February 2012
4 posts
We must all strive to praise God for his holiness.
For when we praise God for his love, we are praising him because he loves us. When we praise God for his mercy, we are praising him that it reaches us. When we praise God for his grace, we are praising him because it covered a multitude of our own sins. When we praise him for being our King, we are praising him for bringing us into a kingdom....
I want to go Home...
I heard a question asked the other day, “What do you want more than anything?”
The more I thought about the question the more everything but home quickly fled my thoughts. I thought about traveling, about the place I know live, about friend I now have and friends now gone. But they all quickly faded away to the thought of going home.
I am a southern boy, I was raised in Alabama and...
If it’s not Grace it’s not the Gospel.
“So when we say that God loves His Son, we are not talking about a love that is...”
– John Piper
January 2012
21 posts
“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the...”
– C.S. Lewis~Till We Have Faces
“We must learn not to fear anything that nature brings”
– C.S. Lewis
“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission...”
– David Livingstone
Harvest Evangelism: What would happen if we truly... →
harvestevangelism:
What would happen if we truly began to pray as the prophets of hold had done. Daniel prayed three times a day towards a city that God told him he would never see, but he prayed for it to be put back in it’s place of prominence. Knowing that the prayers would not be answered in his lifetime. In his…
“If you’re willing to dream big and pray hard and think long, you might...”
– Mark Batterson
i wish we hung out on the weekends and swapped... →
seasidewindows:
Psalm 51
Me and a friend or two will be spending the next few mornings in prayer from 8 till 9. Anyone is welcome to join for part or all of it. If you know where I live then your welcome to meet me there and if you don’t text/e-mail/message me and I’ll give you directions.
cheers
Does Jesus Hate Religion? Kinda, Sorta, Not Really →
This is a really wonderful article written about the YouTube video that has been popping up all over the place the past few days. I know it is a long read but is very much worth the time it will take you to read it.
for any of you who know me personally on any sort of spiritual level then you know that i would consider myself reformed, at least for the most part. i believe that through all my years of sin and trying to do enough good to justify myself Christ was chasing me. through all my searching the reason that Jesus stayed in the back of my mind was not that my father was a minister or that i kept a bible...
“We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s...”
– Mark Batterson
Josh Garrels the Resistance
“The Holy Spirit doesn’t exalt a human. He isn’t there to give an experience for...”
– ~Nick Bogardus
2012 Missions Video →
“If anyone is interested in going on a mission trip with Harvest Evangelism this...”
– (via harvestevangelism)
You should join me on one of these trips…
http://harvestevangelism.tumblr.com/post/1537405263... →
harvestevangelism:
So the new year is here. A week ago the idea of a “new” one was on the lips of both young and old, people both light skinned and dark. We as people long for something new. We chase the idea of it, listen to songs about it, watch movies and read books of other people finding something new. We…
“Doesn’t it make a great difference whether I am, so to speak, the...”
– C.S. Lewis
So this is the new year...
Sitting in a small house on the outskirts of Tampa that could double as a small museum is fast becoming my new years tradition. And I couldn’t be happier. Last night as time turned her back on another old year for the sake of one younger I was happily far away from crowds and noise of people. All I could think of was a year now gone and a year now here.
As I praise Christ for what He did...
December 2011
6 posts
“There is no ladder to holiness: there is us and Him. Justifying one’s life...”
– K.B (via catchabeene)
“Happy Birthday Jesus.
thanks for all you have done for me.”
2 tags
“Merit is a work for the sake of which Christ gives rewards. But no such work is...”
– Martin Luther
i fear the Lord...
“And he said to them, ‘I am a Hebrew, and I fear the LORD, the God of heaven, who made the sea and the dry land.” ~Johan 1:9
If you have know me for any amount of time and we have spoken on any level of spiritual things then I’m sure that you have heard me express my love for the story of Johan. But today as I sat in an empty mission van I began to read the story again....
1,125 miles
for many people Christmas means buying gifts and putting up lights. but for me around the time set aside to celebrate the incarnation of the third member of the trinity means long drives and fast pasted days.
i am currently sitting in my favorite border town coffee shop trying to keep my eyes from getting heavy. of the last 24 hours i spent around 16-18 of them headed south from auburn, alabama...
G.O.S.P.E.L. →
November 2011
4 posts
space →
“Holy Lord, I have sinned times without number, and been guilty of pride and...”
– a puritan prayer
“On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge...”
– John Calvin
The sound was all too familiar. A long intro to that ended with the sound of a beginning behind to play. I could quickly tell that 2 or 3 of the kids had been playing for a while and the others should still be practicing in a garage somewhere. But the tune was familiar, How Great is our God.
As the intro music began to fade into the first verse of the song my heart sank. For once again I had sat...
October 2011
5 posts
I once heard it said that the greatest apologetic for the Christian faith is the Christian community. For a long time that wasn’t true in my life, even much of my life as a Christian, but things of such importance have a way of settling out the way they should.
Tonight gave every indication of being like every other night this semester. I would run around during the day, set up for TheWay,...
“Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner...”
– Clive Staples Lewis
“It is the Father’s other self who on the cross in human form doth bleed...”
– Charles Haddon Spurgeon
All aboard the Grace Train
I finally gave into Christ on that cold summer afternoon on the Irish cliffs a few years back I was exited. Exited about grace. Because, after all, grace meant I was allowed to do what I wanted-when I wanted-and why I wanted to do them…Right? I lived this way for quite sometime. Sinning all the time and still believing that I was better than those around me. I tried to get them to accept...
last night i sat on a small green chair in a living room on the outskirts of auburn listening a small town evangelist make a call for the church in America to get “away from the edge” and come back to holiness. as much as i agree with the thought that the church in this country going too far in the name of relating to sinners, i could not agree with what he said. his call was to leave...
September 2011
2 posts
i haven’t written on here in quite some time. part of that is due to busyness, part is that i feel i have nothing to say and the rest is being too lazy when i feel like i do.
but as it often is when i put my thoughts down on here, it is late and all my work for the day is done with the exception of a few chapters in a good book. there is a lot running through my head right now, so many...
Anonymous asked: Part II: I pray that he not lose hope or confidence, but that he keep his sight on Your Kingdom, for it is for Your kingdom that we should do all things. I ask that You keep your mighty hand upon him and that Your compassion and love illuminate his soul so that others may see a life lived for You and ultimately a reflection of You! This I ask you for the glory of your Kingdom. Let it be so...
August 2011
4 posts
another long walk
every year my pops loads up a van and old rickety travel trailer and heads off. not for a vacation or time with friends. but a walk spent mostly alone.
more than a decade ago we were in mexico for one of our many mission trips, this particular trip was right before christmas and the moment of the trip that started all this was the last one of the last day before the grueling drive back home. a...
TheWay
i will be starting up a “coffee house” type ministry this fall in downtown auburn on friday and saturday nights. we will open our doors at 8pm and have a meal and some hang-out time. after a while of that we will have a service; worship, communion and sermon. around midnight we will have our group divide up…most of us will stay and enjoy whatever band, poetry or even the odd...
July 2011
2 posts
I am on interstate 10 headed back home. Another trip to Mexico, one of more than 100 I have taken. It’s at the point now where I know my way around the area and kids call my name when I hop out of the van. But this trip was different than any I have ever had. Not because of what was there but because of what was in my head.
In a few short weeks I will be in charge of meetings that will be...
would you consider helping a family have a home
i will be headed down to mexico in the next few days. i am used to going a few times a year with teams of up to 180 people at a time. but this year we’ll have less than 30. this is in direct relation to the drug war being fought there. i can understand people wanting to be safe and for that reason we only go places where we can assure our group will be safe.
while we are down there we...
June 2011
5 posts
in a society where churches have far to often become social clubs where have we gone wrong. i often find myself becoming angry about this and for a while i felt like i shouldn’t. but i don’t think that way anymore. i am angry. i will stay angry.
as a christian i try to look to Jesus for an example of how to live, and he never wrote a blog or drove a car. he never ventured more than...
