February 2012
10 posts
Thankful
For an awesome Volunteer Cohort: You guys really made my day today. It’s always fun hanging with all y’all, and your encouragement and prayers keep me going! I couldn’t have chosen a better group of peers to work with.
For the brilliant minds of Media Comm Team: You guys seriously have some amazing talent and thinking skills. I am so blessed to work along side you guys! This...
Expectations
Jesus dying on the cross was not what the disciples expected would happen. In fact, that was the last thing they wanted to see happen to Jesus. But little did they know that his death was the best thing that could happen to them. I tend to treat many important moments in my life the same way. It always fun and games when I’m being blessed: getting a job I really wanted, having great...
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January 2012
14 posts
Reflections
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Matt 6:33
Too often, we drift to seeking “all these things [that] will be given to you as well.” It’s as if after seeking his Kingdom and his righteousness for a while, we expect to see “all the things that should be given to us”. But what we don’t realize, is that the moment...
"The Church isn't a cruise ship on its way to...
Yes.
“Change was never made doing things the way they were always done before. Do...”
New Years Resolution: Book of Proverbs
Starting with: “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.” (Proverbs 3:27 ESV)
If I can just do this one thing well this year, it will be a good year. God knows how hard this actually is.
December 2011
11 posts
A Christmas Morning
No lights, no trees, no presents, no parties, I’m sitting down stairs at the dining table Christmas morning by myself and think that this is quite a different Christmas than the ones I’ve had before. But I’ve never really been the type to fall in love with the Christmas atmosphere… the music, the lights, the “Christmas Spirit,” so to speak, everything that...
“This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can...”
– Relevant magazine (via charliebravo)
Truth
I don't know.
How do I describe this feeling? I’m frustrated because I always get feelings I can’t explain… and when I try to, it never seems to fully capture what I’m trying to really say. It’s something between sorrow and peace. Or perhaps its between bitterness and hope, or between apathy and determination. It’s always between two emotions that don’t make sense. ...
November 2011
11 posts
“If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really...”
– Kristin Wartman, Food Writer for the Huffington Post
Read more this is so hilarious/sad
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Thus is fleeting, the things of this life. Momentary struggles, momentary strife. We clutch blindly onto whatever substance we find in these moments, only to realize it fall apart in our hands like sand. But in the very end it’s neither sadness nor happiness that we feel, but rather a sense of… peace. That dust is only dust, and ashes are only...
“With more than 600,000 hacking attempts on Facebook every day, one might be...”
– From Looks To Buy For by Martin Lindstrom (via fastcompany)
Then the question is, can I fight it?
collections.: Life Principles: It's about love,... →
There is a tendency for people to want to read only about the glory stories that come out of this revival that Jesus is leading, but there are gutsy stories, too. Unless you have the wider perspective of life here, then you will have a lopsided understanding of what God is doing. Often He…
Thank you God
For bringing me peace with the promises You keep.
“Prayer without mission is noise.
Mission without prayer is pride.”
– nick hall on missional prayer
October 2011
13 posts
I wish I could do three things at once.
It seems that I never have enough time to do what I need or want to do. As soon as I get focused on one thing, I realize there’s something else I need to focus on. It’s always around this time of the year I feel like I’m pulled in a million different directions. I should start making the hard decisions.
The question is, what should the answers be?
Hearing God Again
After quiet time today on top of Geisel, I was praying, and afterwards I became frustrated. Frustrated that His voice wasn’t as clear as day for me most times. That I don’t hear him give me an epic image, and that he doesn’t give me speak to me like I was talking to a person physically in front of me. Amidst my anguish, I cried out with my soul that He would just reveal...