a convicting thought

Jesus never told us to pray for the sick. He only told us to heal the sick. -Mark DuPont

Playing For Change: Song Around the World | Stand By Me @ Yahoo! Video

Who employs the people that just get to go around the world and make sweet videos?

what we forget

We tend to forget that we have not always been where we are.

BRITAINS GOT TALENT 2009 SUSAN BOYLE

Amazing. Never let anyone look down on you--because of your youth or your age, your looks or your taste. Be you and don't be afraid to dream.

(or just search on youtube. i don't know why it won't embed)

a true passion

We are at a turning point in the church. Th old way of doing things is not working. Something has to change. The church was not placed on this planet to entertain people for one hour a week. The church was created by God to be the ongoing presence of his Son Jesus with skin on. The church was born for greatness. But when the church substitutes passion for God's glory with lesser passions, it is doomed to fail. That is why I believe apostolic passion is the missing dimension in much of the church today. God's response to terrorists, Islamic extremists, and Christian fundamentalists is the same. He calls all humankind to repent and turn to him. Jesus issues the same radical call today that he gave two thousand years ago: "Take up your cross and follow me!" This is the source of true passion. All other passions are imitations of, mere replacements for, the holy passion of God's love.

from You See Bones, I See An Army by Floyd McClung, p. 188