Sunday, January 25, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Idolatry
Most people define “idolatry” as the worship of a physical object as a god. Is idolatry simply a “God-substitute” or can it be something that distracts us not just from God but His intentions, His heart, His pleasures…
RANDOM RANTS - 2009
I am discovering insight (not necessarily truth) from a lot of places. God is messing with my sources. I am discovering the pride, arrogance, and greed of America on FOX NEWS. I am finding an America that is hungering for “a substance hoped for not yet seen” on CNN and NPR. Neither snapshot is truth. Neither source is truth. God is truth and the solution to all insights.
I can be watching some random television show and God show me the underlying hurt of the sequences that I am viewing. Unfortunately, the tragedy of the revelation is that He is not portrayed as the solution. We must fight. We must fight for the glory of our God and for the tears of his cherished creation.
God is connecting me, using some very unlikely tools, with the hurt and pain of others. As a result, intercession is exploding. Life is becoming a series of stories. Every story is becoming a picture of life with God or a picture of life without God. I find myself crying during comedies and laughing in dramas. I am discovering the joy of God in Him being in the story and the absolute passion of God to be in the story.
The themes in my life that I can not shake are Justice, Truth, Trust, and Intercession.
I am tired of misplaced trust. I am tired of misused theology. I am tired of “mis-focused” perspective and expression. They are all missed opportunities and all church issues.
Evil and sin represent a need for God. If I flee from oppressive areas, I disqualify myself as an agent of freedom.
I can be watching some random television show and God show me the underlying hurt of the sequences that I am viewing. Unfortunately, the tragedy of the revelation is that He is not portrayed as the solution. We must fight. We must fight for the glory of our God and for the tears of his cherished creation.
God is connecting me, using some very unlikely tools, with the hurt and pain of others. As a result, intercession is exploding. Life is becoming a series of stories. Every story is becoming a picture of life with God or a picture of life without God. I find myself crying during comedies and laughing in dramas. I am discovering the joy of God in Him being in the story and the absolute passion of God to be in the story.
The themes in my life that I can not shake are Justice, Truth, Trust, and Intercession.
I am tired of misplaced trust. I am tired of misused theology. I am tired of “mis-focused” perspective and expression. They are all missed opportunities and all church issues.
Evil and sin represent a need for God. If I flee from oppressive areas, I disqualify myself as an agent of freedom.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Spurgeon Quote
"There is a goodness, a willingness, a powerfulness, a force, an energy in all that Jesus does that makes him to be the best possible Shepherd that can be."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Timely Quote
"In my opinion, the great single need of the moment is that light-hearted superficial religionists be struck down with a vision of God high and lifted up, with His train filling the temple. The holy art of worship seems to have passed away like the Shekinah glory from the tabernacle. As a result, we are left to our own devices and forced to make up the lack of spontaneous worship by bringing in countless cheap and tawdry activities to hold the attention of the church people."
A. W. Tozer
A. W. Tozer
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