nothing in my hand I bring, simply to the cross I cling
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Are you satisfied in God? Or do you keep moving to the next thing, looking for satisfaction that never fulfills?
Remember: Jesus is our living water, who satisfies us day after day.
Sermon: “The Tragic Cost of Her Cavernous Thirst”
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If you are in Christ, your judgment has already been carried out at the cross. His death was your death; his life is now in you. That’s why you can have a living hope.
Sermon: For This Purpose I Have Come to This Hour
the boys are back. go get you some colony house for your weekend.
77 (Pt. 1)
Out Now
PART 1 IS HERE!
We can’t believe it!
With every album we make, we learn a little more about ourselves & how to better communicate the things we are passionate about. We always push to dig up new ground, and 77 (Pt. 1) is no exception.
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Grant Braden retweeted
John MacArthur in a sermon (1976): “Just imagine a world full of wonderful Christians, without imperfections. Pure bliss. Imagine only the deepest, divine love for one another, all of us united. What an incredible thought. I mean, think about it, sitting in a corner with Elijah and spending a few decades with him. Amazing.
I want to meet the saints. I want to see Adam and Eve. I believe they’ll be there. I’d like to ask what it was like in the beginning. I think Abel will be there, and I want to ask him once and for all, what was really going on with those sacrifices? I want to understand it clearly.
I want to know what it felt like to ride to heaven in a chariot and never die. I want to find out where Enoch went when he took that walk and ended up in heaven.
My son always tells me, ‘The first person I want to see in heaven is Samson.’ Hero worship, I suppose. As for me, I want to talk to David. I’ve always loved David. And I’d like to spend time with some of the prophets, especially Josiah. He intrigues me: so patient, so loving, so forgiving.
And of course, I need to see Paul and Silas and Barnabas and John. I just can’t believe it sometimes … do you realize that we’re only a split second away from being with all of them? It’s incredible. Sometimes it feels like they’re so far away. But then someone I know dies, and I think, ‘Wow, I was looking at this all wrong again.’
All of that is amazing. But let me tell you the most important reason I want to be with him. I just want to tell him … and I don’t even know how to say it right, ‘Lord, thank you. I blew it so many times. I failed so many times. My life was so incomplete. But I just want you to know that I really do love you.’
I won’t know how to say thanks properly. But maybe, just maybe, something I did somewhere along the way made him smile. And if it did, well, that would be everything. I just want to be there. I’ve loved him. I’ve longed for him. I’ve prayed with him, communed with him, and served him — however limited I’ve been. All my life, I’ve desperately wanted to know his fullness. And more than anything else, that’s what I want: to know his fullness … and to experience his presence completely, without hindrance, without hang-ups, without the flesh in the way. With no more obstacles.”
Grant Braden retweeted
Why Do People Start Attending Church?
Advertisement: 2%
Organized visit: 6%
Invite from a pastor: 6%
Invite from a friend: 86%
(Source: 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘖𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘈𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘨𝘯)
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Santa vs. Jesus
I love this poem from @GlenScrivener.
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Michael Jordan: “How can I find peace away from the game of basketball?”
Peace is available, Ja—just not where you may be looking: shorturl.at/dyLNV
I'm really proud of my buddy for chasing his dream. Go check out DRob's new LP.
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Grant Braden retweeted
We avoid spiritual drift by dropping the anchor of our souls in the deep waters of the Word of God.
From the highest throne is flashes of lightning and rolls of thunder
Yet He knows the number of hairs upon my head, I'm full of wonder
That the One with universal power would be personal
With His creation as He unfolds His gracious purposes so perfectly
@BeautifulEulogy
Cosmic cliffs & a sea of stars. @NASAWebb reveals baby stars in the Carina Nebula, where ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds shape colossal walls of dust and gas. nasa.gov/webbfirstimages #UnfoldTheUniverse
ALT The image is divided horizontally by an undulating line between a cloudscape forming a nebula along the bottom portion and a comparatively clear upper portion. Speckled across both portions is a starfield, showing innumerable stars of many sizes. The smallest of these are small, distant, and faint points of light. The largest of these appear larger, closer, brighter, and more fully resolved with 8-point diffraction spikes. The upper portion of the image is blueish, and has wispy translucent cloud-like streaks rising from the nebula below. The orangish cloudy formation in the bottom half varies in density and ranges from translucent to opaque. The stars vary in color, the majority of which, have a blue or orange hue. The cloud-like structure of the nebula contains ridges, peaks, and valleys – an appearance very similar to a mountain range. Three long diffraction spikes from the top right edge of the image suggest the presence of a large star just out of view.
"...And if we are implicitly teaching our kids that soccer is more important than church or that Sunday sports come first, and church fits in when it can, that's a powerful message we’re sending."
Thankful for this.
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Why are there strollers for dogs and cats? Better question - why do I see men pushing said strollers?
Whoever started saying the phrase, "I could just eat him/her up" when talking to a child? How is that culturally acceptable?
My two-year-old son got his first haircut today. The woman cutting his hair asked if we wanted to keep a lock of it. What in the world do people do with their child's hair??
Grant Braden retweeted
Piper on Matt 6:19–20 (in 1983): “Quit being satisfied with little 5.25% yields of pleasure that get eaten up by the moths of inflation and the rust of death. Invest in the blue-chip, high-yield, divinely-insured securities of heaven.”
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Isaiah 40:28
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Piper: “Satan wants you to quit. He wants you out of the ministry — or at least out of fruitfulness. He wants you paralyzed with discouragement. Tell him to go to hell.”
"He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" Romans 8:32
Most people will look up next year and realize how Memphis in May will never be the same. If you missed the 2019 festival, you missed the last chance to truly experience MIM.
The near-term future for Memphis in May International Festival may hinge less on the status of the global pandemic and more on the outcome of the $60M redesign of Tom Lee Park, MIM's CEO said. bizjournals.com/memphis/news…