Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Tuesday, May 8, 2012

The problem with my sin is that I don’t even realize that I am compromising until people get hurt or things get broken.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Father please forgive me for I can not compose
The fear that lives within me
Or the rate at which it grows
If struggle has a purpose
On the narrow road you’ve carved
Why do I dread my trespasses will leave a deadly scar

Do they see the fear in my eyes?
Are they so revealing?
This time I cannot disguise
All the doubt I’m feeling

What if I stumble, what if I fall?
You never turn in the heat of it all
What if I stumble, what if I fall?
You are my comfort, and my God

Jars of Clay
Friday, May 4, 2012
Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live. Deuteronomy 30:6
Sunday, April 29, 2012

Tune my heart to sing of Your grace

           D              A
Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, 
        G                 D
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
           D/F#            A
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, 
         G                D
Call for songs of loudest praise
         Bm7              D
Teach me some melodious sonnet, 
         Bm7              G
Sung by flaming tongues above
             D                A
Praise His Name,  I'm fixed upon it, 
         G             D
Name of Gods redeeming love



Verse 2:
       D                  A
Oh to grace how great a debtor, 
        G                 D
Daily I'm constrained to be
        D/F#               A
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, 
         G                  D
Bind my wandering heart to Thee
          Bm7           D/F#
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, 
          Bm7              G
Prone to leave the God I love
           D/F#               A
Here's my heart, Oh take and seal it, 
         G               D
Seal it for Thy courts above

Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012

On homelessness

I want to end homelessness in Philadelphia.

Might turn into a masters thesis…

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

he will flee from you…

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” - James 4:7

If I don’t resist the devil will he chase after me? When I’m angry and I think about the worst case scenarios, I let my thoughts sit there in my mind. But they never just sit they fester, convolute the situation, and leaves me feeling bitter.

I want to find strength in knowing that drawing near to God means that the devil will run away from me.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Restore onto me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit  Psalm 51:12
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Romans 5:1-4
Sunday, April 15, 2012
The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s grace breaks into your life against your will and saves you from the sin and brokenness otherwise you would never be able to overcome… religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference. Tim Keller
Saturday, April 14, 2012
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Word. So humbling…

1 John 3:16

Sunday, April 8, 2012 Friday, April 6, 2012
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to our own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
 - Isaiah 53:5-6