We are inherently sinful! When I look at the law expressed in chapters 5 and 6 of Leviticus I see everyone living in sin. People sinned and it did not matter if they knew it or not sin was still sin. When I think about how difficult it has been for me to stay consistent in my Bible reading I can’t fathom how impossible it would be to keep up with the sacrifices. Continue Reading…
Archive - June, 2009
Sin’s burden and weight expressed in the law: Leviticus 5 and 6
grace 0.5
I have been starting to read through The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manning and I have been beaten down by the truth of God’s Grace. I have always thought of grace as that unmerited favor God bestows upon me but I don’t think the reality of what grace is sunk in until this afternoon. My thoughts about grace were not wrong but I never fully digested how grace needs to be understood fully and taken to heart before a wondrous world opens up.
As any christian would attest to we struggle daily with sin in many different forms whether it is vanity, lust, hate, sex, drugs, alcohol, pride, pornography, apathy the list is endless. I know many times I have looked at sin in my life and thought, “You know God doesn’t want me to look at this or that so I am going to do THIS to fix it!” It is a constant cycle that I have found myself in time and time again. If I only were able to get this straightened out. Continue Reading…
final moments
I have been thinking a lot about moments in my life where I had an experience that change my life to the core for the rest of my life. These moments may be joyful or painful but they are moments that shape us.
Spring 1997 – I was a freshman in college and I was stuck in a rut that I didn’t know how to get out of. I had started listening to music that was full of foul lyrics and also smoking cigars because my ‘friends’ in college were doing that. I remember crying myself to sleep one evening when I had hit a wall where I knew I was created for a life where I didn’t need these things in my life but I didn’t know how to get out of the rut I was in. Continue Reading…
Consistency 1.0
So I have not really been reading my Bible as I would like lately. I can easily feel like I am a bad christian or lack motivation because I have been lacking motivation. I don’t feel bad at all because:
Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of Me this night, for it is written, ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered.’ But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee.”
– Matthew 26:31 NASB Continue Reading…
