here i am, send me

http://vimeo.com/37896298

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:36:41 +0000

http://vimeo.com/37896298

"India 2012 update 2"

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:51:11 +0000

"India 2012 update 2"

"It’s all for the glory of God, and the souls of men"

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 14:33:31 +0000

“It’s all for the glory of God, and the souls of men”

We must all strive to praise God for his holiness. For when we praise God for his love, we are...

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:47:26 +0000

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. When we praise him for being our father, we are praising him because we are no longer orphans. In everything but God holiness we are praising him because what he is makes us better, but when we can praise him for his holiness we know that it is really him we are praising. Not what he has, or what he could give.

I want to go Home...

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:23:23 +0000

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 the cowboy boots and open doors didn’t give it away the tattoo of a yellowhammer, Alabama’s state bird, drawn across my chest would. But Alabama isn’t home. It hasn’t been for some time now. Home is where your mind drifts when you feel homesick in your own bed in your own house. Like the old cliche, home is where the heart is. And as a Christian home can be no other place than heaven. Home is a city where, as Revelations puts it, there is no sun…for the Son will be their light. And God will dwell with men, an they shall be His people and He shall be their God.
When Peter decided to sit down and pen a letter to the churches in the 1st century he addresses it to the elect in exile. His letter would be read to people who had gotten out of their own beds, walked out of their houses through their cities to their churches. Looking at it from a worldly perspective these people were not in exile, but home. But Peter saw something that many could not. Their place of exile was not the place they slept or the city they lived in, but the world they had been placed on. He was in essence telling these people, “to those who belong to the world you have longed for.”
In our lives many of us have desires for needs are not met, and adventures not had. And much of that can be solved from truly living a biblical Christian life. Much of it is a desire for a city never seen and a Father who mortal eyes can not behold. C. S. Lewis once said, “If I have desires that this world can not fulfill I must then assume that I was made another.”

Paul said he longed for Heaven above all, but would gladly suffer earth for a little while longer if it meant that God could use him to bring more people home. This must be our prayer. And if we can’t honestly say it what if we all prayed together, “Jesus I don’t want Heaven more than a wife/husband, more than a nice house, job, family, salary, team or life. Oh, but Jesus I want to want it.”

I dare you to pray that, and if you do…I promise that a nice spouse, a nice house, a nice job or family will be worth nothing that glorious day when you stand before Jesus. When you look Him in the eyes for the very first time. I want to know that I gave all. I want to k ow that I lived a life of no reserves, no retreats and no regrets. And I want you to staff before Him and know the same.

Home is a city with a King. Home is Heaven, home is to be where there is no need of a sun, because we walk hand in hand with the Son.

If it’s not Grace it’s not the Gospel.

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:45:04 +0000

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 self-denying,..."

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:42:52 +0000

“So when we say that God loves His Son, we are not talking about a love that is self-denying, sacrificial, or merciful. We are talking about a love of delight and pleasure. God is not stooping to pity the undeserving when He loves His Son. That is how He loves us. It is not how He loves His Son. He is well pleased with His Son. His soul delights on the Son! When He looks at His Son He enjoys and admires and cherishes and prizes and relishes what He sees. The first great pleasure of God is His pleasure on the Son”

- John Piper

"When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at..."

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:28:00 +0000

““When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you’ll not talk about joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”

- C.S. Lewis~Till We Have Faces

minimalmovieposters: The Hobbit by Bart van Ackooij

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:21:47 +0000

minimalmovieposters:

The Hobbit by Bart van Ackooij

"We must learn not to fear anything that nature brings"

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:07:42 +0000

“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 by a Heavenly King be..."

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:24:41 +0000

“If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?”

- David Livingstone

Harvest Evangelism: What would happen if we truly began to pray as the prophets of hold...

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:20:16 +0000

Harvest Evangelism: What would happen if we truly began to pray as the prophets of hold...:

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 just bring kings to..."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:03:48 +0000

“If you’re willing to dream big and pray hard and think long, you might just bring kings to their knees and shut the mouths of lions.”

- Mark Batterson

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:56:16 +0000

i wish we hung out on the weekends and swapped stories of days gone past

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:00:11 +0000

i wish we hung out on the weekends and swapped stories of days gone past

seasidewindows: Psalm 51

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:41:47 +0000

seasidewindows:

Psalm 51

Me and a friend or two will be spending the next few mornings in prayer from 8 till 9. Anyone is...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:26:55 +0000

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

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:41:14 +0000

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...

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:11:22 +0000

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 in the corner of my room. it was because, as paul says in ephesians chaper one, Christ had predestined me from the foundations of the world.

when i finally stopped running, the reason Christ was there is that He stayed a pace behind me for year. the darker it got, Christ was there. when i picked up my pace, Christ did as well. when i cured God in the middle of a field, Christ was even there.

so i began to listen to His voice instead of curse His name. i picked up a bible and began to read. and the more i read the more i saw that i had not chosen Christ, He had chosen me long before i was even born. long before my parents or even grandparents were born. and it was there that i truly fell in love. i loved Him because He first loved me. at that point it was easy for me to listen to Christ when we spoke to me, about me. but it was far harder to listen when he spoke to me about my friends.

i could hear the Lord whisper in my ear, “you are my son, and i will let you sit with me on my throne” and believe it to be true only because it had been etched withing the pages of scripture. but after i while i began to loose hope for my friends. those of whom i shared my darkest days and deepest pits. i had tried to “save” them myself. to drag them to Christ with the same tactics that i had laughed of during my days of revelry. i tried to be their functional messiah and had failed at every turn…but one.

when i felt like giving up i would often offer of a prayer of desperation, and honestly they would often be half-hearted. but tonight, as with many other times when God is added to the equation of life, what i could never force or make happen simply began to unravel.

a friend of mine who i had given up all hope, save the prayers i offered up and never expected to see the answers of, came over and began to tell of the ways that God has been pulling him back after years of running. as we sat together both fighting back the tears that would eventually come for the both of us i was not able to help him in the least. but i was able to bring to the place where help can always be found. i walked him through the pages of scripture, and offer up a silent prayer. i thanked God for answering the prayers i prayed for my friend. and could do little more than be reminded of what Jesus said in the book of john.

“For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
~the gospel of john
chapter six
verse thirty-eight through forty

"We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief..."

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:34:16 +0000

“We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory. And sometimes His gain involves a little pain.”

- Mark Batterson