Warren Buffet and John Piper

Below is a slice from the John Piper video I posted a couple weeks ago. Piper is saying in theological terms, thinking of our relationship with God, on the subject of actions, the same thing Warren Buffet said – deep acceptance is vital:
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Sandra MacCracken

If you don’t own her new CD, In Feast or Fallow…well, you should just buy it because it is amazing.

This Is The Life – Part 2

Last night I was doing the dishes. My two year old was eating a banana using it as a microphone attempting to sing and dance to Lady Antebellum’s American Honey. My wife was close behind me and began to giggle.

I thought of Laura Bush’s comment I blogged about last week, “This is the life.”

This Is The Life

I saw Laura Bush in an interview last month. I think she was on Oprah promoting her new autobiography. Here’s what I remember:

She said she was gardening one Texas evening 20 or so years ago. The girls were young, playing nearby. George was stretched out, reading the paper, and she looked around and thought, “This is the life.”

This was before fame and power.

It’s easy to always look forward, thinking “the life” is with the next phase of life. I’m learning that “the life” is now. Afterall, it’s the only one we have.

Justification is a Gift!

I just watched this video by John Piper, some commentary on justification, faith, and love. Rejoice in the gift! These truths makes my heart rejoice:

Happiest Time of Your Life

Yesterday a friend told me he read some article that said that your 30′s are typically the happiest time period of a person’s life. We talked about why that might be true. We talked about marriage and kids and blossoming careers.

I kept thinking about this, as I’m 31 and would agree I’m the happiest I’ve ever been. For me I think it’s that the self-consciousness that used to rule my actions is slowly fading away.

Truth and The Book of Eli

In The Book of Eli Denzel Washington protects the last Bible. People can no longer read. There is a void of culture in society, a void of truth, and there is one overarching theme.

Those who control the truth hold power. People will come for the words, for guidance, for an explanation of their brokenness and where to turn for rescue.

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Mike Tyson

Who knew he was so deep? We already knew about the darkness…

“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent. Do you know what I do sometimes? Put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.” – Mike Tyson

Read the full article over at Mockingbird Blog.

While you’re over there, read pretty much everything else they post. It’s great.

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Faith and The Book of Eli

We watched The Book of Eli last week, the Denzel Washington film where he protects the last Bible on earth. It’s intriguing, worth the rental.

I was curious about the screenwriter for the film, so I googled and got this from the writer:

“Like what’s the point in living day to day and surviving if there isn’t anything beyond that? So knowledge, culture, literature, that’s what I always felt was very important, that at the end of the movie that we felt like it was kind of triumph of not necessarily faith or any belief system but of academia and knowledge and preservation of what makes us who we are.” – Gary Whitta › Continue reading

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Fear God, or Love Him?

It’s easy to begin to fear, growing afraid of sickness, insignificance, or loss of provision.

In places the Bible tells us not to fear, in others it tells us to fear. Paul says to be afraid in Romans 11:20, but he says to never be a slave again to fear in Romans 8:15.

I’ll let smarter men than I explain it:

John Piper: “The solution will, I think, be found in the suggestion that a sober fear of God will motivate us to trust his mercy shown in Christ and this “trembling trust” will then gradually remove the fear that drove us to it as we see more clearly what our Lord has done for us.”

Jonathan Edwards added this two hundred years ago: “God has wisely ordained, that these two opposite principles of love and fear should rise and fall like the two opposite scales of a balance; when one rises the other sinks.”

So, fear of the future is not okay. It’s unbelief.

Fear of God is okay. It’s not wonderful, love and faith are more ideal, but this side of heaven, in our sinfulness, fear of straying will always play a role. Thus taking refuge in Christ is that much more incredible.

“How great is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you, which you bestow in the sight of men on those who take refuge in you.” (Psalm 31:19)

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