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Comment on Not Satisfied with being loved by God by VIDA GUERRA TAPE

VIDA GUERRA TAPE — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:38:10 +0000

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Comment on Not Satisfied with being loved by God by sandrar

sandrar — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:43:57 +0000

Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. Cheers! Sandra. R.

Comment on Does God lead us into Temptation? by KAT

KAT — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:50:36 +0000

“Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. ” (James 1:13,14 NAS95S)

Yes, that verse explains the question of if God leads us into temptation or not. But those are not Gods direct words, those words are from James. The Lord’s prayer is directly from Jesus right? What do you guys think?

Comment on I wish by Josh

Josh — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 09:01:58 +0000

dang I haven’t seen Stephanie in so long; anyway, yeah me too on that first point. As far as ideas for stuff on what to write, something that has been on my mind very recently has been the difference between hating sin and loving God. I don’t know if you can or want to write about that and it’s not really in response to any of your past posts or anything, but I finally gave in and commented on your blog so maybe you can put some of your thoughts down in that subject area.

Comment on I wish by stephabean

stephabean — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:21:53 +0000

yea agreed.

Comment on The precarious ledge of Relevance by Matthew Hauck

Matthew Hauck — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:16:48 +0000

That was a close one, for a second there, I thought you were referring to a flash bang altar call accompanied by cathartic ccm melodies for the hormonally melodramatic.

Is that really “relevance”? I totally agree with what you said, that we need to be speaking to people so that they listen and understand, not as though we are speaking at a wall. When I hear, “We need to be relevant”, I hear someone thinking about changing the essential content, not how it is communicated. I think what you’re saying is, “We need them to see how relevant Scripture really is!”, to which I firmly agree.

Comment on New things New things by junia

junia — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:27:43 +0000

taylor swift does not qualify as country music. hmph

Comment on About by Dave Hill

Dave Hill — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:04:41 +0000

Hi there:
I stumbled onto your blog and saw that your parents do some very fine work in China, where I live now as an expat teacher. One of my excellent students has a congenital heart defect and may undergo surgery in Urumqi, Xinjiang this summer.
Is it possible that you could ask your parents to give her some advice my email? She could later possible help in their projects here.If so, please give my email to your parents and I shall ask her to correspond with them if they have time.
Thanks
Dave
Urumqi

Comment on a different kind of youth group by bethia

bethia — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:18:18 +0000

same comment as andrea.

Comment on More than Nothing by Matthew Hauck

Matthew Hauck — Tue, 12 May 2009 00:34:05 +0000

Ed, might you be working under a false assumption that humans must be worth something in order for us to find true joy?

John Piper asks the question this way: “Do you feel most loved by God because He makes much of you, or because He frees you to enjoy making much of Him forever?” (Brothers We are Not Professionals, 16)

It is part of the age we live in that joy is found in valuing the self. For our age, being loved = being valued. God’s love, however, does not consist in making much of us, but rather in freeing us to make much of him.

Edwards, in The End For Which God Created the World, which I know you’ve read, says God has one chief and ultimate end, though it is composite: The glory of God / love for man. These are not two ends, but one. His glory is too good to be kept in and thus, for his glory’s sake, communicates goodness to his redeemed; and yet this is simultaneously the supreme act of love, since it gives us access to the infinite glory of God. Or, as Piper has rephrased it: “God is more glorified in us, when we are most satisfied in him.”

The value of living life is not found in value in ourselves, but in the value of knowing the eternal God. We are nothing, and this magnifies God’s love. Any dignity humans have (less so in a fallen state, more so in a redeemed state), is just a manifestation of our being made in the image of God, thus it points back to him anyway. Our song forever will be of his mercy in loving grasshoppers like us, not of our greatness.