if we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. galations 5:25
it lets you view the world in proportion to different statistics.
take HIV prevalence in the world:
it’s quite daunting. thank God that He see’s the world more than just statistics, and that He’s not done transforming lives. let’s not let all the blessings He’s given us be given in vain. “…from everyone who has been given much, much will be required…” luke 12:48
nature in action
hebrews 12:1-2:
therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us,and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
1 corinthians 9: 24-27
do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? run in such a way that you may win. everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. they then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified
that the abortion industry kills as many black people every four days as the KKK did in 150 years…
http://www.heartbeatinternational.org/lifelines/2009/Oct.htm
Reblogged from mulchstetson
here I stand
laden with your gifts
for you have given me
every good and needful thing
that I might live for you.
here I stand
the world beneath my feet
poised between two choices:
a life of privilege or of service?
a life of pleasure or of love?
here I stand
high upon a mountain-top
while a slick tongue whispers
“you have worked hard,
you deserve it,
a little bit more won’t hurt,
live it up,
why not?
Jump, and you’ll not be hurt
Eat, and you’ll not grow fat
Take, and you’ll not be tainted,
for all these lovely things
I give you now,
if you’ll worship me.”
Here I stand
poised between two choices
to consume your gifts like cotton-candy
with which to line my empty soul
or,
cherish life like precious manna,
bread which must be shared
among my fellow beggars
lest it turns to dust.
by: Kristin Jack, a man who has lived in the slums of Cambodia for the past 14 years with his wife and two children serving the urban poor with the love of Christ.
There is a strong movement promoting the infiltration of Christians into every sphere of life, with the intention of making Earth mirror Heaven. The belief (in a nutshell) holds that Jesus’ second coming will occur when His followers make Earth like Heaven.
Phoenix Preacher gave a fine, brief and balanced blog on the issue here.
I especially appreciate his emphasis on suffering.
Reblogged from chrislazo
Top heavy
Who will stand up for Me against evildoers?
Who will take his stand for Me against those who do wickedness?
psalm 94:16
God is love in his essential being, and has revealed his love in the gift of his Son to live and die for us. Now he calls us to be a community of love, loving each other in the intimacy of his family-especially across the barriers of age and sex, race and rank-and loving the world in its alienation, hunger, poverty and pain. It is through the quality of our loving that God makes himself visible today.
— John Stott, Living Church
