November 2010
20 posts
Utmost
A lot of the times I want you for what you offer me.
Help me to not love the gifts more than the giver.
Be my utmost treasure.
Analog vs Digital
Do you think Christians will end their lives in digital or analog?
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Farewell Facebook.
I’m cutting you down because you’re a distraction.
Jesus, Here I come.
coward
Fear paralyzes.
Perfect Love casts out all fear.
Lord, I don’t want to be a coward.
Help me be obedient unto death.
“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What...”
– Philippians 3:7-11
“If God contains the fullness of all good things in himself like an inexhaustible...”
– Institutes of the Christian Religion - John Calvin
“A non-treasured Christ is a non-saving Christ.”
– Desiring God - John Piper
Juxtaposition
Random notes on what makes a good brand.
A ___________ is cutting edge and withstands the test of time. It appeals to the rich and also to ordinary people. It is desired by many and defined by an individual. It attracts attention and also causes controversy.
Can’t help but to think of the gospel.
Finishing the Race
FINISHING THE RACE “For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish” (Luke 14:28-30). Jesus spoke these words near the close of...
joy
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you - Psalm 51:12
Psalm 63
You, God, are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you,
in a dry and parched land
where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
I will be fully...
“The Mark of an authentic spiritual experience is that you become satisfied with...”
– Jonathan Edwards
Implications of the flesh
When my flesh rages and says,” I am worthless.” It is reinterpreted as, “God has not given me the success I desired; therefore, I don’t believe that he is good.”
“I have lost the most important thing in my life” could be reinterpreted as “God is not enough.”
“I can’t go on” becomes, “I don’t believe that God...
“I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”
– 1 Corinthians 2:2 NAS
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Brokenness
I don’t know… I don’t know who I am and where I am with You. Being hit with the reality of what’s coming, You have revealed to me the depth of deceit in my heart. I realized that my heart and mouth were on two different paths. I’ve been caught with hypocrisy. In my flesh, hear my cry Lord. Be merciful to me. You know my frame. You know the depths of my...
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foundations shaken
I was under a tall building and the pillars that kept it together started to crack and people kept walking underneath it, thinking it won’t … no one really paid attention cuz they were busy doing their own thing. (going on with business, in their suits, and high heels) Then there was an earthquake and it fell on top of the people. Then I woke up.
The Lord is warning the church and...
