Just Someone ORDINARY

but with an EXTRAORDINARY GOD.

May 31, 2012 1:01 am
solideogloriaa: christina-choe: Funniest biblical quote EVER!! - Imgur I can’t believe they threw this up on the screen. bahahaha!

solideogloriaa:

christina-choe:

Funniest biblical quote EVER!! - Imgur

I can’t believe they threw this up on the screen. bahahaha!

12:47 am
"Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action. Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday? Or to go on your last vacation? Or exercise this morning? Probably not, but you still did it. The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God."

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Francis Chan. Crazy Love. Loc 3694-3700 (via simpleandy)

(via ivebeenfoundworthy)

12:46 am
"You were running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the Truth?"

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Galatians 5:7 (via becausehelovedmefirst)

(via ivebeenfoundworthy)

12:46 am
"The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it is because we have an inaccurate view of God. We see Him as a benevolent Being who is satisfied when people manage to fit Him into their lives in some small way. We forget that God never had an identity crisis. He knows that He’s great and deserves to be the center of our lives."

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Francis Chan, Crazy Love (via radquotes)

(via ivebeenfoundworthy)

May 29, 2012 11:47 pm
Summer Road Trips: Dramatized Audiobooks for the Family
11:47 pm

How much more can our Father in heaven give?

10:02 pm
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less."

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C.S. Lewis (via shutupbrittany)

(via ivebeenfoundworthy)

10:01 pm
"A while back a former gang member came to our church. He was heavily tattooed and rough around the edges, but he was curious to see what church was like. He had a relationship with Jesus and seemed to get fairly involved with the church. After a few months, I found out the guy was no longer coming to the church. When asked why he didn’t come anymore, he gave the following explanation: “I had the wrong idea of what church was going to be like. When I joined the church, I thought it was going to be like joining a gang. You see, in the gangs we weren’t just nice to each other once a week—we were family.” That killed me because I knew that what he expected is what the church is intended to be. It saddened me to think that a gang could paint a better picture of commitment, loyalty, and family than the local church body. The church is intended to be a beautiful place of community. A place where wealth is shared and when one suffers, everyone suffers. A place where when one rejoices, everyone rejoices. A place where everyone experiences real love and acceptance in the midst of great honesty about our brokenness. Yet most of the time this is not even close to how we would describe our churches."

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Francis Chan (via nonelikejesus)

(Source: sinfreed, via ivebeenfoundworthy)

9:59 pm
"If Christ is not all to you He is nothing to you. He will never go into partnership as a part Saviour of men. If He be something He must be everything, and if He be not everything He is nothing to you."

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Charles Spurgeon (via beccaradtke)

(via ivebeenfoundworthy)

9:58 pm
"

Here’s what happens with this doctrine, that shouldn’t.

All of a sudden, the guys that believe this, think they’re part of this tiny little club. Like God’s overarching will is just to save a couple of people & they’re that couple of people & the rest of us are all…….

But the message of Reformed Theology is that God saves! That God wants to save! Not that He wants to damn but that He wants to save. It’s backwards. They get it backwards. & so then you get arrogant, usually 20-somethings, who walk with a swagger and beat the crap out of everybody theologically. I just can’t stand them.

Or they’ve just got these incisive, constant, blogs where they just want to breakdown everybody’s everything & show everyone’s error. & so I’m not a big fan of the Reformed community. I’m just not. But I can’t get away from the fact that these are biblical (doctrines) and I believe this should produce a monumental amount of humility & patience with everyone.

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Matt Chandler, on Election (Reformed Theology)

(Source: solideogloriaa, via ivebeenfoundworthy)

12:44 pm
"The Gospel is—we are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared to believe, and at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope."

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Timothy Keller with Kathy Keller (via anotherprodigal)
12:38 pm

Prayer and Predestination: A Conversation Between Prayerful and Prayerless

  • Prayerless: I understand that you believe in the providence of God. Is that right?
  • Prayerful: Yes.
  • Prayerless: Does that mean you believe, like the Heidelberg Catechism says, that nothing comes about by chance but only by God's design and plan?
  • Prayerful: Yes, I believe that's what the Bible teaches.
  • Prayerless: Then why do you pray?
  • Prayerful: I don't see the problem. Why shouldn't we pray?
  • Prayerless: Well, if God ordains and controls everything, then what he plans from of old will come to pass, right?
  • Prayerful: Yes.
  • Prayerless: So it's going to come to pass whether you pray or not, right.
  • Prayerful: That depends on whether God ordained for it to come to pass in answer to prayer. If God predestined that something happen in answer to prayer, it won't happen without prayer.
  • Prayerless: Wait a minute, this is confusing. Are you saying that every answer to prayer is predestined or not?
  • Prayerful: Yes, it is. It's predestined as an answer to prayer.
  • Prayerless: So if the prayer doesn't happen, the answer doesn't happen?
  • Prayerful: That's right.
  • Prayerless: So the event is contingent on our praying for it to happen?
  • Prayerful: Yes. I take it that by contingent you mean prayer is a real reason that the event happens, and without the prayer the event would not happen.
  • Prayerless: Yes that's what I mean. But how can an event be contingent on my prayer and still be eternally fixed and predestined by God?
  • Prayerful: Because your prayer is as fixed as the predestined answer.
  • Prayerless: Explain.
  • Prayerful: It's not complicated. God providentially ordains all events. God never ordains an event without a cause. The cause is also an event. Therefore, the cause is also foreordained. So you cannot say that the event will happen if the cause doesn't because God has ordained otherwise. The event will happen if the cause happens.
  • Prayerless: So what you are saying is that answers to prayer are always ordained as effects of prayer which is one of the causes, and that God predestined the answer only as an effect of the cause.
  • Prayerful: That's right. And since both the cause and the effect are ordained together you can't say that the effect will happen even if the cause doesn't because God doesn't ordain effects without causes.
  • Prayerless: Can you give some illustrations?
  • Prayerful: Sure. If God predestines that I die of a bullet wound, then I will not die if no bullet is fired. If God predestines that I be healed by surgery, then if there is no surgery, I will not be healed. If God predestines heat to fill my home by fire in the furnace, then if there is no fire, there will be no heat. Would you say, "Since God predestines that the sun be bright, it will be bright whether there is fire in the sun or not"?
  • Prayerless: No.
  • Prayerful: I agree. Why not?
  • Prayerless: Because the brightness of the sun comes from the fire.
  • Prayerful: Right. That's the way I think about the answers to prayer. They are the brightness, and prayer is the fire. God has established the universe so that in larger measure it runs by prayer, the same way he has established brightness so that in larger measure it happens by fire. Doesn't that make sense?
  • Prayerless: I think it does.
  • Prayerful: Then let's stop thinking up problems and go with what the Scriptures say. Ask and you will receive. You have not because you ask not.
12:36 pm
blakebaggott: My answer about masturbation. Made rebloggable by request!

blakebaggott:

My answer about masturbation. Made rebloggable by request!

12:43 am
"God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than He is of any other slacker."

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C.S. Lewis (via bryandrums)

(via desertmanian)

May 28, 2012 11:50 pm

questions are random ^^

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