December 2011
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Letter to a Young White Person (via @drantbradley)
The following letter is very convicting and has some great points to ponder. It’s a controversial topic, so I’m
personally proud of the person who wrote it to share another rarely discussed side of the damage that can also come alongside short term missions as well as our generation’s desire for overseas adventure instead of serving long term locally where there is need. He also...
Can I say something to young ladies here? I’m trying to pick my words carefully...
– Matt Chandler (via theobernard)
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As we’re on the verge of beginning a new year and as I, like many others, face a...
– Scotty Smith
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Our lifelong nostalgia, our longing to be reunited with something in the...
– The Weight of Glory (1941)
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If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these...
– John MacArthur (via notyourgramma)
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Learning Contentment →
andofcoursebeauty:
Best sermon I’ve heard in a while. Whatever stage of life you are in right now, listen to this.
Ditto. Thanks for the suggestion, Calhoun.
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Let us joyfully remember our dear Redeemer’s glorious birth. Who but He...
– C.H. Spurgeon
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Jesus, by God’s will, relived the history of God’s Old Testament...
– Mark Dever
startling statistics
cierabgardner:
There are 120 million unchurched people in the United States making it the largest mission field in the Western hemisphere and the fifth largest mission field on earth. Non-believers can be divided into two groups of people; nominally churched, which make up 30% of U.S. population and the radically unchurched, which makes up 40% of the U.S. population.
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Remember that you need much teaching, much upholding, much grace, and much...
– C.H. Spurgeon
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We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love...
– C.S. Lewis
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The most violent expression of God’s wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If...
– R.C. Sproul
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If God didn’t control evil, the result would be evil uncontrolled. God...
– Steven Estes in When God Wheeps
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Christmas is about how committed God is to all the promises He has made to us in...
– Ray Ortlund, Jr.
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Grace is unconditional acceptance granted to undeserving people by an...
– Tullian Tchividjian
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I’m not able on my own.
– Needtobreathe
Satan’s cause is never more in danger than when a human being
no longer...
– C.S. Lewis (via notyourgramma)
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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or...
– J.C Ryle
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Oh, how much larger your life would be if you were smaller in it!
– G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy
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You must refuse to be dominated by the seen and the felt.
– Amy Carmichael
If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a...
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne (via cierabgardner)
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Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its...
– J.C. Ryle
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The Felt Love of Jesus
(This was a guest post on my church’s blog (missionathens.tumblr.com); however, many weren’t able to find it. So here it is per request from some folks):
If you’re not a close friend, a roommate, or in my Community Group, you most likely have a) no idea who I am or b) that I deal with severe chronic pain. If you lined me up amongst ten women, you probably wouldn’t pick me to be the...
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The Gift of Self Forgetfulness by Tullian... →
“Spiritual maturity is not marked by our growing, independent fitness. Rather, it’s marked by our growing dependence on Christ’s fitness for us.” -Tullian Tchividgian
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Jesus will put us in impossible situations to remind us that He is not limited...
– Matt Adair
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Contentment is one of the rarest graces.
– J.C. Ryle
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Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing, and realizing of the gospel in...
– John Owen
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A Prayer of Hope for Those on the Verge of Losing... →
Exactly what I needed to hear at this very moment.
“Broken people, complex stories, strained relationships, old hurts bearing current pain… these things are sometimes far more visible to us than anything else. We go through seasons when our troubles neither feel light nor momentary, but ‘too much’ and always.
Father, thank you that we don’t have to pretend otherwise. Thank you...
I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a...
– ~ G.K. Chesterton “Orthodoxy” (via jasontwombly)
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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant...
– Jonathan Edwards (via whiteflagxp)