June 2011
4 posts
Life.
“I question life.
I was questioning my life.
I questions my life.
Life...”
– One of my biggest pastimes I’ve started to enjoy while living here has been to go on Yelp and see what people write about different establishments. Mainly to see if one of the many restaurants in a neighborhood I’m visiting for the first time has gotten people sick, and what the most...
May 2011
13 posts
“Remember me, O Lord, When you show favor to your people;
help me when you save...”
– Psalm 106:4-5
“Our ideas about what God thinks are dirt roads, but we think they’re super...”
– Bob Goff, on par with Francie
update
Friends,
I am ending my first semester at Hunter College here in NYC. It has been a tough road of transitions to the city life, new college.. etc. I have many opportunities for this summer and am excited about each one of them.
God has this special way of giving me peace at the very last minute. So, I’m expecting this next week and a half to be one of prayer and fasting.
If you would...
“We are inescapably caught in a world of conflicting visions of historical...”
– Article on secularism today
WatchThings that happen here.
Such grace.
1 corinthians
Other Peoples Thoughts Concerning the death of...
proverbs 11:10 When the righteous prosper, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there are shouts of joy.
Ezekiel 18:23 “Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Sovereign Lord. Rather, am I not pleased when they turn from their ways and live?”
May 1st 1945 announcement of Hitler’s Death, May 1st, 2011 announcement of Bin Laden’s death, a date...
April 2011
16 posts
“Do not be overawed when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house...”
– A word to one whom lives amongst prosperous ones; me, living in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth...”
– Acts 17.
“in this age there is an ache and a longing—a homesickness—inside every Christian...”
– John Piper
“With no money and armed only with her faith, [mother teresa] was once again...”
– Faith.
“there were two reasons: one would be because i’m good looking, the other...”
– Zach on getting hired at Abercrombie and Fitch
http://vimeo.com/21402671
Some of you may know that I was really excited to check out different churches while here in New York. I’ve never been in the position of having to be in a new city without a church (when I moved to Santa Barbara for college I had already known about Reality and planned on attending their services).
I’ve loved this city my whole life and one of the many...
“Cheap imitations of biblical love never plumb the depths of the Christian...”
– Kevin DeYoung
Happy 3 Month Anniversary New York
Ok, friends. My 3 month ban on visitors is officially over. I expect to see many of you coming here and falling in love with my city. Pronto.
Urban missional churches need Christian schools →
Bah. Just one of the many things my heart cries out for.
tgcjustice:
Professor and blogger Anthony Bradley makes a compelling case for Christian schools in the inner city.
Spirit-led prayer
“In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with Gods’ will.” Romans 8:26-27
Prayer in Matthew 6:
“Our Father in heaven,
...
March 2011
21 posts
“There is no one holy like the Lord;
there is no one besides you;
there is no...”
– Continuing Hannah’s prayer from 1 Samuel 2
jenkythinks...: God's Glory vs. Our Best Interests →
jenkythinks:
While praying for a missionary being sent off recently, amidst the prayers for God’s glory to reign supreme, I heard someone pray these words…
“and we pray not JUST for your glory, but for their (the missionary’s) good.”
This is no critique, but in this prayer I think there is traces of a…
“My mouth boasts over my enemies,
for I delight in your deliverance.”
– May we continue praying like Hannah in 1 Samuel 2.
It is so difficult to be able to say with a sincere heart that we take delight in interceding for those who don’t believe in Jesus. Most of the time I’m overcome with more frustration than delight.
As you might be able to tell, my...
Matthew 10:26-40.
Verse 26 & 27!
Verse 32
Verse 36
Verse 39
aaaand Verse 40
The Lord is faithful to those who call on Him. He is longing for all to call on Him, His faith is enough for the numerous souls of this earth.
Why don’t you?
“My heart exults in the Lord;
my strength is exalted in the Lord.”
– May we be like Hannah in 1 Samuel 2 and pray.
Miss my family, praying for Reality Adorn tonight.... →
“Your thoughts,
dreaming on a softened brain,
like an over-fed lackey on a...”
– Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, ”A cloud in Trousers”
“God, thank you that with you alone is true, deep, satisfying fellowship and our...”
– Therefore: If we are not experiencing intimacy with the Lord, being filled up with His life, then we have nothing to give others except crumbs from yesterday or fake fruit contrived from past experiences.
BUT if we are experiencing satisfaction and fellowship with God then it will naturally...
“Endow us, O God, with the Holy Ghost, and we have all we need.”
– Spurg
If you watch cinderella backwards, its about a...
An expensive educatory sentence.
En hiver, je ne me rase des jambes jamais.
“Bad theology hurts real people. So of all the questions raised in the book, the...”
– Review of Rob Bell’s Love Wins, by Kevin DeYoung
“Oh that you may all be gentle, quiet, meek in spirit, but full of an ardent,...”
– Spurg
Introductions
This is Mickey. She is from Indonesia, going to school 2 hours away from Manhattan. She comes into the city a couple times a month to go to Redeemer and CCM. She has such a big testimony to the Lord that is being created. So blessed to call her friend.
Update on blogspot because I utterly despise... →
Ps 18: 1-3, 28, 35 (NLT)
malloryanne520:
I love you, Lord; you are my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. I called on the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies… You light a lamp for me. The LORD, my God, lights up my darkness… You have given me your shield...