December 2011
53 posts
“One of the worst things men can do is nothing.”
– Mark Driscoll
November 2011
63 posts
“Is there anything in your life or ministry in competition with the Gospel?”
– Eric Mason
“Most people in this realm are afraid of the Holy Spirit because they are...”
– Eric Mason
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“The cross is also the invitation that you can also be okay with other people.”
– Steve Carter
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“If you are a part of this community - you are going to be family - and we are...”
– Steve Carter
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“No man can lead a woman who refuses to follow - even if he is Patton.”
– Matt Chandler
“Life is like a broken pencil - pointless.”
– Edmund Blacklatter
“To be a Christian you have to take credit for what someone else did”
– Mike Pilavachi
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Beginning to Define "Good, Better or Best"
Options.
From August 2010 to August 2011, my life did not feature any options. I was stuck. I was limited. I had no choice but to take what was on the table in front of me. The realities of graduation were here. I had bills to pay. Seminary was beckoning. Excitement was here, but adulthood had fully beckoned.
I knew two things for certain - life was meant to be lived out in Fullerton and I did...
“We are blind to our own idols - every society is”
– Mike Pilavachi
“Our lives are centered on reconciliation. We are continually reconciling...”
– This is a theme of my season… Via @missionyear
“Attractional success blinds you to your lack of incarnational engagement.”
– Darrin Patrick
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“Every gift of God is to be enjoyed as from God and not like a god.”
– Michael Oh
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“Any leader who allows chaos to exist or just passes chaos down to the team...”
– James Brown
“We are not defined by what we think, know, even believe, but by what we love.”
– James KA Smith
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“We haven’t preached the gospel til we have given someone something to believe...”
– Henry Holloman
“I don’t want to play spiritual Dodgeball…”
– Henry Holloman
This, old school, overhead projector using, gravel in his voice professor is full of great one liners.
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“Need to be humbled, go to the ocean.”
– Ben Mandrell
alltheships:
“It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.”
—Voltaire
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“The call of God is very individualized.”
– Glen G. Scorgie (via aharlequinfaith)
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“Never question the truth of what you fail to understand, for the world is filled...”
– Frederick Buechner, Sacred Journey (via Glen G. Scorgie)
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“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to...”
– Bill Cosby
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Marriage and Wedding :: Cultural Query? →
I was perusing the internet tonight when this article was presented to me. I am not a soccer fan, so I don’t ever click on those articles to read - but when the headline was about a coach missing his son’s wedding, I was intrigued. So I clicked.
Honestly, this article fascinates me. Let me share with you the most insightful bit:
Pierfilippo told the Independent that his dad missing...
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“Not only the worst of my sins, but the best of my duties speak me a child of...”
– William Beveridge
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“When once we realize that through the salvation of Jesus Christ we are made...”
– Oswald Chambers (via tbexy)
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“We must not sell our souls in order to market Jesus.”
– Glen G. Scorgie (via aharlequinfaith)
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Be Ready, My Son
Good, better or best?
As I sat through the night last night, I sat and observed my brother, friend and mentor - Dan Allan. I heard him talk and share from his heart. I was drawn back to my two summers with him, in community, on mission. It stirred my heart with the reasons why CRU captivated my time in college. It stirred my soul with reminders of how God used CRU and this man to change my life.
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Journeying Back With CRU - Night 1
Earlier today, a great friend and sister of mine from RHF sent me a text. In it, she said some pretty amazing, God inspired things. It’s so good, I’m just gonna quote her:
We make our decisions based on good, better or best. Praying a posture of surrender over you. Praying open hands. May you have the discernment to see what category this job falls into. And the courage to receive...
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“Real theology must end with the ‘So what?’ question.”
– Glen G. Scorgie (via aharlequinfaith)
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Movember and Jonas Hiller →
Heck Yes!
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“The Church has to become better storytellers.”
– Steve Carter
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“The more carefully we observe the workings of our own wills, the surer will be...”
– William Shedd
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The Next Season?
The time has come to finally bring clarity and speak the details of what God is up to. I have waited patiently and purposely for this time to come before I release this information, but now the time has come to open the vault and let the dam flow.
This week I will be hanging out in Anaheim with staffers and leaders from Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU) that work on the campuses of the Pacific...
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The Art of Holding Your Life Loosely
“I hold my life loosely so You can hold it tight.”
A couple of months back, when I was wrestling with God through life, me and Him were having a conversation. In this conversation He reminded me of the phrase I cling to as the earth spins - “hold your life loosely”. Then He added to it the idea how I practice this not because I do anything, but because by holding my life...
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“Many small group ministries play it safe and fail to account for the reality...”
– Darrin Patrick
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“The error of always speaking of Jesus & avoiding ‘gospel’ is...”
– Steve Timmis
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A Journey Into My Mind
I have been hiking this adventure for a while now. The exploration has last five months. During this time I have been camping out. I have waited. I have sought. I have explored. Questions have been asked. Scenarios have been run through. The summit has been approached. I can see it.
Thing is, even though I can see the summit, I don’t know what the summit actually is. At the top of the...
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“The error of always using gospel & seldom speaking of Jesus - it...”
– Steve Timmis
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“If we’re constantly the voice of the Holy Spirit to our kids, we control...”
– via @truministry on twitter
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“the most profound and commonly overlooked aspect of learning is recognizing the...”
– paul dzubinski
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“If everyone is agreeing with what you’re saying and doing, then what...”
– Carlos Whitaker
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“God manifests his creative greatness in small objects as much as in his very...”
– Tertullian
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WatchI was 3 when this video of Kirby Puckett happened. I grew up watching it. It’s a memory I have as a baseball fan. I believe, my father talked to me about it for years…
One day, I hope I can share this next video with my son like my dad with me…
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“Life is a lot tougher than school, my dears.”
“But the right thing to do is to...”
– Boy Meets World (via facelessinla)
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Freese Walk Off →
(Sorry, I couldn’t embed it)
One day, I hope to be able to tell my son about the night this happened. How I ignored homework and watched this game with my father.
This is baseball at it’s finest.
It creates Father-Son memories. I’m 24 years old and I still have them with my father. I’m so grateful.
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“I wear knit caps when it’s cold outside. You wear them because of...”
– from Two Broke Girls
This line was the perfect lead in to convince me to finish watching the pilot.
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“Kids, you can’t talk yourself into falling in love. It doesn’t take days of...”
– Narrator, How I Met Your Mother 