Read this blog post and especially appreciated the list of contrasts between the "Leaderman" (self-motivated leader) and the "Servant-leader" (Christ motivated leader) at the end of the post. It really lined up with a conversation I had with some friends last night about the curse of following a man/"spiritual" leader that's not walking with God versus the blessings (plural!) of learning from and following a man who is following God and clearly growing in Christ.
"By their fruit ye shall know them . . ."
Here's to "Religious Leaders", Jesus-Style
Friday, August 26, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
I told my momma I would update my blog . . .
. . . so I am. By the way, this is not my biological "momma" but (one of my many) college momma(s). Apologies to the other two mothers I had in college. You know I still love you!
The summer has quickly flown away from me, and I am looking at the last week and a half before school starts. Amazing how much time we have until we check the calendar. My youngest brother's birthday is tomorrow, and guess what - I've already got his present. Ha! So much for my procrastinating ways! (Okay, so I'm reading his present - and what's wrong with that, I ask? Shouldn't I know it's good before recommending it to him? It is, by the way, quite good. He may get more of the series for Christmas if he doesn't buy them himself. ;)
I've been at school all week: Maunday, Tuesday, Wensday (You will not get this joke if you have not watched You've Got Mail or The Godfather; and I haven't watched the Godfather, so imagine Tom Hanks' voice.) My bookshelves are emptying of books so old they are falling apart and disgusting, or too juvenile for my age group; and I am filling them back up (in a more organized fashion - thanks, Bekah!) with the wonderful books I have had sitting in boxes in my classroom all summer. It's quite fun! But my room is therefore a wreck, and I've got to get this project done so that I can get my room cleaned and decorations up for the Open House tomorrow night.
I'm only here at school for the morning. For lunch, I'm meeting an old friend from childhood, Laura, and hopefully treating her to lunch as my gift for her wedding. She and her now-husband stood up at the end of the church service this past Sunday and were married by my dad. This afternoon, I will be making gluten-free cupcakes for the celiac people at my friend Anna's wedding. And this evening, Bible study at Starbucks with Adrienne and Jill. God is so good to give me such blessings in my life!
Now, I've followed my instructions and updated, so, dear friends, do not leave me disappointed when I check your blogs. Let's always keep writing . . . however infrequently!
The summer has quickly flown away from me, and I am looking at the last week and a half before school starts. Amazing how much time we have until we check the calendar. My youngest brother's birthday is tomorrow, and guess what - I've already got his present. Ha! So much for my procrastinating ways! (Okay, so I'm reading his present - and what's wrong with that, I ask? Shouldn't I know it's good before recommending it to him? It is, by the way, quite good. He may get more of the series for Christmas if he doesn't buy them himself. ;)
I've been at school all week: Maunday, Tuesday, Wensday (You will not get this joke if you have not watched You've Got Mail or The Godfather; and I haven't watched the Godfather, so imagine Tom Hanks' voice.) My bookshelves are emptying of books so old they are falling apart and disgusting, or too juvenile for my age group; and I am filling them back up (in a more organized fashion - thanks, Bekah!) with the wonderful books I have had sitting in boxes in my classroom all summer. It's quite fun! But my room is therefore a wreck, and I've got to get this project done so that I can get my room cleaned and decorations up for the Open House tomorrow night.
I'm only here at school for the morning. For lunch, I'm meeting an old friend from childhood, Laura, and hopefully treating her to lunch as my gift for her wedding. She and her now-husband stood up at the end of the church service this past Sunday and were married by my dad. This afternoon, I will be making gluten-free cupcakes for the celiac people at my friend Anna's wedding. And this evening, Bible study at Starbucks with Adrienne and Jill. God is so good to give me such blessings in my life!
Now, I've followed my instructions and updated, so, dear friends, do not leave me disappointed when I check your blogs. Let's always keep writing . . . however infrequently!
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Drifting?
I posted this quotation last year, but was looking back and liked it so much I wanted to remember it again.
"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
~ D.A. Carson
"People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated."
~ D.A. Carson
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Nothing in My Hand I Bring
“Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven (Matt. 7:21).”
‘You don’t wanna go to hell do you?’ What are you trying to get them saved based on self-preservation? You set a field on fire and every venomous snake in that field will run away from that fire, but when it does it’s still a venomous snake. The question is not, ‘Do you want to go to heaven?’, or ‘do you want to escape hell?’. The question is, ‘Has God so worked in your heart that you want God?’. Has God so worked in your heart through the gospel I’ve preached unto you that the sin you once loved you now hate? . . . Do you see that you have no merit to yourself and that the only way to God is through the virtue and the merit of Christ and what He did for you on that tree? . . . Can you cast yourself upon it, forsaking everything, repenting even of good deeds . . . Repenting, turning away from trusting in your good deeds, and throwing yourself on Christ alone!
from YouTube: Paul Washer: CAN I GET SAVED AND LIVE IN SIN?
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