January 2012
32 posts
What is grace?
It has been termed a lot of things: cheap grace, license to sin, prosperity gospel, doctrinal falsehood, etc… So what exactly is grace?
Taken from Tullian Tchividjin’s blog:
What is grace? Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return. Grace is love coming at you that has nothing to do with you. Grace is being loved when you are unlovable. The cliché...
2012: Year of Unceasing Fruitfulness
thekingdomwithin:
Jeremiah 17:8
He shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes, But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.
#meditate
“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nathanielstuart)
“Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via americankelsee)
Pretty much sums it up
“If ‘Jesus plus nothing’ really grips your heart and sets you free, you can walk into a difficult meeting and be bold, humble, and courageous because even if they pick you up and throw you out, ultimately you’ve lost nothing.”
— Tullian Tchividjian
“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in...”
– The Meaning of Marriage, Tim Keller
The title of the article I got this from was “you never marry the right person”. Brb, #pondering
Dream come true?!
“UM has a gorgeous campus in terms of the canals, lake, and landscaping. However, the buildings aren’t exactly made of “rustic” brick. On a good day, the combination of good weather and pretty landscaping leads to many students doing homework on the Green. The Green is a large section of grass in front of the library where you can find students doing homework, hanging out...
It's like this
We always feel that we need to perform. And when the stress overwhelms us, then we want to take a break and want to escape, even if its just for a while. And when we do, we feel guilty for escaping and not being productive (because the basis from the start is because we want to perform, right?) and then we start to feel guilty for feeling guilty, because in perfect love there is no fear, right? If...
December 2011
64 posts
“And so I rehabilitate myself— staying up late this Friday night in spite of...”
– Sylvia Plath (via petalsquotesandthorns)
Exactly.
“There is a center to the Bible and its message of grace. It is found in Jesus...”
– Sinclair B. Ferguson, from GraceQuotes.com
I know, I know
I haven’t been posting much original stuff and it’s all reblogging stuff ‘cos actually I do have a ton of topics to write about, but I haven’t really sat down to do any of them. I actually was looking forward to have a day in the holidays where I just sit at a coffee house and read and write freely but what in the world, I didn’t imagine that I wouldn’t have the...
“I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is...”
– Adam Young (via average-dreamer)
“The primary reason to study Blake and Dickinson and Freud and Dickens is not to...”
– Mark Edmundson (1952- )
“Remember, real progress in the Christian life is not gauged by our knowledge of...”
– — Elyse Fitzpatrick, Because He Loves Me
I really really love her works, so simple but yet never fails to remind me how much I’m loved!!
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like...”
– The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein (via petalsquotesandthorns)
Indeed we have been stolen from death and now raised to life with Christ! There’s nothing better :)
“Reading requires an act of empathy, really. What you’re doing when you’re...”
– Gary Shteyngart (via thebronzemedal)
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via bookmania)
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