This incredible. Patterns don’t have to be repeated. Jesus can restore and renew in a single generation. Dads who didn’t have good dads: you can do this thru the power of the Holy Spirit.
At least since 1973 (Roe v. Wade) our nation has been embracing a culture of death, while expecting society to value human life. It simply doesn’t work that way. We reap what we sow.
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It is just another chart, but writing it caused my soul to worship.
Christian, one day the "already" will smash into the "not yet" when we arrive on that golden shore in the glorious "now."
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“There is an infinite distance between the betterment of an age by the force of an advancing civilization and its betterment by the increase of holiness and Christ-likeness by the energy of prayer.”
- E.M. Bounds, in Power Through Prayer (59)
John MacArthur in a sermon (1976): “Just imagine a world full of wonderful Christians, without imperfections. Pure bliss. Imagine only the deepest, divine love for one another, all of us united. What an incredible thought. I mean, think about it, sitting in a corner with Elijah and spending a few decades with him. Amazing.
I want to meet the saints. I want to see Adam and Eve. I believe they’ll be there. I’d like to ask what it was like in the beginning. I think Abel will be there, and I want to ask him once and for all, what was really going on with those sacrifices? I want to understand it clearly.
I want to know what it felt like to ride to heaven in a chariot and never die. I want to find out where Enoch went when he took that walk and ended up in heaven.
My son always tells me, ‘The first person I want to see in heaven is Samson.’ Hero worship, I suppose. As for me, I want to talk to David. I’ve always loved David. And I’d like to spend time with some of the prophets, especially Josiah. He intrigues me: so patient, so loving, so forgiving.
And of course, I need to see Paul and Silas and Barnabas and John. I just can’t believe it sometimes … do you realize that we’re only a split second away from being with all of them? It’s incredible. Sometimes it feels like they’re so far away. But then someone I know dies, and I think, ‘Wow, I was looking at this all wrong again.’
All of that is amazing. But let me tell you the most important reason I want to be with him. I just want to tell him … and I don’t even know how to say it right, ‘Lord, thank you. I blew it so many times. I failed so many times. My life was so incomplete. But I just want you to know that I really do love you.’
I won’t know how to say thanks properly. But maybe, just maybe, something I did somewhere along the way made him smile. And if it did, well, that would be everything. I just want to be there. I’ve loved him. I’ve longed for him. I’ve prayed with him, communed with him, and served him — however limited I’ve been. All my life, I’ve desperately wanted to know his fullness. And more than anything else, that’s what I want: to know his fullness … and to experience his presence completely, without hindrance, without hang-ups, without the flesh in the way. With no more obstacles.”
My three girls are safe with their grandparents after being evacuated by helicopter from Camp Mystic. My wife and I are in Nice, France trying to get home to Austin. Long shot but if anyone happens to be flying anywhere near ATX from Nice tmw and can spare two seats pls dm
The church was never intended to be an instrument of human politics. It was not established to exalt political parties, fallen persons, and social policies. Its one purpose is to exalt and make known Jesus Christ and him crucified. Those who use his name in vain will be judged.