The Better Question

The better question to ask than "How can I glorify God" is "How can I enjoy him"

Random Thought 1041

Freedom is getting to be what you are created to be

"I never made a sacrifice"

"I never made a sacrifice"

- David Livingstone to Cambridge students about his leaving the "benefits" of England

To read David Livingstone's quote and to say, "What a good man!" is to insult his message. Hope you say, "What a smart man, and what a Good God"

Our need for the Gospel

"Our need for the Gospel is like this:

When you plant a tiny seed, all that it needs is sunlight, water, nutrients from the soil and air. And then it becomes a mighty tree.

When it becomes a mighty tree, all that it needs is sunlight, water, nutrients from the soil and air. "

- Sarah Rufus

Desire v/s Discipline

Desire will last forever, discipline only in this world.

Desire 1 Discipline 0

Life Announcement #1

If and when you have a band, and if and when you do a cover for "The hardest part" by ColdPlay... can I do the vocals? pretty please? and when you call me up on stage to sing, even if I look embarrassed... and am doing the "Who me? Nooo! " stuff... I WANT to sing, ok?, trust the me today. The me in future is just playing games.

( You can tell I am dreaming, isn't it?)

Gaining Victory over Sin

Gaining victory over Sin is like walking on sea in the midst of a storm. If you look to Him, you will.

God once dwelt here

"Sometimes you see an old ruin in the country, an old castle, or a hull  and there is a notice saying that so and so once lived here. That kind of notice can be put up on Human Beings - 'God once dwelt here' "
- Some Puritan

Random Thought #531

If I live each day of my life blind staggering drunk on grace, I think it will be well lived. 

Robert Farrar Capon on Grace

"The Reformation was a time when men went blind, staggering drunk because they had discovered, in the dusty basement of late medievalism, a whole cellar full of fifteen-hundred-year-old, two-hundred-proof grace—of bottle after bottle of pure distillate of Scripture, one sip of which would convince anyone that God saves us single-handedly. The word of the gospel—after all those centuries of trying to lift yourself into heaven by worrying about the perfection of your bootstraps—suddenly turned out to be a flat announcement that the saved were home before they started…Grace has to be drunk straight: no water, no ice, and certainly no ginger ale; neither goodness, nor badness, nor the flowers that bloom in the spring of super spirituality could be allowed to enter into the case.”, 

 - Robert Farrar Capon

"For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified."

Romans 8: 29-30

Random Thought # 450

The need for apologetics and debates is very highly overrated

A dozen reasons to why I like watching movies in the cinema halls

1. They are entertaining, and I like being entertained.

2. Going to the cinema hall is expensive in terms of time and money. I think entertainment should come at a reasonable cost.

3. Unlike television, this environment is controlled. You generally don't switch to another channel/movie when one is done.

4. Talking about movies is an excellent way to engage people in conversations... especially with people you meet the first time, like on an air plane. What movies people like, tells me a lot about who they are.

5. Rotten tomatoes! You get a decent idea about what to expect.

6. Censor ratings - they help you sift.

7. Putting our butts to rest and being overawed by something spectacular is what we will be doing in Heaven. If not a lot, atleast a small part of why we like watching moviesand why movies of a certain kinda re made is that we are spiritual beings. (Or, I would say that that fact that we like movies, stories, fiction shows us that we are spiritual.). Some movies remind me of that. They make me long for the better.

8. It gives me a good picture of where the world is at, what it finds exciting. It helps, kinda like reading a newspaper.

9. Most movies ( or the movies I tend to watch) have a message. I like it when genuine people have a genuine message to give. Even I have one.

10. Daily living tends to get me focussed on really small things... about me and my life and how things are not working out. Movies can get me focussed on the larger picture. I like that.

11. Somewhere, at the back of my head, the reason I watch movies is that when I meet someone like me who genuinely likes movies/stories I can take the joy in agreeing with him and then genuinely say,  "Jesus Christ is so much better".

12 Because my father and my grandfather likes / liked watching movies. I think I got this from them. 

JK Rowling - Harvard Commencement Speech

Advice for Athiests

To be a genuine, skilled and an effective atheist - an atheist at heart who truly believes what he says, (especially to be the kind that attacks Christianity or at the minimum, the kind that will have a slightly more lasting effect on me, a Christian) you should understand Christianity... so that when you fire your arrows at it you know you have aimed for the right target.

I don't have much of a problem with the fact that you attack Christianity (I am quite for it) but with that your arrows miss it completely and that you call whatever it hits Christianity. Then I have to go pick up the arrow and say, "Hey, you gotta aim correctly". Don't get me wrong. I think you are skilled. You just gotta know what you want to aim at.


Somewhere there, my friend, somewhere where you want to aim at lies the best news of your life. 

Random thought 353

I may be God's worst son...
                    ... but He is my Father nevertheless.

Universal Fact # 33

 My niece loves me

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