Living Life on Purpose....It is in the small stuff
Great lyrics from a great worship leader.
Great lyrics from a great song.
Obedience without relationship is nothing.
Grace Defined.
(via thebeautyofwanderlust)
Spring Tour - Atlanta: Jeremy Riddle, Steffany Frizzell-Gretzinger, William Matthews (by ibethelmusic)
Umm. This is how I like to start my morning
Is there anything better than worshiping our God?
Do you know that person who can be so moved by the spirit that they cry quiet dignified tears?
That person is not me. The presence of the Holy Spirt was tangible in church today. I went through five kleenex, practically ruined my makeup, and was a bit of a mess.
Loved every minute of it.
Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Judah Smith | It’s Complicated
wow wow wowIf you’ve ever questioned everything you believed.
(I know you guys are out there)
If you’ve ever found yourself tangled in what seems to be the complexity of our faith.
If you’ve ever laid in bed late at night with a deep sigh within your soul, repeating to yourself “I just don’t know”This is THE sermon for you. Please, please, please, take some time to watch this.
Judah absolutely kills this.
And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14)
The first time I watched this sermon this past Monday, I started it all over again the minute it was done. It was that good.
Since then, I’ve listened to more times than one should admit. I expect good things from Pastor Judah (we are on a first name basis even though I’ve never even seen him in person.;-))… But he even outdid himself with this one. The pure simplicity of The message of Jesus has never been better presented.
Thanks Ramses for having more time than me to post this…
Today I had the honor of speaking at the UNIS conference at the UN. After I was finished, three students recited original poems from the stage. One of them really blew me away:
Fluorescent Adolescence
Overqualified yet underachieving
It’s singing delightfully off key to the radio
Yet pitch perfect in the shower
It’s spending a half hour in the morning
Perfecting your messy bun
It’s gelling bedhead
It’s lifting weights yet covering yourself up in turtlenecks
It’s being a closet philosopher but blaming lackluster grades on “not trying?”
It’s tumbling, sharing, instagramming
The perpetual pursuit of cool but aloof,
hard to get,
wit,
sarcasm,
invincibility.It’s the cycle of hurting
Fixing
loving
hating
wanting
lying… and then telling the truth.
It sucks.
But perhaps when we’re older
a new set of problems will cause us to miss those of adolescence.
So I guess we should learn to love the pain,
Since it’s pain that allows us to live and love radically,
feel monumentally,
and smell the coffee or watch the stars, or hear the music
that we might later pass by in the rush of the real world.For now we are poets
And activists
Astronauts
Bloggers
Writers
Photographers
Teachers
Engineers and Inventors
For now, we are what we want to be.
Some say the grass is greener on the other side but I’d disagree:
I say our grass fluorescent.
This poem was beautiful.
Sad to see one of my favorite kids books get decimated after being a stowaway in the washer and dryer. :-( #haroldandthepurplecrayon
Yes, reading is one of my favorite hobbies. I love books with the power to challenge and inspire. A quote from today’s reading does not disappoint. #church
Small group the last few sessions has taught me a lot.
Lesson 1: It is okay to have a talk titled Great Expectations, (which is really about disappointment). But I definitely shouldn’t have my own expectations for how the discussion will go. Because I will only be disappointed.
Lesson 2: It is okay to ask the group what they “add on” to Christianity, or what they turn to instead of Jesus. Just don’t be surprised when we spend the entire time not talking about Jesus, and trying to solve a problem without the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
How is it possible that Jesus can be on my mind and in my heart literally every waking minute of my days… but I cant facilitate a group discussion which keeps the focus on Him!?!
so blessed to be a part of the city church. Jesus using Judah in amazing ways!
“You belong long before you believe or behave.” ~judah smith
