February 2012
1 post
African American History Month
Everyday…everyday you’re not dead in the ground and you wake up in the mornin’, you gonna have to make some decisions. Gotta ask yourself this question; am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools said about me today? You hear me? Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today? Alright?
- Constantine, The Help
A child born to a Black mother in a...
January 2012
7 posts
December 2011
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November 2011
3 posts
“In Hebrews, the gospel is not merely an idea submitted for intellectual consideration; it is a life-embracing demand that summons to action.”
- Thomas G. Long
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (via dorothyhuynh)
What is the glory of God?
This glory can crown man or fill the earth. It is seen within man and in the earth, but it is not of them; it is of God. (http://www.gotquestions.org/glory-of-God.html)
I disagree wholeheartedly with this quote. Stop and look at the...
October 2011
5 posts
http://www.realhopeforhaiti.org/
“When there is a need, fill it…”
I pray that God will provide work for me to become financially self-sufficient in the future and that I will be able to give to brothers and sisters like these soon..
“There are two parts of the RC -
1. Kids 18 months and up. These kids stay an average of 5 to 6 months.
2. Babies 0-17 months. These babies stay for about 18 months –...
September 2011
7 posts
1 tag
Contrast between light and dark imagery: God is...
1) Exodus 10:23 God puts complete darkness over Egypt for three days, but all the sons of Israel had light in their dwellings.
2) 11 (firstborn will die), 12:24-27 Observe this even in the promised land and pass it on to children, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” And the...
Joseph's belief and faith, evidence and fruit
1. Genesis 39:1-6 Potipher sees that the Lord is with Joseph. Potipher’s household is blessed after he makes Joseph overseer.
2. 41:28-41 Pharaoh recognizes that God provides Joseph with the power and ability to interpret his dream.
3. Joseph lives faithfully and righteously as a servant of God despite the wrong done to him and despite the suffering he endures.
a) His brothers...
“Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the...”
– Psalm 1:1-2
August 2011
8 posts
Job 28
1 “Surely there is a mine for silver, And a place where gold is refined.
2 Iron is taken from the earth, And copper is smelted from ore.
3 Man puts an end to darkness, And searches every recess For ore in the darkness and the shadow of death.
4 He breaks open a shaft away from people; In places forgotten by feet They hang far away from men; They swing to and fro.
5 As for the...
Martin Luther King, Jr.
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
We have waited for more than 340 years for our constitutional and God-given rights. The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter. I guess it is easy for those who have never felt the stinging darts of segregation...
Better is a little with the fear of the LORD, Than great treasure with trouble.
The ear that hears the rebukes of life Will abide among the wise. He who disdains instruction despises his own soul, But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding. The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, And before honor is humility.
Proverbs 15:16, 31-33
“It is not your business to succeed, but to do right; when you have done so, the...”
– C.S. Lewis
July 2011
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June 2011
6 posts
What a friend we have in Jesus, All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer! Oh, what peace we often forfeit, Oh, what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged— Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful,...
Proverbs 26:5 - Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.
May 2011
2 posts
“But you are no body. Nor are you soul, which is the life of bodies; for the life...”
– St. Augustine, Confessions
April 2011
5 posts
“Taste this. Is it worth it? They were 20 cents each; I bought 5.”
– my mother [on a fruit that is neither an orange nor a grapefruit]
Observations of an Asian
A few thoughts that I can read over when I move out to entertain myself…
- Your parent(s) cut up fruit and force you to eat it. Uncut fruit (e.g. apple) doesn’t taste the same.
- Your parents tell you to water or feed something every day.
- You take free toothpicks whenever you see them.. even if you don’t need it.
- At night, while you’re in houses of...
Proverbs 16
1The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
3Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.
4The LORD hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.
5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination...
February 2011
4 posts
“I’m alone, but I ain’t lonely… for a dreamer, night’s...”
– Newsies
“Faith is a bird that feels dawn breaking and sings while it is still dark.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
RE: [smile]
:)
January 2011
6 posts
