December 2011
25 posts
Watchsketchpeace:
so excited!!! :) :) :)
Tumblr, small world.
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having relationship issues? →
thouart:
Paul Tripp is the most quotable, unquoted.
this is exactly what i have been reading. wow!Â
the reality of spiritual blindness has important implication for the Christian community. The Hebrews passage
12Â See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.13Â But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
clearly teaches...
Autonomy : " I have the right to do what I want when I want to do it"
Self-sufficiency: " I have everything I need in myself, so I don't need to depend on or submit to anyone"
Self-focus: " I am the center of my world. It is right to live for myself and to do only what brings me happiness"
These are all lies of the Garden, the same lies Satan has whispered in generation after generation of willing ears. They deny our basic makeup as human beings. We are NOT created to be autonomous. We were designed to be daily submissive to God and to live for His glory. Living outside of this design will never work.
“Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for...”
“We need a message big enough to overcome our natural human instinct to live for...”
– Paul Tripp
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life...”
– Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God. (via thouart)
“Rather than loving people and using things to express it, people loved things...”
– Paul Tripp (the fall of man)
Red Letters: Cubicle 5 →
wordsoflifespeak:
Everyday I hear Cubicle 5.
She calls her man to see what he wants for dinner.
She calls him to make sure he doesn’t need lunch.
She calls him to tell him she’ll be five minutes late.
She calls him to tell him not to walk the dog, she’ll do it when she gets home. She’s a bug a boo.
…
“I take it, then, that unbelief in Jesus (NOT believing in Jesus) is a turning...”
– John Piper (via triplee)
Faith.
“The only time “faith” seems negative is when it’s prefaced by the word “blind.” But blind faith is the only kind of faith there is. In order for someone’s faith to be meaningful, it has to be blind. Anyone can believe a hard fact that everyone already accepts. That’s easy. If you can see something, you don’t need faith. Faith in the seeable is...
