February 2012
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“And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not...”
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“Finally, Cassy belted out that famous line: “Dad, how could you do this to...”
I don’t just want to spend time with you when I get a chance to breathe.
I want you to be my breath.
I don’t want you just when I feel goosebumps, I want you to be my heart.
I don’t want you just to take the scales off of my eyes.
I want you to be my vision, oh Lord of my heart.
Thoughts: Christian? →
matthewbrake:
Dear Whoever,
Sometimes I wonder if I’m still a Christian.
I know I love Jesus. I believe I’ve encountered God. I still like some evangelical and/or charismatic services. I love theology and philosophy.
But I also know if I made some of my theological thoughts and doubts known that I would feel…
This is the struggle I feel I have a majority of the time…
“I’m skeptical of the cinematic types—they are devoted to their relationship only...”
– (via igiveup)
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To All of My Guy Friends Desperately Trying to...
I’ve seen many of my close guy friends and even many guy acquaintances on Tumblr posting pictures of girls. Girls covered in tattoos. Naked girls. Girls with oversized grandpa sweaters and non-prescription wayfarers. Girls in a t-shirt and underwear. Okay, so you appreciate a good-lookin’ gal. I can’t argue too much with that logic. But I think it may have gone a little far for a...
January 2012
23 posts
“You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out...”
– Anne Lamott (via emileeruth)
Rick Santorum: Left uses college for... →
girlwithalessonplan:
somepolitics:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Wednesday that “the left” uses universities to indoctrinate young people for the purpose of “holding and maintaining power.”
After saying “we’ve lost, unfortunately, our entertainment industry,” Santorum told a Naples, Florida, audience that “we’ve lost our higher education, that was the first to go a...
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Thoughts: Revelation →
matthewbrake:
No. Not the book.
I’m talking about the means by which God reveals Himself.
Growing up in church and attending Christian schools, I was always taught in my Bible classes that there were two ways that God revealed Himself: 1) General Revelation, 2) Special Revelation.
Most of the discussion was…
You should read this.
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Uh....Red Tails?
Leave it up to George Lucas to take what could be a pretty good story with great subject matter and turn it to shit.
Although, I must admit… Phantom Menace came out when I was still in elementary school…I like that one.
I would absolutely LOVE a movie about the Tuskegee black air fighters. I would eat it up. But I just can’t take another Lucas film with elementary dialogue,...
My Dang Education Blog....Check it! →
the love i hate
I realized today that I’m not very good at loving my enemies. I realized this when I found myself working with someone who I really can’t stand very much. Not only did this person wrong me personally, but this person is pretty much everything that I find myself hating about people. Selfish, dishonest, petty, a typical ‘gossip-girl,’ power-hungry, the list could go on I...
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thatkindofwoman)
“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me...”
– Isaiah 61
sounds of '11
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David Bazan ~ Strange Negotiations
Russian Circles ~ Empros
Mogwai ~ Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
Colin Vallon ~ Rruga
St. Vincent ~ Strange Mercy
Helms Alee ~ Weatherhead
Young Widows ~ In and Out of Youth and Lightness
TV on the Radio ~ Nine Types of Light
Bonnie Prince Billy (Will Oldham) ~ Wolfroy Goes to Town
True Widow ~ As High as the...
December 2011
11 posts
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Open your belly to the sun as it gleams in through paned glass
Bear your chest to the world, you beautiful dancing man
Shield your teeth no more, sheath yourself no more
Beat your breast sternly, African son, and know that she may hate you for it
She may bleed you dry like the leech of murky waters
But let the warmth of sun greet your naked flesh as a friend
Let him expose your skin, no...
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“…to be in a relationship with God is to be loved purely and furiously. And...”
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“I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the...”
“All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It’s...”
– Donald Miller: To Own a Dragon/Father Fiction
…in all and through all. Rejoice! God is near…
in every blade of grass, in every blue sky
in ever sullen dark cloud, in every spring rain
in every winter storm, in every breeze, in every whirling wind
in every towering oak, in each dead...
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via bookmania)
Me: Papa, I just got hit with crazy anxiety. and I know that I shouldn’t be anxious for anything, and that I should just make my requests known to you. But I’m still so damn anxious! My nerves are jumpy, my heartbeat is racing, I can’t focus at all!
God: I suppose that quad shot of espresso wasn’t the best idea in the world…
KY Church Bans Membership of Interracial Couple →
Yes, this is for real. Not a joke, not a game. There, unfortunately, is no shortage of backwards thinkers.
November 2011
10 posts
Donald Miller: "Why Paul is My Favorite Apostle"... →
I’ve been struggling with Paul lately. Actually, let me take that back (when ‘writing’ on the computer, I’ve pondered how easily you can retract a thought you believe to be a mistake in your writing. When writing with pen and parchment, you can never fully erase what’s been written. You can white it out or scratch it out, but it never goes away. There’s a...
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