I was reading youtube comments to song, and I came across this one:
"Call it regurgitation if you want[conversation had been about everything the Christians said was just regurgitating things that they had been brainwashed to believe]. But if I were to regurgitate an algebraic expression to you, would that make it an less true and valid? It would still solve for X. And Christ can solve for you as well, if you let him."
Score.
I loled too. The thought of God hunched over a pieces of paper with a pencil, tongue sticking out of the corner of his mouth, concentrating on an algebra problem is amusing. :)
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
God rocks...still
I wish I could adequately describe how amazing God is.
When we forget this, we strive to follow out of our own forces, our own power. But we can't do that! Even if we what we are trying to do is ministry, we can't! We can't even follow without his grace! When we try to follow out of our own power, we are only kidding ourselves. We can't force God's hand! We can't force his hand. And when we just surrender...everything falls into place. Everything falls into place and everything comes to life.
LORD
lover
provider
Immanuel
When we forget this, we strive to follow out of our own forces, our own power. But we can't do that! Even if we what we are trying to do is ministry, we can't! We can't even follow without his grace! When we try to follow out of our own power, we are only kidding ourselves. We can't force God's hand! We can't force his hand. And when we just surrender...everything falls into place. Everything falls into place and everything comes to life.
LORD
lover
provider
Immanuel
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
God rocks
I don't have big, cool, awesome stories, but I do have little, cool, awesome mini-stories.
-All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive. ~Psalm 22:29
How great it is that they who cannot save themselves are the ones who will be saved and will worship!
-The very same power who made the trees to quiver with life lives inside of me!
-I'm not working for perfection. I'm working to be faithful. If I'm faithful in following his call, and if being a scientist is what I'm supposed to do, he won't let me fail.
-Questions are valid. A faith that does not question is weak. Questions are valid--and here's the kicker: they're just as valid unanswered. Questions aren't validated because they get answered. They are valid because we can't know everything. It's trust. We are supposed to seek God, not necessarily answers. And in by seeking him, questions may be answered or changed or deemed unnecessary to know the answer to.
God, give us faith that is beyond what we think we can handle. Because faith we can handle isn't faith at all; it's twisted reasoning. Give us faith that dares to believe.
-All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him—
those who cannot keep themselves alive. ~Psalm 22:29
How great it is that they who cannot save themselves are the ones who will be saved and will worship!
-The very same power who made the trees to quiver with life lives inside of me!
-I'm not working for perfection. I'm working to be faithful. If I'm faithful in following his call, and if being a scientist is what I'm supposed to do, he won't let me fail.
-Questions are valid. A faith that does not question is weak. Questions are valid--and here's the kicker: they're just as valid unanswered. Questions aren't validated because they get answered. They are valid because we can't know everything. It's trust. We are supposed to seek God, not necessarily answers. And in by seeking him, questions may be answered or changed or deemed unnecessary to know the answer to.
God, give us faith that is beyond what we think we can handle. Because faith we can handle isn't faith at all; it's twisted reasoning. Give us faith that dares to believe.
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