November 19, 2009
“ I was recently asked by a non-Christian friend if I thought he was going to hell. I said, “I hope not. It will be hard to enjoy heaven without you.

Shane Claiborne - Letter to Non-Believers by Shane Claibourne - Esquire

Shane Claiborne writes a beautiful note to non-believers, sort-of-believers, and used-to-believers… in Esquire Magazine.

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November 14, 2009

Cookie Monster teaches how to Om Nom Nom. AHH! (via Johannes)

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November 13, 2009
“ Without Christ, where would I be?
LORD knows.
I might be dissin’ him in my songs
then fakin’ him at award shows.
I might think it was my duty to spit flows at fella’s dissin’
on BET - Booties Exposed Television.
Industry Rule Number Four Thousand Eighty One
is the Gospel industry is just as shady, son

I can’t say that I’m up in Gospel music enough to call out the entire industry like they are, but I know enough about some of it to know there’s more than just a grain of truth in the last line. As for the rest of this particular rhyme… on point.

From Lamp Mode Recording’s free EP Grass Roots (via Berry)

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Free Audiobook: Desiring God by John Piper

(via Bible Geek Gone Wild)

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It Made My Day - Little Moments of WIN

Tired of FML? Need a little encouragement? This site is awesome.

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November 11, 2009
(via jopan)

(via jopan)

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November 10, 2009
“ [L]ong-range, elaborately structed schemes for social service inevitably become inflexible, devoting more energy, finally, to the perpetuation of their own programs and prerogatives than to the needs of those they were created to serve.
Lawrence in All the Way to Heaven (via the other Lawrence)
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November 8, 2009
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The real work of planet-saving will be small, humble, and humbling, and (insofar as it involves love) pleasing and rewarding. Its jobs will be too many to count, too many to report, too many to be publicly noticed or rewarded, too small to make anyone rich or famous…

The great obstacle [to planet-saving] may be not greed but the modern hankering after glamour. A lot of our smartest, most concerned people want to come up with a big solution to a big problem. I don’t think that planet-saving, if we take it seriously, can furnish employment to many such people…
Wendell Berry via What We Need Is Here
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November 6, 2009
Subscribe to John Stott Daily Thought

I must admit—all of my great John Stott quotes come from here. (via Berry)

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“ Of this we are clear: man’s salvation rests on the fact of the cross, and neither on the preacher’s interpretation of it, nor on the hearers’ understanding of it. Our desire is that men should believe that fact, not accept our explanations. ‘Christ died for our sins’ is enough without any further elucidation. Moreover, our appeal is never that men should accept a theory about the cross but that they should receive a Person who died for them. To this end we shall continue to preach Christ crucified, because what is folly to the intellectualist and a stumbling-block to the moralist, remains the wisdom and the power of God (1 Cor. 1:23-24).
John Stott, “Authentic Christianity”, InterVarsity Press
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