August 2012
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Being a Christian is too easy?
I’ve been hearing here and there that being a Christian seemed too easy. You can screw up and you are still forgiven as long as you pray to God?
You know, the whole “Be still and know that He is God” thing.
Well what those people have to realize is that there wasn’t anything that we did in the beginning to be “accepted” or get “into the loop” to...
July 2012
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June 2012
10 posts
Coming back home
I don’t know if this is for good or for bad: I’m coming back to Texas a month sooner than I had expected. My flight back is planned to be on July 10th.
I’ve been complaining and having an unexpectedly hard time in Korea for various reasons. Nothing seem to work, my mind seemed to never be in peace. I cried more frequently than ever in sorrow and loneliness, I felt helpless and...
To stand firm in my belief
So it turns out that most likely I wont be able to attend a church for two whole months.
Yikes.
One side of my grandparents goes to a catholic church, but I refuse to go there. I’m not saying anything bad about it- it’s just not what I believe. I’m not condemning or judging; again, it’s simply just not what I want to believe, and feel it’s right.
But anyways, two...
in need of You
After the painfully long plane ride and much sickness, I have finally arrived to Korea. What I noticed the moment I got here though wasn’t so much as excitement and joy, but the need for Christ in this country. Everyone is trying to live on their own, making a Godless life the norm, all the while making others the same as themselves.
God please come and stir a change in their hearts…
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Going to Heaven.
So yesterday at church, the youth group had what the senior pastor called “reconfirmation meeting.” The purpose of the meeting was to confirm my salvation and my future in heaven. The first question he asked was if I believed I were saved, and if so, when I came to such a realization. Then he continued to ask if I were to die at that moment, if I were going to heaven or hell. Lastly,...
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He still loves us
My friend told me that she heard a sermon that really changed her mind. The sermon was based off of Joshua, if I remember correctly, and how he had to chase after a prostitute, and still oved her. She said that Joshua, at that point, was able to experience what it’s like to be God, just a little bit. Just like how the prostitute (I need to read this book. I think her name was Rahab?) ran...
original imagination: Are You a Good Christ? →
ginaseoulchoi:
By Francis Chan
I think it’s time we stop asking ourselves the question: “Am I a good Christian?” We live in a time when the term “Christian” has been so diluted that millions of immoral but nice people genuinely consider themselves “good Christians.” We have reduced the idea of a good…
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Away with fear!
Jesus,
I’ve been really struggling with fear of so many things, even petty ones.
But now, I will commit myself to Your true promises and rid of my fear for things that can not harm me.
“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.” ~Matthew 10:28
“So do not fear, for I am...
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Wish to be Your bond slave
Today on the radio, I heard about being a servant to God.
Being a servant to God by choice. From love.
Not serving him out of duty, not because I’m forced, but out of love.
From the radio I heard that, during the old testament, when slaves said, “I love you master, and I serve you out of love, not out of duty, not because I’m forced, but out of love, and I will serve you for...
May 2012
7 posts
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Tick... Tock...
Tomorrow is my long-awaited high school graduation.
Quite honestly, I still don’t feel like it’s already tomorrow that I’ll be wearing that bright-red cap and gown, walk down the aisle, get my diploma, pose for my picture, and leave the UT Arlington hall to never return to my well-attached CHHS ever again as its student. It all just seems so surreal.
I’m not trying to...
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"Unique Sweet Light"
Just a moment ago, my sister in Christ came to visit and prayed for me, and I couldn’t have been any happier - I just wish I were able to show that more - especially because my mind has been in jumbles the last couple weeks.
You know, being a senior this close to graduation can really mess with your head. Preparing to leave for college, but before that a trip to Korea alone, not to mention...
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What prayer was. What prayer is.
I heard on the radio today something that really changed my view.
Prayer is not a last chance, but a first choice. And in that prayer, don’t bargain with God to make you feel better. Throughout everything, don’t panic, but pray. Pray continually.
90.9 KCBI radio station
After I heard that, I had top stop driving and ponder…
Yeah, wasn’t prayer supposed to be the my...
What's fear if I have You on my side?
There’s really nothing in this world that anyone can completely control. No one can even choose when to be born, or when to die. We all start and end our lives in complete helplessness.
Perhaps that’s why we struggle for more control from the moment we’re born till we die.
Perhaps.
But what comes with a desire for more control is fear. Fear for what you can’t control,...
“‘If you can’?” said Jesus. “Everything is possible for one who believes.”
– Mark 9:23 