May 16, 2012

How my family reacts to the playoffs lmbo 

April 24, 2012 • 2 notes

The Garden of Bitterness

“The heart knoweth his own bitterness.”  Proverbs 14:10


“The roots of a weed can choke out the most beautiful garden… the Bible warns Christians of another root that can destroy in a far greater way — the root of bitterness. In Hebrews 12:15b, the writer says, “Lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled.” As believers, we must forgive those who hurt or offend us. When we refuse to forgive, bitterness grows, intertwines itself around our Christian witness, and chokes out our joy in Christ. Our lives become sour, and we see the world through critical eyes and speak with skeptical and sarcastic remarks. Not only is the Holy Spirit grieved, but also those we touch are affected by the ugliness of bitterness.”

April 17, 2012

Womanhood

“A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.” - John Piper

April 17, 2012 • 1 note

Idol Factory

It is so easy for us to chase after the gifts of God rather than God himself. It’s so easy for us to chase after finding glory for ourselves in the opportunities He’s placed us in to bring glory to Him. My direction should be the Cross. Not my dream school, not my dream career and not even my dream ministerial opportunity. When I feel more envy for someone’s experience rather than passion and desire for God, I know I have a serious idol in my hands. 

February 12, 2012

Valentine’s Day and Jesus

Listen ladies. Something God’s been teaching me in the past 24 hours is this: We can sit around and condemn our brothers in Christ for watching hardcore or softcore pornography all day. But what about the log in our own eyes? You know what I’m talking about. You know that romance novel on your bookshelf? The chick flick you fawned over with your girlfriends or in solitude over a pint of ice creamthe other night? Or that time you layed in bed and fantacised your own personal Notebook love story?

It’s all emotional pornography. There’s no ifs, ands, or buts. It doesn’t have to be sexually driven to be destructive for our hearts or in our pursuit for Christ.

This Valentine’s Day, as the world throws all of its definitions of love your way, I hope and pray that you turn your eyes upon His truth. Don’t feed your desires and longings for a boyfriend with a romance novel. Your purity is too sacred for that, dear sisters. Aim for Christ. In all you do, aim for Christ. Take a good look at your heart. What turns you away from your pursuit? Is it romance? Do you desire a boyfriend more than God sometimes? I know I sure do. And I think it’s about time I start taking some serious steps to getting all these grimy little stumbling blocks out of my life. The movies, the books, the songs and all.

If it doesn’t awaken your heart to the power of the Gospel in some way, or if it slows your down, causes you to stumble or maybe even stops your sprint towards the Cross entirely, then you can bet that it is not at all edifying to your relationship with Him.

Be careful, brothers and sisters. Keep fighting the good fight. Deny your flesh, deny your emotions. Look upon Christ and live the Gospel centered life we are all called to live. He is better. I promise you this: He is much better. He is the meat. The four course meal. And that silly little Nicholas Sparks movie? It is but a piece of candy to your dying, starved flesh.

(Via http://arebelsguidetojoy.tumblr.com/) Go follow my dear sister Shelby and be encouraged! Soli Deo Gloria!

January 14, 2012

“We must actively train ourselves to love God more than the people and things of this world. Remarkably, when we are able to do this the other things in our lives will be enjoyed and loved all the more. However, if we love these at the expense of our love of God, we will eventually not love them at all.”
-C.S Lewis

December 13, 2011 • 2 notes

To My Sisters

Sisters, your beauty is not found in external (and fleeting) youth and “attractiveness” but in the “hidden person of the heart” which “in God’s sight is very precious” and it will be beautiful in the sight of a man who is propelled by the Spirit of this God. you owe no submission to Hollywood or to Madison Avenue, or to those who listen to them. Your worth and dignity cannot be defined by them. Stop comparing yourselves to supermodels and porn stars. Stop loathing your body, or your age. Stop feeling inferior to vaporous glamor. You are beautiful.

“Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.” (1 Peter 3:3-4)

August 14, 2011
A great sickness has developed in contemporary evangelical Christianity that is built around self. The emphasis on self image, self esteem, and self worth is nothing more than humanistic worldliness. Selfism has twisted evangelicalism from a God-centered to a man-centered perspective. Salvation is now seen from the viewpoint of what can it do for us? That is a horrifying error.
– John MacArthur
August 14, 2011
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February 5, 2011

Are You a True Disciple?

1 Peter 4:3-6 (scripture of the day) You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols. Of course, your former friends are surprised when you no longer plunge into the flood of wild and destructive things they do. So they slander you. But remember that they will have to face God, who will judge everyone, both the living and the dead. That is why the Good News was preached to those who are now dead—so although they were destined to die like all people, they now live forever with God in the Spirit.

I’m sitting here listening to music & just had bible study and God put this subject on my heart to write because I was once in this position and I was living a lie with myself and God. I was living the life of a Christian Atheist-

Someone who believes in God but lives as if he doesn’t exist. I hope you take this message to heart and turn to the cross..

It is simply too easy to say to you, that you shouldn’t have sex, do drugs, etc. , This is what separates a Sunday Christian from a true disciple of Christ.

You must truly appreciate the Love of God. How many times have you actually thought about what Jesus endured during his beating and crucifixion? It’s mind-boggling as I sit here and think about it..

So, how can you truly live for God.

First you must forget your own desires, motives, and ambition and submit to God’s plan. You can’t do what you want to do, to get what you think you should have. You must submit and cling to God, the only one who can always get what you need, be it money, tuition, a car, a house, a wife or husband, a child. God’s plan is not for you to sell drugs to get a house, car, or better life. That’s your interference in God’s plan, he will supply all your needs.

Then you must pick up the desires of God, he wants you to seek him, and to serve him with all your heart, mind and soul.

To serve God and live a Christ-like Life, is to trust completely and utterly to God.

So, put away anything that may turn your sight/focus away from God. ie music, people, relationships, etc.

Luke 9:23-24 “Then he said to the crowd, “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross daily, and follow me.If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.”

Will you turn from your selfish ways and take up the cross?