August 2012
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Anonymous asked: Your blog made me realise I'm atheist. Thank you.
My first day at seminary and I’ve already had an in depth conversation on whether or not 16 students could kill a fully grown Silverback Gorilla with nothing but our bare hands. I think I’m going to like it here.
“Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy....”
– John Piper (via martelthechristianrapper)
Still no internet in the new apartment….. :(
uhhhhhhh7 asked: So youre now in my neck of the woods, so to say!
Hey, sorry I’ve been so absent guys, I’m just getting settled in over here in Philadelphia. Updates to come soon!
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Jesus Christ is the prince who came, both...
Anonymous asked: I am so attracted to you. <3 ugh!!!
I feel like the more followers I get, the less they talk to me…… Weird. I miss you guys.
Trying to fix all of your problems through "self...
Man, it’s gunna get real awkward when people that I know hear these poems that I’m writing….
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WatchFor your listening pleasure. The Soil and The Sun.
All those that are justified, God vouchsafes, in and for His only Son Jesus Christ, to make partakers of the grace of adoption, by which they are taken into the number, and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God, have his name put upon them, receive the spirit of adoption, have access to the throne of grace with boldness, are enabled to cry, Abba, Father, are pitied, protected,...
Anonymous asked: Whats your name?
Prone to wander Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Here’s my heart Lord, take and seal it, seal it for thy courts above.
“The Holy Spirit is no Sceptic, and the things He has written in our hearts are...”
– Martin Luther
“Woe to the Christian who doubts the truth of what is commanded him and does not...”
– Martin Luther
Gosh! This poem is soooo hard to write.
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Just changed the name of my blog from “Beauty from Ashes” to …. “The Phoenix”
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I will watch any movie that
A) is directed by Darren Aronofsky
B) is directed by Nicholas Winding Refn
C) is directed by Christopher Nolan
D) Stars Tom Hardy or Ryan Gosling
To elaborate, in 10 days I will be moving from Illinois to Philadelphia to start seminary classes at Westminster Theological Seminary. It’s gunna be an adventure.
10 days until my life DRASTICALLY changes.
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Anonymous asked: Oh, hi. Your future wife here. Marry me? K, k. :)
Anonymous asked: With all the anons you've had - do you think its possible for God to show you your future wife through tumblr?
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I’ve missed the rain….
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Anonymous asked: Do you believe the Bible is 100% accurate and to be taken literally? If not, by what authority do you disagree?
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Jesus didn't turn my life upside down.
He turned it right side up.
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Well, I just took the Westminster Theological...
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Life interrupted.
Here I am at 2:30 in the morning contemplating how nice it would be to have something (or someone) to call my own. How nice it would be to be free from the path that my life is taking right now. How it would be great to just pursue whatever I felt like pursuing at this moment in time. I’m thinking to myself “man wouldn’t that be beautiful, to just course correct and change...
Man, sometimes the hardest thing for me is to...
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