September 2011
1 post
“I want to suggest still another image (for the identity of a Pastor): the poet....”
– M. Craig Barnes (The Pastor as Minor Poet)
January 2011
1 post
sic transit gloria: ordinary. →
jonwasson:
I’m a student pastor director. Before that I was a student intern. Before that I was a student volunteer. Before that I was a member of a student ministry. Before that, I thought I wanted to be a student pastor because they took cool trips.
But. I’ve always felt a healthy bit of ambivalence…
December 2010
2 posts
“The believer is not set at the high noon of life, but at the dawn of a new day...”
– JürgenMOLTMANN, theology of hope (via jonwasson)
“Hope is nothing else than the expectation of those things which faith has...”
– Jurgen Moltmann - Theology of Hope
November 2010
4 posts
“A church is not a center for religious goods and services, where people pay a...”
– robBELL, jesus wants to save christians (via jonwasson)
A good thing for us to hear.
“With denominationalism it has become quite obvious that individuals not only do...”
– Philip J. Lee in “Against the Protestant Gnostics”
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Some Thoughts From a Unthankful Heart
O give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.
I read this Psalm the other day as I sat in the airport getting ready to head back home to spend the Thanksgiving Holiday with my family. This particular Psalm repeats the phrase “his steadfast love endures forever” twenty six times in total. It is any interesting refrain. The author of the book i was...
“Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered....”
– Psalm 32.1-2
October 2010
4 posts
“Oh Lord thou seeist this hardened enemy of Thine, thou seeist how she is...”
– A prayer at the close of a message from Nathanial Beeman who was a preacher in the 2nd Great Awakening (when the altar call and persuasion methods of preaching became the trend). Makes me laugh so hard.
“The blood of Christ is so precious that it is fully sufficient to pay the debt...”
– Jonathan Edwards
August 2010
1 post
“It is in following Jesus that we learn to love him; it is participating in the...”
– Kenda Creasy Dean, Almost Christian (via jonwasson)
Really good!
July 2010
3 posts
agingofanotsosuperhero: What's wrong with the... →
I went on vacation this past week to Camp-of-the-Woods (it’s in the Adirondacks). In my pea-brain mind I assumed that this camp was somehow related to the famous Word of Life Camps (just over the mountains). Any how, I was wrong. Apparently the camp (Camp-of-the-Woods) is run by “The Gospel…
“There must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it...”
– C.S Lewis - Mere Christianity
sic transit gloria: Hey, hey! Look at [or what... →
Once more we are all reminded of and effected by, though certainly not all equally, the ghastly beast of narcissism in our culture. Lebron James, if not before his “Decision”, has at the very least now become the narcissistic poster child. That is, of course, until some other athlete,…
Really good thoughts from a dear friend
June 2010
1 post
“Merely having a sense of the fact that God is infinitely above us, and that...”
– Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits (via austinariail)
Real good
May 2010
7 posts
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“The man who comes to a right belief about God is relived of ten thousand...”
– The Knowledge of the Holy - A.w Tozer
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Miscellanies: 7th graders and idolatry →
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John, in his writes to assure the Christ-followers in the community that their faith is genuine; they have security in their salvation. Why is the community in peril? Why would they ever question their salvation? Idol worshippers have infiltrated the community and have created spiritual…
2 tags
“But the kingdom of heaven does not operate on the basis of commercial...”
– R.T. France, The Gospel of Matthew (via scottmgrace)
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Why should we Pray?
I recently received an email from a friend who has been in a church bible study in the Atlanta area for the last couple weeks. In this particular study they were focusing on the power of prayer. One of the girls in her study, who happened to have a seminary education, made the broad and irresponsible statement (in my opinion) that God will ultimately do what he wills to do regardless of our...
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Mothers Day
Mothers day is a great day for me. My mom happens to be the greatest mother in the history of the universe. Unfortunately, I seemingly fail to properly repay her for being so great year in and year out. Maybe one day when I make millions and millions of dollars inventing something obvious and simple I will be able to repay her….or if this does not work plan b will be to roll out a full scale...
Place Sharing and Bob Hope
I love the summer months for many reasons, but one is the free time I have to read some books that I desire to read rather than the books I have to read because of school. In doing so I have set out finish one of the books I have been working on titled Revisiting Relational Youth Ministry by Andrew Root. In doing so I have grown to love a Bonhoeffer term that Root has used and called...