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"When I was growing up, I was not allowed to go to the local pool halls. As I look back, I’m sure my..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:37:52 -0700

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When I was growing up, I was not allowed to go to the local pool halls. As I look back, I’m sure my parents did not want me to come under the influence of the unsavory characters who frequented those halls. So they built a fence to keep that from happening: “Don’t go into those pool halls.” The problem was I didn’t understand why, so I grew up thinking it was a sin to play pool (don’t laugh, I really did). Imagine my consternation when I moved to a Christian conference center and saw a beautiful antique pool table in the recreation room and godly men playing pool.

That is the way a lot of manmade “dos and don’ts” originate. They begin as a sincere effort to deal with real sin issues. But very often we begin to focus on the fence we’ve built instead of the sin it was designed to guard against. We fight our battles in the wrong places; we deal with externals instead of the heart.

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- Jerry Bridges (via nicoleeel)

klodid: Meow. SO CUTE

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:22:05 -0700

klodid:

Meow.

SO CUTE

"Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:54:00 -0700

“Single life may be only a stage of a life’s journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it with another gift, but the receiver accepts His gifts with thanksgiving. This gift for this day. The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived—not always looked forward to as though the “real” living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.”

- Elisabeth Elliot, Let Me Be A Woman

T__________T eurooopee!!!they’re so cute…….i...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:13:55 -0700

T__________T

eurooopee!!!
they’re so cute…….
i can’t wait to travel [with my husband] !! T_____T

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:11:16 -0700

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:36:25 -0700

"One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:07:26 -0700

“One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today. If we really have too much to do, there are some items on the agenda which God did not put there. Let us submit the list to Him and ask Him to indicate which items we must delete. There is always time to do the will of God. If we are too busy to do that, we are too busy.”

- Elizabeth Elliot (via sincerelydebbie)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:20:20 -0700

thekhooll: We are free By Thundermark

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:20:09 -0700

thekhooll:

We are free

By Thundermark

"I’m not saying that when you mess up, it means you were never really a genuine Christian in the..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:13:10 -0700

““I’m not saying that when you mess up, it means you were never really a genuine Christian in the first place. If that were true, no one could follow Christ. The distinction is perfection (which none will attain on this earth) and a posture of obedience and surrender, where a person perpetually moves toward Christ. To call someone a Christian simply because he does some Christian-y things is giving false comfort to the unsaved. But to declare anyone who sins “unsaved” is to deny the reality and truth of God’s grace.””

- Francis Chan (via jspark3000)

droooooool…………

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 01:05:13 -0700

droooooool…………

"May the space between where I am and where I want to be inspire me."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:43:03 -0700

“May the space between where I am and where I want to be inspire me.”

- Tracee Ellis Ross (via modernhepburn)

despicable-me: Bob the Maid Download LOOOOOL I LOVE...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 01:21:45 -0700

despicable-me:

Bob the Maid

Download

LOOOOOL I LOVE THIS.

i’m gonna start doing that when i vacuum. :3

maddieonthings: Lake Erie, OH

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:45:52 -0700

maddieonthings:

Lake Erie, OH

"Your name is like honey on my lips, Your spirit like water to my soul Your word is a lamp unto my..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:39:19 -0700

“Your name is like honey on my lips,
Your spirit like water to my soul
Your word is a lamp unto my feet,
Jesus I love you.”

- Holy and Anointed One (via presillad)

junebugkim: // Paddlers Coffee - Tokyo, Japan Coffee, doodles,...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:21:13 -0700

junebugkim:

// Paddlers Coffee - Tokyo, Japan

Coffee, doodles, and perfect weather in Yoyogi.

junebugkim: // Terraria - Berkeley, CA

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:22:27 -0700

junebugkim:

// Terraria - Berkeley, CA

"Grace is both our rest and resolve. Grace restores our broken places while also confronting our sin..."

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:26:49 -0700

“Grace is both our rest and resolve. Grace restores our broken places while also confronting our sin head-on. Grace meets us in our pain but also revokes our pride. It’s the great equalizer which recognizes our desperate human need.

This is why Christ must be the center of everything, of all we teach and preach. Not our fancy pop-psychology or behavioral checklists. As Paul says, ‘I resolved to know nothing except Jesus Christ and him crucified … with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.’

It’s only out of gratitude for the grace of Christ that we can really be motivated to follow God at all. The only other option is to beat you down with rules and laws. When you have the security of a never-ending unconditional love, then there’s nothing you wouldn’t do for the one who gave His very life for us. Nothing is off the table for a love like that.

Grace is the unchanging love that changes us; it disturbs our ego and complacency; it is the limitless love that provokes us into the same love. This way takes longer, but its roots grow deeper. It is harder to preach, but its proclamation is what truly transforms.”

- J.S. from this post (via jspark3000)

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Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:07:58 -0700

Luke 10:38-42 — give me dove’s eyes, give me...

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:48:04 -0700

Luke 10:38-42 — give me dove’s eyes, give me undistracted devotion for only You. #Jesus