February 2011
11 posts
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
“…The rich man…who held his things lightly and who did not let them nestle in his...”
– George MacDonald
“A growing chorus of critics accuses humanitarian-aid groups of using misery to...”
– TIMES articles, “Who Failed on Haiti’s Recovery?” By Romesh Ratnesar
balls are for kicking, not people. →
if only this message would have been more received. “a ball is a ball. a man is a man.” in essence, balls are for kicking, not people. so gnarly, that this is a message that has to be taught and explained. whether or not he was a good president.. that is a good message for a people to whom violence has become so accustom.
during my most recent trip to haiti, i spent so many hours repeating the...
“If all mankind had been righteous and only one man a sinner, Christ would have...”
– St. Augustine
“If a man loves all men passionately, but says only about one man that him he...”
– St. Macary
We are not just the victims of sin, we are...
“…Peter 2:24-25: he himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live in righteousness. by his wounds you have been healed, for you were straying like sheep and now have returned to shepherd and overseer of your souls. why did Jesus die? he bore our sins. we killed God. the greatest injustice in the history of the world was the crucifixion, the murder of...