June 2012
34 posts
Come Lord like you promised. Just like you said...
Abide in the Vine: America's Sex Symbol →
abideinthevine:
I’m sitting here in a coffee shop fighting to hold back tears as I read the autobiography of Marilyn Monroe. It’s the story of a woman who was not loved as a child, one who was tossed around as an orphan through 9 different homes. One in which she was sexually abused by an older man. I had no idea. This story completely saddens my heart. No wonder she became America’s sex...
Abide in the Vine: America's Sex Symbol →
abideinthevine:
I’m sitting here in a coffee shop fighting to hold back tears as I read the autobiography of Marilyn Monroe. It’s the story of a woman who was not loved as a child, one who was tossed around as an orphan through 9 different homes. One in which she was sexually abused by an older man. I had no idea. This story completely saddens my heart. No wonder she became America’s sex...
“Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise...”
– Romans 15:7 (via grace-isms)
“Worship… is a larger and more encompassing than singing some songs at a church...”
– Matt Chandler (The Explicit Gospel)
“Worship is the attributing of ultimate worth to something. When this ultimate...”
– Matt Chandler (The Explicit Gospel)
Instead of crying out to God & asking Him to set...
youngrestlessandreformed:
“You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself” — A. W. Tozer (via compassionatelyscarred)
tisthecirclekey:
Unless the Lord builds the house,
those who build it labor in vain.
Unless the Lord watches over the city,
the watchman stays awake in vain.
It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for he gives to his beloved sleep. (Psalm 127:1, 2 ESV)
“When you understand the driving force behind everything, all of a sudden there’s...”
– Matt Chandler (The Explicit Gospel)
“God delights in you. Because you’re awesome? No, because He’s awesome.”
– Matt Chandler (via littlethingsaboutgod)
“Unless God changes his stony heart, man is never willing or able to believe the...”
– Jason Stephens (via whollynew)
This is so evident. Every day!
(via learninganapauo)
Do not judge others just because they sin...
“When a person begins to experience true godly sorrow over his sin, a change...”
– Steve Gallagher, At the Altar of Sexual Idolatry (via raisingmywhiteflag)
“Your damnation is your own election, not God’s; you richly deserve it.”
– C.H. Spurgeon (via blakebaggott)
“What’s offensive about [the cross]? Simply this: The cross tells us that we are...”
– Chris Castaldo (via earthstranger)
Unashamed: Jesus Is Not Your Boyfriend →
biblicalmuse:
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” -Col 3:2
If you’re a single girl who wants some “Boyfriend-Jesus” until the boy you’re infatuated with likes you back (so you can then remove the affections for Jesus and place them upon the boy), I…
acupofcoldwater:
If your music playlists aren’t building you up in Christ, flee from them.
“Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Dress for action...”
– Job 38:2-7 (via martelthechristianrapper)
“I don’t want you to stop living in sin because you’re afraid of going to hell. I...”
– Damon Thompson (via freedomreigns)
2 Corinthians 4:16 ()
16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. #Bible http://j.mp/t2Qaqs
Deuteronomy 32:4 ()
4 The Rock, his work is perfect,for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,just and upright is he. #Bible http://j.mp/ufHIuF
Proverbs 13:20 ()
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,but the companion of fools will suffer harm. #Bible http://j.mp/vE3fxZ
El tumblr de Blake: Shaming the Giver with His... →
blakebaggott:
Reading through Hosea 7 today, I came across verse 15, “Although I trained and strengthened their arms, yet they devise evil against me.” It just kind of hit me. This still happens today, both within the Christian community and outside of it.
For example, many Atheists are brilliant people. Far…
