February 2012
1 post
“Let the work of revival being with us who are Christians. Let us remove all the...”
– D.L. Moody’s To the Work
November 2011
2 posts
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him...”
– Stanley Donwood, artist and visual collaborator with Radiohead
““It is Finished!”
Nov 21, 2011
I have finished the work which You...”
– Oswald Chamber
October 2011
4 posts
“You might have walked past it a few times at your local mall and wondered how...”
– Haha! A description of Anthropologie by
stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
“Lord I know you’ll stay by my side
Forgive me for trying to hide
When you...”
– “By My Side” by Josh White
“If you don’t contextualize enough, no one’s life will be transformed because...”
– Tim Keller, as quoted by Christopher Lazo
“How I love the world, but not be worldly? … Genesis 49:22 defines what it means...”
– Josh White
September 2011
5 posts
Seeking Answers...
For all you who just graduated or are about to this coming year, let me share some simple truth, that I’m sure many of you have heard before on countless occasions. Right after I graduated this past summer, I moved abroad to begin what has developed into a year and a half commitment to working with on non-profit humanitarian organization that emphasizes sustainable development in the...
Oh the rich sweetness of wholesome talk and encouragement, seeking to glean wisdom and be increasingly purified— all which comes from Christ. May we be Christ-centered in our thought, speech and actions, seeking to renew our minds in coming to know and more clearly understand the Word that became flesh. May we speak life into one another. May the deep well-springs of our soul ring out with...
Thought-for-Thought
Since no two languages are identical, either in the meanings given to corresponding symbols or in the ways in which such symbols are arranged in phrases and sentences, it stands to reason that there can be no absolute correspondence between languages. Hence there can be no fully exact translations.
This article reminded me of why I love the NLT so much, as it delivers the Truth in an eloquent,...
“When political elections come down to who can claim to love God the most, we all...”
– “When religion becomes merely another political trick, we all lose.” Brian T. Kaylor on CNN Belief, http://ht.ly/6unh5
“The fulfillment of his desires did not come from worldly ambition, [nor] from...”
– John Crowder, The Jesus Trip, “Complacent for Jesus”.
August 2011
1 post
“Ministry, However, is simply about loving the person in front of you....”
– Heidi Baker
July 2011
1 post
"duvalier" update 7/12
im sitting here on my porch right now, as thunder roars and shakes the sky. lightning brightly flashes every couple of minutes. it’s 7:30.. i got back from anse-a-pitre about an hour ago.. decided to get a motoconcho ride back, because it was raining so hard and i had a little friend with me that i didnt want to have to make walk back the 20 minute journey in the downpour. the little friend...
June 2011
2 posts
a quick update
all is well here in the DR/Haiti, where I am at. i spent the day today driving a motorcycle around Anse-a-Pitres, Haiti and practicing my creole. i met a little girl (probably just a year and a half/ two years old) who can’t walk.. and so i have decided i want to work with her everyday from now on and do some physical therapy so we can strengthen her legs and get her walking! tomorrow i am...
“The more you know him, the better you will trust him; the more you trust him,...”
– John Newton
May 2011
6 posts
“The fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22 have seemed too soft and too...”
– Kent Annan
“Simone Weil was a twentieth-century French theologian, philosopher and activist...”
– Kent Annan
“Our love for truth can help protect us from ourselves and from worshiping an...”
– Kent Annan
“Every free movement of the will is possible only by virtue of the more...”
– David Hart
“Before we get to the kingdom, we have to go through the cross… There is no...”
– Mark Driscoll, “The Coming of the Kingdom”
“The Father does not intend to deal with you according to your failures, but...”
– Britt Merrick— “Ismael-people and Isaac-people”
April 2011
5 posts
“Already in 1979 I was working in the context of liberation theology, and there...”
– Peter Hallward
“The good samaritan is not simply one’s who’s heart is touch to do an...”
– Rev. James Forbes
May We Live in the Love and the Fear of God, At...
John Mark Comer, in a sermon on 1 Corinthians, speaks of the fear and the love of God.
When staying in Pacific City, “…I always hike out to the cape. If you have not been there, you need to go. It jets way out into the ocean. It’s like rock and gorgeous and crazy and beautiful. And I love to go out there. You go and you hike up around the no trespassing sign and you go, and to...
“Economic growth is a prerequisite to development, but it is insufficient....”
– Leonel Fernandez, President of the Dominican Republic, speaking at CSIS conference.
“It is as we ponder doctrinal truth worshipfully, continually applying what we...”
– Tim Keller
March 2011
2 posts
God never punishes His children (because Christ took the fullness of the Father’s wrath on our behalf), yet He does lovingly disciple His children, for our benefit and growth. This discipline yields the peaceful fruit of rightness— that we may partake in His holiness.
“Women’s issues are not women’s issue, but issues of democracy,...”
– Condoleeza Rice on Human Rights and Women’s Issues.
February 2011
11 posts
“Your mind is not good enough. You need the grace of God strengthening you,...”
– Paul Washer
“Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of...”
– John Piper
“[The missionary is called to announce] … a salvation and liberation coming from...”
– Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered.
“To accept any system as gospel is to accept the limits of that system, to refuse...”
– Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered.
God created through speaking.
There is no greater demonstration of integrity.
His words became reality.
If we are not overcome and overwhelmed by the way Christ has loved us, we will never be able to love one another rightly. We can’t just imitate Him; we need Him working within us. For it is “the love of Christ [that] compels [us].”
“The resounding evidence of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life is the...”
– Oswald Chambers
“Are You Exhausted Spiritually?
Feb 09, 2011
The everlasting God …...”
– My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers
“One of the most amazing revelations of God comes to us when we learn that it is...”
– Oswald Chambers
Live Like a Family
We are not called to judge people outside the Church, but instead, those inside the Church.
Therefore, judgment is not religious hypocricy— standing at a distance and criticizing those who have yet to hear the truth or are not a part of the Family of God; but rather, in love, and in relationship, speak the truth and the need for repentance.
& first deal with the sin in your own...
January 2011
16 posts
“The genocide was a collective act. What made it possible was the absence—...”
– Dr. James Orbinkski, speaking of the genocide in Rwanda, in Triage: Dr. James Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma.
“From the end of WWII, we began to abolish empire. The U.S. which had few...”
– Documentary: The End of Poverty?
Break Every Chain!
Isaiah 5:18 What sorrow for those who drag their sins behind them with ropes made of lies, who drag wickedness behind them like a cart!
ropes made of lies… what powerful language. the Lord is so good to reveal our sins and the ways in which we cling to them and idolize them as bondage rooted in lies. i pray for all of us that He would continue to expose the lies we are so quick to believe,...
It's all about knowing Him!
Isaiah 5:13 So my people will go into exile far away because they do not know me. Those who are great and honored will starve, and the common people will die of thirst.
“The harsh realities of today compel us re-conceived and reformulate the...”
– David Bosch
“What might it mean to “redeem” our time? The word has the sense of buying...”
– “Time Worship” by Johnathan Kana