June 2012
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And now to him who is able to keep us from falling, and lift us from the dark valley of despair to the bright mountain of hope, from the midnight of desperation to the daybreak of joy; to him be power and authority, for ever and ever.
-Martin Luther King Jr.
May 2012
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My heart hurts
I could use prayers from the Saints. For peace in surrender. Thanks so much dear friends.
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kissedbyglory:
“Missions is MUCH more than social justice documentaries & leisure travel. A generation is rising to fully embody Isaiah 61.”
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Sean Feucht
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Doxology
All you big things bless the Lord Mount Kilimanjaro and Lake Victoria The Rift Valley and the Serengeti Plain Fat baobabs and shady mango trees All eucalyptus and tamarind trees Bless the Lord Praise and extol him for ever and ever. All you tiny things bless the Lord Busy black ants and hopping fleas Wriggling tadpoles and mosquito larvae Flying locusts and water drops Pollen dust and tsetse flies...
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Augustine of Hippo, a fifth-century bishop and theologian, wrote, “The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, if it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we...
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jspark3000:
“God created us to live with a single passion, to joyfully display His supreme excellence in all the spheres of life. The wasted life is the life without this passion.”
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John Piper (via brotatochipdelight)
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WatchMy brother, Jacob, sharing his testimony of God’s faithfulness and kindness in healing his ears at training camp. :)
Wherever you’re at, I pray you are hit with a fire—with an overwhelming awareness of the presence of God. Come, Holy Spirit, fill your children with peace and joy overflowing. Papa, touch your sons and daughters and affirm their worth to you. May they know the depth of your delight in them and the freedom and full joy found in your presence, amen.
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DECLARATION →
This was spoken over us at Training Camp and needs to be shared.
We have decided that teaching the Gospel without demonstrating the Gospel is not enough.
Good preaching, good doctrine, being good people, it’s not enough. We have decided that having a good church club is not enough. Good fellowship, it’s not enough.
We have decided that having good programs is not enough.
That...
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shannonicole:
“Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.”
— Soren Kierkegaard (via chelsatonic)
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“You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.”
-Charles de Foucauld
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“O Lord, I am yours. Do what seems good in your sight, and give me complete resignation to your will.”
David Livingstone
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Are we going to die with prayers in our journals or living out the will and voice of the Sovereign One?
Your comfort zone is not the same as discernment.
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“Jesus, may your scandalous, measureless, irrepressible love for us be manifest...”
– Scotty Smith (via evenso-itiswell)
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“Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; Teach me to serve thee as thou deservest; To give and not to count the cost, To fight and not to heed the wounds, To toil and not to seek for rest, To labor and not to seek reward, Save that of knowing that I do thy will.”
St. Ignatius of Loyola
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Open my eyes that they may see, the deepest needs of men; Move my hands that they may feed, the hungry;
Touch my heart that it may bring warmth, To the despairing;
Teach me the generosity, That welcomes strangers;
Let me share my possessions, To clothe the naked;
Give me the care, that strengthens the sick;
Make me share in the quest, to set the prisoners free;
In sharing our anxieties and...
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Compassion is Incarnational
shannonicole:
“Jesus’ whole life and mission involve accepting powerlessness and revealing in this powerlessness the limitlessness of God’s love. Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the underprivileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make...
Anonymous asked: science really opens my eyes to how amazing God is.
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Wild Elephants gather inexplicably, mourn death of... →
organicsomethings:
…mourn with those who mourn. Even creation gets it. Our Creator truly has some wondrous works.
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“O God,
You have sown the seed of love in my heart but I have not watered it with my tears— Lord, forgive.
You have shown me hungry children and I have fed only my friends— Lord, forgive.
You have shown me the homeless and I have cared only for my own home— Lord, forgive.
You have shown me the naked but I have only clothed myself— Lord, forgive.
You have shown me...
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: i know that mother’s day is a hard day for some... →
mayhopearise:
i know that mother’s day is a hard day for some people.
possibly you gave your baby up for adoption. possibly you are a single mom. possibly your mother died when you were young. possibly your mom isn’t in the picture for a number of reasons.
every time a holiday approaches, i can’t help but…
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“O Lord, open my eyes that I may see the need of others, open my ears that I may hear their cries, open my heart so that they need not be without succor. Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich. Show me where love and hope and faith are needed, and use me to bring them to these places. Open...
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“Lord, teach me to pray, to want to pray, to delight to pray. When I pray, teach me to pray with faith, with hope, with love. Let me make prayer my first work, my persistent work, my most important work; work that I do for you, for others, for the whole world. Let my prayer be a channel for your love, your grace, your peace for those for whom I pray, and for myself, O dear and blessed...
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“O God, be all my love, all my hope, all my striving: Let my thoughts and words flow from you.”
- John Cassian
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“Poverty is rooted in broken relationships, so the solution to poverty is rooted in the power of Jesus’ death and resurrection to put all things in right relationship again.”
Brian Fikkert, When Helping Hurts
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“Attempts to minimize God’s sovereignty in suffering deny the testimony of Scripture and destroy the hope of sufferers.”
-David Platt
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“Eliminating intractable poverty is not likely something that governments or the UN will accomplish. These powers can only affect the economic and perhaps the infrastructural portion of the equation. To really dig deeply into the wound of poverty will require thousands of healthy “blood cells” who will take on the entrenched viruses of culture, personal sin and spiritual forces...
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the sweeter melody: Godly Men and Impostor Boys →
thesweetermelody:
Yesterday, I realised something profound. I realised what the main relational significance was between a man chasing after the things of God, and a boy trying to play the former with impressive theology. It’s simply this: the man of God wants a woman of God as a spouse. Above all, he wants the…
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Watchalycegilligan:
N.T. Wright covering Bob Dylan. As if I didn’t already respect this guy so much …
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jspark3000:
“The universe shudders in horror that we have this infinitely valuable, infinitely deep, infinitely rich, infinitely wise, infinitely loving God, and instead of pursuing him with steadfast passion and enthralled fury — instead of loving him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength; instead of attributing to him glory and honor and praise and power and wisdom and strength — we just...
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Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him… To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts...
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Christian, Go Low
“So I would close by simply saying to all believers who have the amazing standing as children of God and representatives of Jesus: Because Jesus went low, and because going low is the path of joy and because you are completely clean, don’t exalt yourself, but go low in humble service. Pastors, go low. Elders, go low. Heads of households, go low. Small group leaders, go low. Presidents of...
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kissedbyglory:
“Are you satisfied being filled with good information about God, or do you long to burst into His manifest presence?”
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A.W. Tozer
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“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
Søren Kierkegaard
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sketchmedesire:
“Jesus never mentioned homosexuality once. How has it become such an issue? Strange. Strange how all the things that Jesus actually did talk about fail to become issues. I mean, you start talking about war, and conservative Christians say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be political and protest the war.’ Or you talk about poverty and the causes of poverty. ‘Oh, that’s a political issue;...
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Give me more faith, give me more faith, give me more faith, give me more faith, give me more faith, give me more faith!
