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.