May 2011
36 posts
yes. for sure. →
What difference does it make if we speak like angels If we have all knowledge and we know every mystery What difference does it make if our faith moves mountains. If we give our money and die like martyrs. Hey – hey, Ho – ho. We have nothing if we don’t have love. Hey – hey, Ho – ho. We have nothing if we don’t have love. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy or boast in pride. ...
Shout it from the rooftops
Let the trumpets ring
Sing your fucking lungs out
Jesus Christ is King!
For God so hated the world He sent John Calvin.
Nailing shit to the door since 1517.
Bill Maher: If You Celebrated Bin Laden’s Death,... →
The critical principle of feminist theology is promotion of the full humanity of women. Whatever denies, diminishes, or distrots the full humanity of women is, therefore, appraised as not redemptive. Theologically speaking, whatever diminishes or denies the full humanity of women must be presumed not to reflect the divine or an authentic relation to the divine, or reflect the authentic nature of...
Psalm 40
Do not withhold your mercy from me, LORD; may your love and faithfulness always protect me. For troubles without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me. Be pleased to save me, LORD; come quickly, LORD, to help me.
get it mark.
I rarely look to the ones I love in binary terms of right and wrong…I’m not sure God does either.
What if we only spoke of faith as experience rather than ideology/philosophy?
I’m sorry that I stain the name of God.
PCUSA Open and Affirming! →
Roots.
My Summer with Young Life.
People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be...
Violence is a lie, for it goes against the truth of our faith, the truth of our...
– Pope John Paul II (via brandtrusso)
the biggest threat to faith is not doubt, but a relentless God revealed in Jesus.
Preached in an Easter Sunday Service by Nadia Bolz-Weber.
Once upon a time, the God of the Universe was basically fed up with being on the receiving end of all our human projections, tired of being nothing more to us than what we thought God should be: angry, show-offy, defensive, insecure, in short, the vengeance-seeking tyrant we would be if we were God. So, at that time, over 2,000 years ago,...
Labyrinth
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another day to expierence forgiveness.
another day to live salvation.
another day to bring about the not yet.
another day to taste and see the goodness of God.
another day to surrender.
another day to celebrate.
another day to fall in love with Love.
“Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing...