March 9, 2012

arianaflorence: Come out to the glade theater saturday night and see my best friends, those know-it-alls & their mighty causes, play their cd release show. Also, check out this sweet poster made by my friend Paul Windle. Change of plans y’all! The show will be in our awesome shed! So if you want to hear some good music and hang out come on over!

arianaflorence:

Come out to the glade theater saturday night and see my best friends, those know-it-alls & their mighty causes, play their cd release show. Also, check out this sweet poster made by my friend Paul Windle.

Change of plans y’all! The show will be in our awesome shed! So if you want to hear some good music and hang out come on over!

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July 8, 2011

My family through Christ

It is so crazy how in 6 short months I have met a group of people that I have grown to love so deeply. As everyone is “growing up” and moving out into the “real world” it makes me sad that I didn’t have a longer period of time in this group, but I know this was God’s will and I have faith that this isn’t the end of our times together. I feel like these changes are bittersweet, I’m sad because I don’t like the idea of not seeing these people everyday let alone every week, month, or year, but I am so happy because I know in our times apart these individuals are going to do amazing things that will bring glory to God. I also am excited to think of the potential for our community still here. People are about to get the opportunity to grow so much and we will have new roles in our community, which is exciting and scary! I’m so full of mixed emotions, but I know that God is so good and everything will work out the way it’s supposed to.

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June 23, 2011

Jesus’s resurrection is the beginning of God’s new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord’s Prayer is about.

N.T. Wright

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June 16, 2011

So,

today I got a phone call from my mother informing me that my father was being admitted to the emergency room for intestinal problems. We still don’t really know what is going on but he is going to have surgery tomorrow morning. I’m driving up to Austin bright and early to be with him before his surgery. Please pray for healing and pray for me to be fully trusting in God’s will because I’m beginning to get a little anxious.

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June 15, 2011

I’ve been an absent mother

to this blog. It’s been quite some time since I last made a post. I think I’ve been kind of overwhelmed with all the spiritual growth I’ve been making, a little too overwhelmed to figure out a way to put it down in words that make sense. I do want to regularly post on here though, so hopefully I will get better at organizing my thoughts because I’d like to get better at sharing them. 

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May 6, 2011

1 Peter 1:8-9

8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, 9 for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

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April 24, 2011

Romans 6:4-11

 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

 5 For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— 7 because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.

 8 Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him. 10 The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.

 11 In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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I am excited to be alive this Easter. I see a movement in the church that is once again looking at the non-violent Jesus with awe and wonder. We are convinced that Christians should be the hardest people in the world to convince that violence is necessary … not the folks beating war drums and pushing for the death penalty. As we look at the cross, we see what perfect love looks like as it stares evil in the face. It says, “Forgive them for they know not what they do.” It is a Gospel of nonviolence.

I realize the non-violence of the Gospel has not always characterized Christianity. Christians have often been the biggest obstacle to God. Forgive us — for blessing bombs, for the crusades and “holy” wars, for creating an apologetic for torture, for holding signs that say “God hates fags”, starting apocalyptic militias, and blowing up abortion clinics. These things are not the Christianity of Christ. If they are Christianity, it is a Christianity that has grown sick, sick beyond recognition. It does not look like Jesus.

But today I saw something different. We remembered a Savior who died from a state-sanctioned execution. We remembered the Jesus who was jailed and tortured with insurrectionists and terrorists and bandits … the Jesus who loved his enemies so much he died for them (for us).

And today we pondered the mystery of resurrection this Easter — when Christ rose from the dead to make a spectacle of death. He laughed at power. He winked at Caesar and the Roman cross from the heavens. And it is his resurrection that gives us the hope that, in the end, life is more powerful than death. Grace does triumph over hatred… In the end love wins.

There is a growing movement of Christians who are convinced that our faith is not just a ticket into heaven and an excuse to ignore the hells of the world around us. There is a movement of Christians who know that our Christianity is not just about going up when we die, but bringing God’s Kingdom down … “on earth as it is in heaven”, as Jesus said. We are not willing to settle for a Christianity that only promises folks life after death when people are asking… “but is there life before death?”

Shane Claiborne, Death Be Not Proud: The Easter Gospel of Non-Violence

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There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began ‘Chocolate eggs and Jesus risen.’ This seems to me, for his age, both admirable poetry and admirable piety. But of course the time will soon come when such a child can no longer effortlessly and spontaneously enjoy that unity. He will become able to distinguish the spiritual from the ritual and festal aspect of Easter; chocolate eggs will no longer seem sacramental. And once he has distinguished he must put one or the other first. If he puts the spiritual first he can still taste something of Easter in the chocolate eggs; if he puts the eggs first they will soon be no more than any other sweetmeat. They will have taken on an independent, and therefore a soon withering, life

C.S. Lewis

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April 21, 2011

John 4:11-12

11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

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