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I’m convinced that most of you in this room really, really, really, really like Jesus. But if you’re honest with yourself, you don’t really want to BECOME like him.

You admire his humility, we all do. But do you really want to be THAT humble?

You think it’s beautiful, I think we all think it’s beautiful that the Son of God would get down on his knees and wash the feet of his disciples - we think that’s beautiful, but is that really the goal of your life? And is your life headed in that direction of servanthood?

You’re thankful that Jesus was spit on, and abused, and that he took it. But you would never let that happen to you.

You love the fact that he laid down his rights, but you’re going to spend your life fighting for yours and defending yours.

You praise him, you sing songs, and you love him because he loved you enough to suffer during his whole time on earth for your sake. But you’re going to make sure you have fun while you’re down here and that you have a good time.

In short, you think Jesus is a great Savior, but he’s not a great role model.

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Francis Chan (via cornerstonecollegeblog)

(via erinaudreychiu)

sticky note.

manjewkim:

heididanbichang:

Stop cutting the story of the Gospel short.

Yes, you are broken.

But you are also redeemed.

AMEN

(Source: jinieyang, via benshim)

May we never “get over” the grace that has been poured out so mercifully on our lives.

An Interesting and Challenging Question

We go on sinning so that grace may abound. The secular stereotype of the modern evangelical — as a judgmental moralizer — is so wrong as to be laughable. Everywhere you go, preachers reject this model entirely, emphasizing, for example, “divorce recovery,” therapy, and treatment for the consequences of sin. Again, these are worthy things, but Christ and the Apostle Paul also emphasized holiness and discipline. How often has your church actually disciplined adulterers? How often have you intervened in the life of a friend before they made devastating mistakes? Our desire to be liked trumps all, and suffering is the result.

National Review Article

Chaos, confusion, and disaster averted.

Praise the Lord!

A Big Request

Prayer.

Thanks.

"Rejoice and be glad for this is the day that the Lord has made!"

Alice Tsai

"O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life."

Someone

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Now that you know all these great and marvelous things about God and about his work for you in Christ, Now, Go out, and give your life away, give your life away, give your life away!

When you have a little tiny God who’s done a little tiny thing for you, you say, “Giving my life away is just too much to ask.” But when you have a great God who’s done great things for you, it is not too much to ask…

…So many people think that the gospel is for lost people. The gospel IS for lost people. But it is even more for converted people. The more you and I understand about what truly happened on that cross, the more you and I will be driven to serve Christ. Not out of legalism, not out of some fear, or dread, but simply out of joyful appreciation. “Look what he did for me! How can i do anything else?”

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Paul Washer on Romans 12:1 (via chensamuel)

Wings like Eagles: Musings →

rarehunter:

(Please note: I don’t mean for this post to set off an angry slew of comments. If what I have said is incorrect, please guide me. But this is what I feel now, today, as 21-year old me and may very well change in the future. Know that two years ago, I would have probably disagreed with almost every…