January 2011
8 posts
all have fallen short (the desperation prayer).
this is a prayer I’ve prayed many, many, many times. I will come back to it and continue to add/reword as I am convicted again and again, finding myself in the position I’m in now.
Father God,
This is my petition; it is the same petition that led to my salvation and is the same petition I will make again and again until the day of my glorification.
I am unfaithful. I desire the...
to the churched who don't feel quite so Christian...
not that I am wise or blameless—I simply hope this post points you to Christ, who is both and so much more.
I know what it feels like to wait for a miracle. We expect God to make the first move. We wait for revelation, for revitalization. We live with this weird, nagging acknowledgment of His presence in the back of the mind—every second of every minute of every hour of every...
2 pride as a judgmental attitude.
soooo belated. sorry. :( this is part 2 of my pride series. I’ve also taken to writing these down on the back of my hand as a daily reminder, but keep me accountable!
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. Romans 12:3...
“… Islam too gives people self-respect, cleans up neighborhoods, gives a sense of...”
– Carl R. Trueman (via samlin)
“… We need to reassert the centrality of the sermon as a part of worship,...”
– Carl R. Trueman (via samlin)
1 pride as self-centered and inconsiderate.
in this series, I’ll be identifying symptoms of my worst, most deeply-rooted, longest-standing sin: pride. it hardens the heart against conviction of other sin, creates a false sense of self-dependence, shrinks the cross, disables proper worship, and ruins relationships (just to name a few). it is indicative of an incomplete view of grace (James 4:6).
thus I continue to pray against it and...
1 the cross and pride.
this is the first weekly blog in my winter quarter series on the cross (see previous post “it all comes down to the cross” for details). forgive me for the minimal amount of verses/passages—the focus here is refocusing my life (specifically, my battle against sins) to fit in context of the Gospel, and so I’m assuming your biblical understanding of both the sins I address...
it all comes down to the cross.
referenced in CJ Mahaney’s Cross-Centered Worship sermon (which Sam Lin introduced me to):
And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 (NIV)
I am incredibly...