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Name: Anna
Country: United States
State: Maryland
Metro: Howard County
Birthday: 8/9/1986
Gender: Female
Interests: I love kids, music, switchfoot is the bomb, i like to have fun, be crazy, hang out with people, watch movies, read the bible....
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Member Since:
10/15/2004
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| "What's your definition of a Christian? Is it broad enough to encompass the drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and broken people of the world? Jesus said that he came to heal the sick. Drug addicts are messed up just the same as liars are messed up, just the same as all humans are mess up. We all need Jesus. We all struggle with personal ways in which sin plays itself out in our lives.
What's worse? To not do dope or to not love your brother? Why do we kick drug users of out of the church while quietly ignoring those who aren't dealing with other, equally destructive sins? Why do we reject the living, self-sacrificing, giving, encouraging, Jesus-pursuing drug addict but recruit the clean, self-interested, gossiping, loveless churchgoer?
Which one do you suppose Jesus would rather share a burrito with under a bridge?"
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| Sing to me a prayer of hope and strength.
I will sing to you
As if my chest is glass.
Sing to me, please sing to me
Always through these times, And we'll begin again.
happy valentines day!!! <3 | | |
| we put so much into our desires...and i know for me they continually fall short. but i look back and im so grateful for those dissappointments. i dont think i would have been ready for those desires to be fulfilled because I would have put them first in my life. God continues to allow life to let me down, so that I can only know fulfillment in Him...and you know, i don't mind that too much. "you are the one who makes me one of a kind, you keep me searching for love, you tell me you'll never love me less than most anyone could. i know your love is sufficient for me, but i keep on holding on to these things. i know your love is sufficienct for me. Jesus show me how to be free, how to let go of these things that keep me from getting closer to You." -the bridge band | | |
| "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lboers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobidient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, wihtout love, unforigiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--having a form of godliness but denying it power. Have nothing to do with them" -2 Timothy 3:1-5 That phrase...having a form of godliness but denying its power really struck me in this passage. Some people know God but don't know the power that they possess. Its like going into a battle and not realizing that its already been won. They dont use the tools that they have been given.
And I look at these Christians who are just living life no differntly than everyone else and I am baffled. How could you do that if you know God? dont you just awnt to go out there and completly give your life for Him? Win nations over for Him? Know Him more and more each day? Complacency in Christians is mind blowing, yet we so easily fall into such a trap. | | |
| i think my mind is trying to understand and at the same time realizing that it never will. | | |
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