February 2012
74 posts
Catechisms with Flesh On →
I want kids to realize that they live in a fantasy world: They should not finish a novel and think, “Now back to my un-magical, boring existence.” This world is crazy. The grass outside is made out of thin air by sunlight. Heat from a ball of fire in the sky turns into carbon dioxide, air grabs some heat from the sun and rips the carbon out and makes itself a leaf. It’s not...
Mind Blowing What Is This I Don't Even →
Otherwise known as the rotary catalytic mechanism of mitochondrial ATP synthase.
EDIT: I literally cannot stop watching this. I want to scream. GOD WWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
EDIT 2: WHO THINKS OF THIS
EDIT 3: Ok I’m calming down.
EDIT 4: Who in their right mind could even fathom this happening from an non-designing...
Last Saturday (Paul Suzuki)
Simultaneous to the futsol outreach but in another building, the Tarters and Suzukis were assisting a Japanese volunteer organization in salvaging photographs found in the disaster area. Photos marred by sand, water, sun and bacteria needed to be carefully rescued out of photo albums, dry cleaned, catalogued, digitally photographed, then delicately washed with water to retard the rate of...
Rick Warren Builds Bridge to Muslims →
The Rev. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, and one of America’s most influential Christian leaders, has embarked on an effort to heal divisions between evangelical Christians and Muslims by partnering with Southern California mosques and proposing a set of theological principles that includes acknowledging that Christians and Muslims worship the same God.
LOL WUT
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one thing
skyebox:
spiritual warfare is becoming really visible
my word, seriously… what the heck is going on.
Lent or No Lent, Life Is War →
Lent or no Lent, not doing some things you feel like doing is the daily pattern for the disciples of Jesus. Yes, daily. “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23).
In the resurrection there will be no self-denial because none of our desires will be sinful or foolish. Till then we have sinful and foolish desires daily. Hence, “Let...
“One cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.”
– G.K. Chesterton (via bgospelm)
“The church of America was once salt and light. Now, rather than having any real...”
– Clyde Cranford in “Because We Love Him”
Bob Kauflin on Ineffective Music →
Bob Kauflin is one of the musicians who I will almost unfailingly seek to emulate. Here he briefly discusses something we all already know but rarely practice—that our melodies are of importance.
Blessed
I saw Kwadwo 3 different times today. Kwadwo was the one who alerted me to the practice of answering people with words of grace—every time I ask, “How are you?”, he responds, “Blessed.” This isn’t fake—he means, blessed. And even if he didn’t mean it, we know in our hearts that we are truly blessed. So it makes sense. And it’s God-directing.
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How much of your life do you want God to Change?
joanna-banana:
For some reason, this question caught me off guard today. Sure, I want God to change me, but do I really desire for Him to change all of me?
This isn’t asking how much of your life are you going to surrender to God (although, it can infer this question) but rather, how much of your life are you willing to let God change- because He is capable of changing it- it’s all up to...
“We’re more loved than we deserve. Even our worst days are a gift.”
– Lecrae (@lecrae) February 21, 2012
“For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is...”
– James
“As long as you look to yourself there is no hope for you. It is not a...”
– C.H. Spurgeon
Jeremy Lin’s bold humility →
Last one, I promise. This one talks a little bit about the Harvard version of ACF.
Jeremy Lin: From Zero to Hero
junehokim:
(Photo by Chris Chambers/Getty Images)
What a whirlwind month it has been for the “hero from Harvard.” What a week it has been for “Linsanity.” Jeremy Lin has transformed his career, seemingly overnight, and it has been an honor and delight to watch this man and his successes. Despite his meteoric rise, however, he has long been laying the foundations for this breakout and, this past...
Faith, sin and Jeremy Lin →
Stephen Chen is head pastor of the English-language ministry at Redeemer Bible Fellowship in Mountain View, Calif. Among the longtime members of his 300-person, largely Chinese American immigrant church is basketball’s latter-day wunderkind, the Knicks’ Jeremy Lin.
Chen has known Lin since the basketball phenom was 13, when Chen worked with him as a youth counselor at their church. Chen never...
Men Of Whom The World Was Not Worthy
There are certain incredibly powerful, memorable lines in Scripture that resonate in me.
And what more shall I say? For time will fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets, who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, from...
Watch
Here’s the lesson: let’s not just tell our children what they ought to feel. Let’s model the feeling before them. Let’s be expressive in the way that we feel about God, and—you can count on it—one of the most wonderful, natural reflexes in your children will be to feel what you feel.
Age of Accountability
20 years old? And notice that they are not only accountable for their own actions, but they bear the responsibility for the wanderings of their children:
“As I live,” says the LORD, “just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will surely do to you; your corpses will fall in this wilderness, even all your numbered men, according to your complete number from twenty years old...
My Take: Looking for faith amid persecution →
As the relief team took assessments for supplies, our interpreter, also a Christian, turned to me and said, “We see the destruction of their homes, but not the destruction of their lives. Jesus will never leave us or forsake us.”
I cried. Christians don’t welcome crises and persecution, but in Jesus, we surely are the only ones on this earth who can stand up against all evil.
Psalm 40: Obedience Better Than David's →
Verses 1–10 are David’s song of thanks to God for rescuing him from dire straights. Verses 6–8 then raise the issue of what should David do in response to God’s life-saving rescue. Slaughter another sheep? Sacrifice a bull or goat? Is that really an apt response to God pulling him up from the very pit of destruction (verse 2)? Thanks for saving my life, God. Here’s a goat. It doesn’t work.
RU Praise Night →
brianli:
aboutkee:
RUNITED PRAISE NIGHT :D
we’re bring all the rutgers campus ministries together on february 24th! spread the worD!!!
Reach will be performing! Please come out :]
Honestly, ALL The Time I Have No Idea What I’m... →
jspark3000:
I always thought my parents and these grown-ups had a super-secret system for organizing their life and making Huge Forever-Changing Decisions. Writing checks and doing taxes and paying the rent was like second nature to them. Me in my little kid boots, a sore neck from looking up all the time: it was daunting to think of being a grown-up.
It turns out, they were guessing...
[The LAS] - Book Review - "Counted Righteous in... →
Piper takes great care to emphasise the fundamental importance that we, as Christians, realise that we ARE counted righteous in Christ. Not only did Christ become sin for us that we might be forgiven, but He died and rose so that we might become the righteousness of Christ (2 Cor 5:21). This is fundamental because it shifts out mindset as Christians from the negative- “I am a sinner who has been...
All Spheres of Life — Even Pro Basketball →
Uh Oh
Final Design Project Partner: Today I had the thought: Maybe I'm a sociopath.
Final Design Project Partner: What's a sociopath.
Exclusive: Jeremy Lin Says Faith in God Triggered... →
Subplot—he wouldn’t come out and say why…but he’s been turning down interviews, and then this article comes out and it’s an interview devoted to God.
My guess? Instead of watering down the message by accepting every interview request, he wanted to say it his way, instead of being scripted as a public spectacle. That is a heads-up move! (Also, it says that he’s more committed to...
Tricking
Me: It's sunny and 25 degrees.
Talha: I hate that. It's like, tricking me. It wants me to think it's nice out. But it's cold.
theubergoober:
Forgive me Father
Forgive me...
College vs. Reality →
I don’t know if I’d say there’s nothing real in college, but good stuff.
Scale of Everything →
rarehunter:
Tell me how there could not be a Designer!?
Got some good modular engineering principles going on.
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life...”
– Francis Chan
“Something that I needed to learn was that just because you pray, and just...”
– Jeremy Lin
Jeremy Lin is blowing up in my social world, and it’s funny because Tebow kind of… didn’t. Tebow is an American’s Christian, perhaps. (I’m not using American detrimentally here.) Asian-Americans are looking for someone to look up to. I hope he becomes a little bit more outspoken about his faith, but really, really good stuff in the early going.
you complete me...
jesshong:
As Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) longingly and apologetically stares at Dorothy Boyd (Renee Zellweger), he says, “I love you,” (dramatic pause) and ends by saying, “You complete me.”
Hearts melt and a deep “aww” resounds in the hearts of every female watching this. For those that do not understand this reference, you’re too young to be thinking about marriage.
I mean seriously, what...
Japan Mission 2005-2011 →
There’s a video in this post that gives me hope, but also spurs me on. In the video, there are many testimonies of young Christians who have accepted Jesus over the past few years as a result of (I think?) Cru [formerly Campus Crusade for Christ] Singapore.
The reason it spurs me is because all the interviewed Christians are girls. The ratio, judging strictly from this video, is something...
Irony
So much of my effort in leading or organizing songs for gatherings is focused on how I can help people know that they are singing together, as one body, when so many of our songs talk about “me” and what “I” feel and do. Ironically, in Japan this will be the least of my worries, and my concern will be to encourage people to sing as individuals, making melody in each...
