tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60682402012-01-04T12:32:38.395-08:00My spiritual journey...journal. A Place for me to recount bits of what I am personally learning, being convicted of or encouraged about in unfiltered, probably unedited, raw "bits." Maybe you will want to come too.jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09518759039690100839noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6068240.post-1117572779671474022005-05-31T13:50:00.000-07:002005-05-31T13:52:59.680-07:00

Sarah Boxer has written a very perceptive article that contains excellent spiritual exhortations for anyone with ears to hear. Her first main insight reveals perverted appearance of on-line confession sites. She compares a flasher to this poster of sins. I think she is right about that. Confession can become a sanctified way of revealing in our sin. The “flasher” metaphor captures the mode

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When I took this image a few years ago, I just liked the look of it. Now I feel more and more like I look like it. Not that I think I am merely a broken down old shack. Instead I am aware of the fact that I often want to retreat into the inadequate shelters of my own creation instead of living out loud in the beautiful world that God has created. Within my shack it always becomes winter, but

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Modesto Truck- Saturday, March 19, 2005 Martha, the kids and I were all traveling from Modesto California after visiting Martha’s grandmother (in her mid-nineties, so we see her when we can), having stayed with her Uncle Joe and Aunt Susie. Martha is driving, I am sitting in the passenger seat, and the kids are in the back seat (Aidan is 4 ½ and Hope is 17 months old, each in their car seats

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Journey with Jesus: Be Filled with the Spirit by K.P. Yohannan Gospel for AsiaI have read articles like this having different reactions - positive, ambivilant, and negative. All moodiness aside, I think the K.P. is right here. In my words, if the Holy Spirit were to be taken from the world I should notice a difference in my life (even apart from the dramic way the world outside of me would be

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In The Confessions of St. Augustine (Book II, Chapter 7), Augustine creates a map for Christian’s to follow who wish to avoid the pitfalls of self-righteousness and judgmentalism. First, Augustine begins from the humble position of a pardoned sinner. Second, his understanding of God’s grace and mercy includes the sins that he avoided because of God’s guidance. Methodologically he suggests that

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If you want to see my daughter, check out Happenings. I need to post a newer one, but she is still so cute! More Augustine soon!

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Bread Crumbs From the Incarnation My daughter’s face & the light of the worldMy little baby is being transformed into a big kid! She is talking and walking and WANTING things. She has a will and she uses it. But when I see the glimpses of the woman she is becoming I am excited! She has so much potential. This must be what it is like to have God look at us. To look at a crowd of dirty,

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Confessions of Augustine Bk 1, Ch 1 continued ... Grant me, O Lord, to know and understand whether first to invoke thee or to praise thee; whether first to know thee or call upon thee. But who can invoke thee, knowing thee not? For he who knows thee not may invoke thee as another than thou art. It may be that we should invoke thee in order that we may come to know thee. But "how shall they call

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Confessions of St. AugustineBook 1CHAPTER I1. "Great art thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is thy power, and infinite is thy wisdom."[6] And man desires to praise thee, for he is a part of thy creation; he bears his mortality about with him and carries the evidence of his sin and the proof that thou dost resist the proud. Still he desires to praise thee, this man who is only a small

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The Confessions of St. Augustine: My PrefaceI think I should mention a few things about St. Augustine. Augustine wrote the Confessions from 397-401 A.D., and The Confessions have been VERY influential in every century since they were completed. The Confessions are intimately woven with threads from the Christian Bible. In fact, the Confessions are sometimes characterized as a “hymn of praise

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I will soon start some meditations on Augustine’s Confessions.

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Confessions of a closet PhariseToday I heard a Bible teaching out of Luke 18 and the rich young ruler. This rich young man asked a spiritual question about getting into heaven (check out the contact of the previous verses if you want to know what brought that question up). This young man tips his hand a bit as he addresses Jesus revealing a deep rooted spiritual pride. This young man after all

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