Sam.W

South Indian Jesus Follower

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Our Father in Heaven,
Reveal who you are.
Set the world right
and do what’s best.
Keep us alive
with your daily provision.
Keep us forgiven
and forgiving others.
Keep us safe from ourselves
and the devil.

Amen!

~Matt 6v9-13, MSG

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.
~ Eugene Peterson

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Eugene Peterson on Karl Barth - "Because he refused to take himself seriously and decided to take God seriously he burdened neither himself nor those around him with gloomy, heavy seriousness of ambition or pride or son or self-righteousness."

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"They tried to bury us.
They didn't know we were seeds."

~ Mexican proverb

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"Clean the slate, God,
so we can start the day fresh!
Keep me from stupid sins,
from thinking I can take over your work;
Then I can start this day sun-washed,
scrubbed clean of the grime of sin."

-Psalm 19:13, MSG

[Sam.W @revsamw]

He is the apex of the world in its strivings towards God. All the kitsch to be found in Christian life and Christian art arises from the failure to take the humanity of Christ seriously."

–Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer [3/3]

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"The contemplative’s gaze continually returns with great attention to the humanity of Jesus. It is the inexhaustible treasure entrusted to us. The Son is no floating interstellar body: he is born of this earth and its history; [1/3]

[Sam.W @revsamw]

he comes from Mary just as he comes from the Father. He is grace ascending just as much as grace descending; he is just as much creation’s highest response to the Father as he is the Father’s Word to creation. He is no God in disguise, acting 'as if.' No. [2/3]

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Ultimately the only way of breaking the power of pride (undue love of self) is falling in love w/ something much greater.

~SundarK

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"Lord, cleanse us with the fire
that consumes all other fires
and fill us with the love that
transforms all other loves"

~Catherine of Siena

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."
~Ambrose Bierce

[Sam.W @revsamw]

God, help us
to be good listeners
when we are —
certain and in doubt,
vocal and in silence,
busy and bored.
May We become
aware of your ways.

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"Are we so focused on the work of GOD that we forget the person of GOD? Fruit is guaranteed if you abide in Christ.”

~Chan

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow.

God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

~Matthew 6:34 (MSG)

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Imagine if the Church practiced right living (orthopraxy) as much as it emphasized right thinking (orthodoxy), the world would respond with nothing less than doxology (Matt 5:16).

[Sam.W @revsamw]

I'm single-minded in pursuit of you; don't let me miss the road signs you've posted.

~PSALM 119:10, MSG.

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Keep your servant from
deliberate sins!
Don’t let them control me...
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O Lord, my Rock
and my Redeemer.

~Psalm 19:13-14

[Sam.W @revsamw]

The first woman I saw teaching the Bible was my mother. She taught in house church & churches in India & beyond. I went on to have great women professors who taught me in Seminary. I am indebted to each of them for their witness, insights and encouragement.

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~Roy Hession

[Sam.W @revsamw]

"You&I may give one another the impression of being earnest,godly christiansbut before the cross we have to admit that we are not that sort of person at all. AtCalvary the nakedtruth is staringdown at us all the time from the cross,challenging us to drop the pose & own the truth"

[Sam.W @revsamw]

Though some tongues just love the taste of gossip, those who follow Jesus have better uses for language than that. Don't talk dirty or silly. That kind of talk doesn't fit our style. Thanksgiving is our dialect.

~Eugene Peterson on Ephesians 5:4