerd
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I repent of ever having recorded one single song, and ever having performed one concert, if my music, and more importantly, my life has not provoked you into Godly jealousy or to sell out more completely to Jesus!
Keith Green
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helloevening:
Sucré- When We Were Young
What...
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invisibleforeigner:
“I believe that the word gospel has been hijacked by what we believe about ‘personal salvation,’ and the gospel itself has been reshaped to facilitate making ‘decisions.’ The results of this hijacking is that the word gospel no longer means in our world what it originally meant to either Jesus or the apostles.”
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Scot McKnight, The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News...
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mewithoutYou: Messes of Men
“I do not...
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God is so vastly, so utterly and completely delightful that He can, without anything other than Himself, meet and overflow the deepest demands of our total nature, mysterious and deep as that nature is.
A.W. Tozer
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The bible was written in tears, and to tears it yields its best treasures.
A.W. Tozer
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invisibleforeigner:
“Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.”
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Hans Urs von Balthasar, Love Alone is Credible
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The just shall live by faith The just shall live by faith The just shall live by faith
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conformingtotheson:
“Our present progressive sanctification is evidence of our past justification, and strengthens our assurance of future glorification.”
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Paul Washer
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Anonymous asked: Have you ever read any N.T Wright?
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I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low state.
A.W. Tozer
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I pray that I will be willing to let my Christian experience and standards cost me something right down to my last gasp.
A.W. Tozer
Anonymous asked: would you define yourself as a fundamentalist?
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It is not possible to have a reasonable belief against miracles. Blaise Pascal
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Free Giveaway! Ravi Zacharias' Why Jesus →
jspark3000:
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What good is our busy religion if we’ve lost majesty, reverence, worship—an awareness of the divine?
A.W. Tozer
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The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses it’s origin and longs to return to its source.
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