November 2011
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Getting married Saturday
I think it’s starting to happen…not being able to think.
And me, awakened to love
Not deserving it
But swimming in it
Just as with God
Who will receive me forever.
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“I have no hope at all, then, but in Your pity for me. Granting what You require,...”
– - Augustine, Book Ten, IV 40
(How at home do I feel in these words: highest goal, total emptiness, and the filling of God)
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“You are the happiness that everyone desires, the only happiness.”
– Augustine, “Confessions”. Book Ten, III 33
October 2011
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Vote for the Orphan Justice Center →
Orphan Justice Center makes adoption affordable to good families. They are based here at IHOP-KC. Vote for their ministry and make it possible for them to win up to 50k in grant funds.
September 2011
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Watchwingstofly:
our save the date :)
Beautiful video ;)
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“Run, John, run, the law commands
But gives us neither feet nor hands,
Far...”
– John Bunyan (via wingstofly)
Great find.
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3 Weights that Dampen Your Faith
In Luke 21:34-36 Jesus speaks of three enemy’s of the heart.
“But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to...
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August 2011
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July 2011
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Why Salvation Must Be Free
as it is written:
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”
“Their throat is an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
“Their feet are swift to shed...
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Do the Horrors of the World Cause You to be...
Perhaps I will not forget the night that my insides were twisting at the thought of women going through human trafficking. More than what they were experiencing, I was troubled by the thought that God made a world in which this was even possible.
I felt like I was in a garbage compressor, like my soul was about to be flattened under the weight of this struggle. “If God would allow this, what can...
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The Reason Why Many Don't Keep Their Resolutions...
Remember Peter?
Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.” Jesus said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow this day, until you deny three times that you know me.” - Luke 22:33-34 ESV
Why was Peter’s confession so flimsy in the ears of our Lord? Because He knew that Peter was relying on his own abandonment to followthrough. Later the Lord...
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"Prayer" by Brandon Hammonds (Music by Truman... →
Preaching and music from the house of prayer. Check it out at iTunes.
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Having trouble breaking the power of shame?
While in the prayer room today, the Lord reminded me of something. It’s almost as though He said,
“How has the power of shame been broken in your life? Has it not been by coming to Me and talking to Me about it?”
I ended up tweeting something to that effect:
“I have seen the power of shame broken more by talking to Jesus about it than by commanding it to go in His name. ‘Jesus I feel bad...
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wings to fly: why God loves... →
wingstofly:
Why does the Lord love me? This morning while in the prayer room, I felt the Lord speak a seemingly strange phrase to me. Yet this phrase brought such comfort and joy to my heart. God said,
I don’t love you because you do IHOP(-KC)
A tiny party of me wanted to respond with a quick, “no duh!”…
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Somebody, please read this article. →
A post from Dana Candler: “My Dependence on His Tenacity”
My God, take my heart to rest. I am not fully there. But I am on my way, and much further than the beginning. But let it be finished. Let the crown be placed on my head.
This is a prophetic word for our time. God desires us. He is jealous for us. He loves us while we are broken. He wants to be our healer and the foundation of...
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"Wrecked by Grace" →
This man said for me what I’m always trying to say—with such articulation.
Read more about the author, Tullian Tchividjian.
He quotes a guy. So good:
“Grace is wild. Grace unsettles everything. Grace overflows the banks. Grace messes up your hair. Grace is not tame. In fact, unless we are making the devout nervous, we are not preaching grace as we ought.”
[click title to see...
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Article by Piper on Missions and Joy →
Missions is about joy: both in enjoying God and in enjoying the blessing of sharing that joy with others. We invite men into good news. Let’s cast off any religious bondage and hold to simple devotion to Christ.
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John Piper Interviews Rick Warren. Please Watch.
It’s common to hear the more knowledgable give insight to the less knowledgable. It’s common for a teacher to unfold ideas without any challenge. But it’s not common for two great men, with humility, and depth in the Word, to talk about some of the most controversial ideas inside and outside the Church.
It’s informative to see how these two men with much experience talk...
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When We are not Under the Law We do not Desire Sin
Being under the law arouses evil desires in us.
“For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. But now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.” - Romans 7:5-6 ESV
Why does the law arouse...
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“Dear God,
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!
Who will I be when I have...”
– Henri Nouwen (via brieannaniebuhr)
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Ever Felt Like a Preacher Was Mad at You?
Sometimes one can feel this way. There are three explanations for this: 1. The preacher does not know the heart of God 2. The hearer does not know the heart of God 3. There is a mix of both
Perhaps the third is most common. The preacher is a little mad that people aren’t going harder. The hearers are a little insecure in God’s love and fear that He’s mad most of the time, so it’s best to just...
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Cut off the Flesh Like Foreskin
The flesh is the problem:
“…among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.” - Ephesians 2:3 ESV
“For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.” - Romans...
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Jesus Beheld (Not Just Talked About) Makes Us Feel...
“When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead.” - Revelation 1:17 ESV
The glory of Jesus Christ is everything man likes about everything inside and outside of himself, multiplied by infinity, and free of any impurity or darkness. It says of Christ that all things were made by Him and exist for Him. Everything displays something of His glory, and each individual thing only displays part...
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Instapaper →
My inbox for reading articles and blogs when I have time, at random times.
Shout out to Shawn Blanc for tipping me off to it.
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Corey Russell Channel: Free on YouTube →
I’m sure these will be edifying. I filmed a number of his courses last semester and to say I was encouraged is an understatement.
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wings to fly: Rest →
wingstofly:
I’ve been looking for a house to purchase for the past month. Though it hasn’t been that long, it’s been a journey full of frustrating twists, turns and joys. Last night as Dustin and I walked around a beautiful neighborhood, I shared with him about how I wished the house we’re going to buy was…
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Every Devil is Afraid
Why? Because it is written:
[18] There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. - (1 John 4:18 ESV)
There is no love in Satan’s ranks. Therefore fear has not been cast out. Fear has to do with punishment. All the devils know they will be punished for every thought word and deed of theirs. Let’s...
June 2011
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On Having a Scheduled Life
When setting out to live a scheduled life, we are not drawing out lines with a permanent marker that will now easily keep us on track. Rather, we are sandbagging a channel for a mostly uncontrolled flow of water.
It takes time to get it under control.
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"Kansas Abortion Clinics May Close: How Godly... →
A lot of prayer goes up to end abortion in the Kansas City area. This article reports the fruit of that prayer.
The world is a strange place. It is filled with reactions—quick ones. Anger covers the world, even among the privileged moral class. It is common for an evangelical to say, “I cannot believe that our nation doesn’t see the wrong in abortion.” Yet the Bible of us...
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wings to fly: Be yourself →
wingstofly:
I used to believe that if one truly loves the Lord, there’s only a few occupations to choose from. With that in mind, I’ve held back my many desires especially those pertaining to the arts. Like a knee jerk reaction, whenever artistic desires and inspirations would rise up within me, I’d turn the…
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"We Don't Want to Live at Second Hand" →
Great article on intellectual knowledge versus experiential knowledge.
Prayer is always key. When we pray, we draw near. Drawing near is an act of faith. It can never depart from us in all our learning. May it ever increase in us, abba. Amen.
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The Enemy's Partly Right
It’s not always necessary to disagree with the enemy’s accusation. For example, we probably do have some of the pride he’s nagging us about. What we must always reject is the way the enemy proposes we go about remedying our pride.
Shame and separation are the tools of the devil. He takes advantage of the fact that these two have great force to change our behavior for a moment....
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Say a prayer please...
Sunny is looking for a house. The last one fell through, but it appears a good thing. Today she’s checking out one that could be the one. Thanks :)
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Bound4LIFE Website →
Just subscribed to this feed. Prayer for the ending of abortion and the spirituality of voting.
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Just cause....
wingstofly:
just cause we thought a negative thought, felt some kind of unloving emotions, said something that should have been left unsaid we allow ourselves to be led out of God’s presence by a lie. What we do can never change God. He loves us and desires for us to be with Him where He is. That is why He died on the Cross. So come….let us come to Him.
There is no life in separation. Good...
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The Strength of Our Offense
What is the offense of man against God? He only needs blow on it and it passes away. To us it is an oak. To eternity it is a mist. God’s blows upon the smoke and we see clearly the goodness of His judgments in all things.
Our offense is not hard for God to deal with.
Every tangle of anger deep within our heart, He knows about it. Let’s go to Him and let Him undo the knot. In love...
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“We tend to make prayer the preparation for our service, yet it is never that in...”
– Oswald Chambers (via wingstofly)
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“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken hearted love....”
– Jonathan Edwards, “Religious Affections”
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Sapless Trees Made My Fingers Bleed
Sitting on a mustard yellow couch in store as my girlfriend and her mom, whose birthday’s today, shop.
I am relaxing but I want big thoughts, stretching thoughts. Such thoughts don’t greatly change me in the moment, but they do contribute to a great breakthrough down the road in which I will see Christ’s glory in a way I have not yet—
Endless Fountain endlessly flowing,...