Entries Tagged as ‘Thoughts on God’

December 15, 2008

Right Soteriology – Quote on the Cross

 
  
“The Cross is not the reason God desires us. God’s desire is the reason for the Cross.”
-Ryan Meegan

December 11, 2008

Zion & Babylon by Josh Garrels

Hear the Song
“Oh great mammon of form and function
Careless consumerist consumption
Dangerous dysfunction
Described as expensive taste
I’m a people disgraced
By what I claim I need
And what I want to waste
I take no account for nothing
If it’s not mine
It’s a misappropriation of funds
Protect my ninety percent with my guns
Whose side am I on?
Well who’s winning?
My kingdom’s built with [...]

December 2, 2008

Revenge by Jon Foreman – The Theif on the Cross

I’m the failure
I’m everyone’s fool
And I’m losing my cool at the end
I’m the loser
My number’s come up
I’ve been hung up with thoughts of
Revenge,
Revenge,
Revenge
I watched you
From my terminal view
As you struggled to rise to your end
I laughed hard
At the insults we threw
As the weight of the world found
Revenge
The world hung upside down
I drew first blood
I drew [...]

November 29, 2008

Apple Pie – John Piper Quote

“The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of the triviality we drink in every night. For [...]

November 25, 2008

Theology, Wonder, and Conversion – Quote from John Saward

“Theological mysteries are truth and therefore light for the mind, but the truth is so vast, the light of such intensity, that the mind is dazzled and amazed.  When a man meets a mystery of the faith, he finds not a deficiency but an excess of intelligibility: there is just too much to understand.  Reverence [...]