we have inadequacies May 14, 2008

I got this over email from godtoday.com

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Ephesians 6:10

It is not a sign of weakness to admit that we have inadequacies. It is
actually a sign of our dependence on the strength that lives within us. We
become a perfect candidate for the service of God when we realize, all that
we are and do, depends upon Him. It does not matter how hard we try to be
good; saying all the right words and doing all the proper things; we will
always fall short. We cannot save ourselves; we are not able to be enough
for God. Every righteous thing we try to do is vain. The good things that
emanate from our lives are the fruit of His Spirit that dwells within us.
What some may call weak is actually strength. If we could create our own
righteousness, we would have no need of the precious gift we have received
through Jesus Christ.

Christianity may mean nothing more than a religious system. May 13, 2008

Inspirational Readings by A.B. Simpson

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Days of Heaven on Earth

Christianity may mean nothing more than a religious system. The Christian life may mean nothing more than an earnest and honest attempt to follow and imitate Christ. The Christ life is more than these and expresses our actual union with the Lord Jesus Christ. He is actually in us as the life and source of all our experience and work. This conception of the highest Christian life is at once simpler and more sublime than any other. We do not teach that the purpose of Christ’s redemption is to restore us to Adamic perfection, for if we had it we should lose it tomorrow. Rather, it is to unite us with the second Adam, and to lift us up to a higher plane than our first parents ever knew. This is the only thing that can reconcile the warring elements of diverse schools of teaching with respect to Christian life. The Spirit of God will lead us to have no controversy respecting mere theories. Rather, we are simply to hold to the person and life of Jesus Christ Himself and the privilege of being united to Him through living in constant dependence upon His keeping power and grace.
Scripture
Abide in me—John 15:4

gettin’ work done May 9, 2008

And in him ye are made full, who is the head of all principality and power. Colossians 2.10.
I got this over email today..

Today many Christians are in a dilemma. They appear to be unable to die. Today they are bad, and tomorrow they will still be bad. No matter how much they try to be good, they try in vain. Oh, let me say that it is an erroneous gospel if it calls upon you to do it yourself.

All is done for us by Christ. This is His work. We ought to reckon what has been done in Him. What the Lord Jesus has accomplished is to cause us to be perfect in Him; and the Holy Spirit incorporates within us everything which is in Christ. He has not only died but has also been resurrected. When Christ died, we also died; when He was resurrected, we also were resurrected; and when He ascended, we also ascended. Our inheritance in Him is in fact far beyond our expectation.

Somebody to Love May 8, 2008

It is so funny, the further I move into Christ, the more i understand “secular” artists.
Queen, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead the list goes on…
Here we find that the whole time they were to trying to describe something that we desired, yet we spat in their face, kicking them to the curb.
Kinda reminds me of how we treated Jesus.
He didn’t come in our preconceived notion, so we rejected him

i want to be free May 8, 2008

we will rock you and we are the champions live May 8, 2008

freddie mercury letting the show go on.. May 8, 2008

Outside the Wall May 8, 2008

All alone, or in twos
The ones who really love you
Walk up and down outside the wall
Some hand in hand
Some gathering together in bands
The bleeding hearts and the artists
Make their stand
And when they’ve given you their all
Some stagger and fall after all it’s not easy
banging your heart against some mad buggers
Wall

crazy! May 8, 2008

Good morning, The Worm, Your Honour,
The Crown will plainly show,
The prisoner who now stands before you,
Was caught red-handed showing feelings.
Showing feelings of an almost human nature.
This will not do.
Call the schoolmaster!
I always said he’d come to no good,
In the end, Your Honour.
If they’d let me have my way,
I could have flayed him into shape.
But my hands were tied.The bleeding hearts and artists,
Let him get away with murder.
Let me hammer him today.
Crazy.
Toys in the attic, I am crazy.
Truly gone fishing.
They must have taken my marbles away.
Crazy.Toys in the attic, he is crazy.
You little shit, you’re in it now.
I hope they throw away the key.
You should’ve talked to me more often than you did.
But no! You had to go your own way.
Have you broken any homes up lately?
Just five minutes, Worm, Your Honour,
Him and me alone.Baaaaaabe!
Come to Mother, baby.
Let me hold you in my arms.
M’Lord, I never meant for him to get in any trouble.
Why’d he ever have to leave me?
Worm, Your Honour, let me take him home.
Crazy.
Over the rainbow, I am crazy.
Bars in the window.
There must have been a door there in the wall.
For when I came in.
Crazy.
Over the rainbow, he is crazy.
The evidence before the court is incontravertible.
There’s no need for the jury to retire.
In all my years of judging I have never heard before,
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law.
The way you made them suffer,
Your exquisite wife and mother,
Fills me with the urge to deficate!
No, Judge, the jury!
Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear,
I sentence you to be exposed before your peers.
Tear down the wall!

May 8, 2008

i’ve decided to feel again, the show must go on