The Beat Psalms: The Meaningful Man

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What does it take to be a man? Is it being tall in stature? Maybe possessing a muscular might? How about having a bushy beard, smelling of pine and wearing a worn out flannel shirt? Do these things make a man? I ask because through the years, our definition has seemed to change. No longer is a man…

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The Battle of the American Christian

1 John 2

 ¹⁵ Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world— the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. ¹⁷And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

Don’t sugarcoat your feelings. Don’t say one thing and live another. Honestly evaluate your life. What do you love? If you love God, you simply don’t love other things. What is most precious? What is your treasure? Does my life show this?

I just don't know

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You should integrate this into your life immediately.

John 8:28 (ISV)

“So Jesus told them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.”

Every other version adds in a “he” or something equivalent after “I am”, but “he” is no where to be found in the Greek. They do get it right in 8:58, and I know I’m no scholar, but I do think the ISV, a version I know little about, has it right in capitalizing it completely as it is the name of God.

The Fight of the Christian Hedonist

Daily this world brings things before your eyes and tells you, “This will make you happier,” and every moment we need to put our eyes skyward remembering that our absolute, everlasting, invincible joy is found in God alone. The things of this world may bring instant happy distractions, but the only thing that will last is the joy in our salvation. So in all things give glory to the Father with praise and thanksgiving, but seek God first and foremost. Pray earnestly for a heart that loves him above all things.

Oh man!

The Cape and No Ordinary Family got cancelled. Not only are they action-ish, they both weren’t saturated in this culture’s poor values and heightened sexuality. Too bad.

But all the better, more reason for me to not watch TV.

War! A sermon jam of John Piper’s sermon on Romans 8:10-17.

So utterly helpless.

I cannot desire or love God on my own. It has to start with a regeneration from God made possible through Christ’s death. I must pray much much much more often for God to awaken my heart to love him more and more and more, so that I can be more and more satisfied in Him and Him alone.

(Nehemiah 8:10) "The joy of the Lord is your strength."

I Will Not Be Shaken

The American church, myself included, need to “put our faces in the carpet and asked for the humble heart of Jesus to wreck our pride.” Demonstrations of God’s power and spirit will only come through a complete relying on God, relinquishing our abilities to His will.

"If we find God boring, we are like five-year-olds who find sex boring. The problem is not with sex."

From John Piper. I enjoyed receiving this tweet on my phone. I went to link to it for this and noticed that people on twitter were replying with comments such as, “Eww… pervy”, “EXCUSE ME?”, and other critiques. First of all, just because it says “sex” doesn’t make it innapropriate, and second of all, the point is that a 5 year old has not had sex and thus knows nothing of its good pleasures, like those who find God boring.