Posts Tagged ‘religion’
I recognize that in the past two years I have changed significantly. My outward responses have become more hesitant and thoughtful. Perhaps I am getting older and know that as a hot-head, I need to think things through before I voice them. I have become less cynical outwardly; carefully evaluating most thoughts my mind wants [...]
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eloquence lost
I have nothing eloquent to say today. I feel that I should be weeping upon my bed as David did for his sick child. While in this mind, the Lord drew me to this verse – so I will let my words be few:
The LORD reigns, he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed [...]
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there is none else
Isaiah 46:9
I have been afforded a morning of retreat. Well, all of us have – it is our morning for contemplation. This passage came to me while I was walking the Salmon Trail here on campus. It is a good place to return to – the beginning and end. In the next verse Isaiah hears [...]
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becoming nothing
Phil. 2: 5-11
We may never know the pain and embarrassment that Jesus endured for us during his ministry on earth – we just receive the blessing.
Think about this in a linguistic sense for a moment. When you enter a language group without any ability to speak the language, you essentially become an infant in what [...]
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richly dwelling word
I can’t let another April pass this journal without a post, and so a glimpse into what I am contemplating today.
At the beginning of the month, I resolved to read one of Paul’s letters (the same one) every day for an entire month. Also, in the study group I attend we did something similar, but [...]
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no, i am not
Do not judge me on your preconceived notions. Do not apply the mistakes of others to me and account me guilty.
I am not of Paul, or Apollos, or Mike, or John or anyone else. I am of Christ. I am His. I have to find my own way, make my own mistakes and learn from [...]
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salvation
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
~Paul, An Epistle to the Romans
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who am i
Who am I? This or the other?
Am I one person today, and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
and before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling?…
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, thou knowest, O God, I am thine.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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on being mature
I am reading a book tonight, and considering a quote from it.
A mature Christian finds his or her fulfillment in living faithfully before God – that is, in being a mature person, not in being around a particular person. Most of our relational dissatisfaction stems in actuality from self-hatred. We don’t like what we’ve done [...]
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christmas praise
Luke 2:8-13
I have never wondered why the angels sang for the shepherds on the night of Christ’s birth. They were singing because God Incarnate had arrived on earth. The events were set in motion, it was finally happening – the Immortal God was going to submit to physical limitation and death to provide redemption to [...]
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Places I Wander
