"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”
Jimmy Carter
Thirty Ninth President of the United States
1924 - Present
SO WHAT?
We know the truth of the Bible is forever and ever going to be true. We also need to become people can hold on to that truth no matter what comes our way. When you feel discouraged and that there is no hope, hold on to the truth that you know is true.
Things will always come up in our lives that make us question and doubt what truth is. It is at those times when we must hold to what we know God has said.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
What Drives Your Heart?
"Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be."
Adlai E. Stevenson
American Politician
1900 - 1965
"I want to be that kind of person. A lover of God who is not satisfied with status quo and good enough. I want to leave a large footprint on the earth when it's my time to go. I have spent too much of my life reaching for success. What I want now is significance. I want my life to count. Becoming a man or woman after God's own heart is the vision that now drives my life.
Adlai E. Stevenson
American Politician
1900 - 1965
"I want to be that kind of person. A lover of God who is not satisfied with status quo and good enough. I want to leave a large footprint on the earth when it's my time to go. I have spent too much of my life reaching for success. What I want now is significance. I want my life to count. Becoming a man or woman after God's own heart is the vision that now drives my life.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
An Epic Life
A Story. An Epic.
Something hidden in the ancient past.
Something dangerous now unfolding.
Something waiting in the future for us to discover.
Some crucial role for us to play.
Christianity, in its true form, tells us that there is an Author and that he is good, the essence of all that is good and beautiful and true, for he is the source of all these things. It tells us that he has set our hearts’ longings within us, for he has made us to live in an Epic. It warns that the truth is always in danger of being twisted and corrupted and stolen from us because there is a Villain in the Story who hates our hearts and wants to destroy us. It calls us up into a Story that is truer and deeper than any other, and assures us that there we will find the meaning of our lives.
What if ?
What if all the great stories that have ever moved you, brought you joy or tears—what if they are telling you something about the true Story into which you were born, the Epic into which you have been cast?
We won’t begin to understand our lives, or what this so-called gospel is that Christianity speaks of, until we understand the Story in which we have found ourselves. For when you were born, you were born into an Epic that has already been under way for quite some time. It is a Story of beauty and intimacy and adventure, a Story of danger and loss and heroism and betrayal.
(Epic, 14-15)
Something hidden in the ancient past.
Something dangerous now unfolding.
Something waiting in the future for us to discover.
Some crucial role for us to play.
Christianity, in its true form, tells us that there is an Author and that he is good, the essence of all that is good and beautiful and true, for he is the source of all these things. It tells us that he has set our hearts’ longings within us, for he has made us to live in an Epic. It warns that the truth is always in danger of being twisted and corrupted and stolen from us because there is a Villain in the Story who hates our hearts and wants to destroy us. It calls us up into a Story that is truer and deeper than any other, and assures us that there we will find the meaning of our lives.
What if ?
What if all the great stories that have ever moved you, brought you joy or tears—what if they are telling you something about the true Story into which you were born, the Epic into which you have been cast?
We won’t begin to understand our lives, or what this so-called gospel is that Christianity speaks of, until we understand the Story in which we have found ourselves. For when you were born, you were born into an Epic that has already been under way for quite some time. It is a Story of beauty and intimacy and adventure, a Story of danger and loss and heroism and betrayal.
(Epic, 14-15)
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