To love at all is to be vulnerable.  Love anything, and your heat will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.  If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.  Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all [...]

Rob Bell writes in “Sex God”:
Love is handing your heart to someone and taking the risk that they will hand it back because they don’t want it.  That’s why it’s such a crushing ache on the inside. We gave away a part of ourselves and it wasn’t wanted.
Love is a giving away of power.  When [...]

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I hope that I will know the right things I need. That my selfishness just doesn’t get in the way.

Yes I know! Its been like 2+ months or something like that since I have last updated.  Lots of stuff has been going on!  Lots of good things.  Hoping in the next day or two I can write about this.  Thanks for your patience.
-Chris
Edit: Ok.  Make that like 3 months.

A result of salvation…calls us to face certain consequences.  Are we willing to accept that?
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I’ve Bren reading through Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller….I know finally, right? I’m reading his chapter of belief. These few sentences stood out to me, I wanted to share them.
“Even our beliefs have become trend statments. We don’t even believe things because we believe them anymore. We only believe things because they are cool [...]

The past couple of weeks I’ve been reading a book by Mike Erre called Death by Church.  The book purposes a case for what the church should be, how it relates to the world and furthers the kingdom.  Erre makes a bold and truthful statement of the Christian’s concept of salvation.  I think this rings [...]

Happy New Years to you. I pray that Gods blessing and provision for what you need is made known to you this new year and that you will draw closer to Him.
Tonight after I got home I was talking with a family member about resolutions that we had made for this new year. I shared [...]

In the gospel of Luke, the most familiar account of the Christmas story—the one most commonly read in churches and homes—is firmly rooted in history.  The narrative begins, “In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken” (Luke 2:1).  Luke’s mention of Augustus isn’t incidental or minor.  It sets the [...]

I downloaded a preview chapter of a book by my favorite author, Mike Erre.  The book was just released and I have it ordered already.  It is called Death by Church.  While I am trying to grasp the full context of the book as I read more.  As you might have guessed the book deals [...]

Periods of spiritual decline occur in history because the gravity of indwelling sin keeps pulling believers first into formal religion and then into open apostasy.
- Dynamics of Spiritual Life
Richard F. Lovelace.
Sorry I haven’t written much lately.  Haven’t had much to write about, and been really busy with work and other activities.  Been reading through the [...]

Sorry for not posting much original thought stuff lately.  Trying to adjust to working and life after work and honestly haven’t had much time to do writing or just thinking about stuff.  Life has been going pretty well I would say.  But I ran across this cartoon tonight, and it struck me that I sometimes [...]

Thin Ice

Born in Sin

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If Starbucks looked like most churches.

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This guy’s got talent

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Read this on a blog two nights ago…forget which one it was.  It’s really good.
 
When a person allows their regrets to hold them captive – it seems to me that it is the ultimate display of pride. To not forgive ourselves – when God died to forgive us for our mistakes/sins – aren’t we really [...]

 
Seems like I’ve experienced something like this before.
 
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