September 2011
11 posts
Daniel: Heart
In my previous post I mentioned my Pharisaical mindset for a moment. I’m gonna expand on that and what God has been teaching me about it
I tend to get very concerned about the law. About what is right and wrong, and what I can do and cannot do. How I should be above reproach in everything.
I’m starting to learn what it means to really be above reproach. What it means to love the way that...
Daniel: Purpose
I was really lonely for the first few days of welcome week. My suitemates are really friendly and chill, and I hung out and kept myself busy pretty much all day, but there was nothing of substance in what I did. No people that I could really talk to, no schoolwork or purpose to really follow. I felt so empty.
All of my suitemates, and most of my friends went out to party most nights, but my...
Joe: Retreat
I went to a retreat over the weekend with Intervarsity. Ever since I read 1 John last last friday, God has really been laying it on my heart to love others. 1 John 3:16 says:
16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.
Love = Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ went to hell and back for us. He was willing...
Joe: Sweet Aromas
I felt paralyzed today. I felt like I had a calloused heart. I felt like I was becoming desensitized to the sin in my life, and I just didn’t care anymore.
Today’s IV message was about purpose. Jesus came here to reverse the power of death.
I feel more or less liberatedish.
It’s relieving.
Here’s a thought for someone who reads this:
God is happy when you have a quiet...
Joe: Another dream
I had a dream 6 months ago: all I can remember is sitting in a van driving down the street and someone said “I’m going to NOISE” I asked him what Noise was.
N___O____I____Soulful Expression. That’s all I could remember for the acronym.
Night of Intentional Soulful Expression?
Maybe something like that.
Anyway ,this dream came true a couple days ago. I had another...
Joe: Prayer Requests
Grace Mi:
Man, she always puts up a wall. Whenever I poke that wall, she says “you’re being weird Joe.” Or maybe I’m just being weird. She’s honest. She’s real with me. I think she has a lot of baggage. I think she’s homesick.
What type of Christian would she be? This thought is so strange to me. She would be revolutionary.
Lily Hao:
She puts me in my...
Joe: Rebuke
I was talking to one of my friends Dylan. I was just trying to self justify my actions in sharing the gospel all the time. I remembered he had a verse that said basically, we are to share the gospel always.
I wanted that verse to be God’s end all be all.
He told me he thought it was in 1 John.
It was not in 1 John. This is 1st John.
Love. Love Love. Show as much love as you can. You can...
Joe: Yesterday
Yesterday I was informed by my friend lily about what some of the nonchristians on campus think of me.
“Joe is so eccentric. If you want a speech on religion, you know who you should talk to? Joe.”
Hmm. Is this good or bad? I was sitting there thinking, shoot Am I messing up? Am I being a bad example of christ?
I was pondering over this question and then it occurred to me that I...
Daniel: Learning to be satisfied with God's...
I pray that You will always remind me that Your grace is enough for me in everything
Joe: When you are real with God, God will be real...
God, I know that a part of me doesn’t want to hear your voice, knowing that I will have to completely change, and that it will hurt. Part of me knows that most of the time when I read the Bible, I don’t change my life, and then, when that happens, I become less willing to read the Bible.
God let me delve into your word without the fear of inadequacy, without the fear of failure.
God,...
Joe: marginal rate of substitution
Jonathan Edwards: “Repentance is a sweet sorrow, so that the more of this sorrow, the more pleasure.”