Perfect Freedom- Timothy Keller

Timothy Keller- Perfect Freedom

"When we come to Christ, we come with unbelievably small ambitions we want inner peace. We want a little reorientation, we want a little pick up, we want to feel like our life matters. We want some inspiration. But boy oh boy there’s a lot more to it than that:


'Imagine yourself as a living house yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.  If we let him, He well make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a god or goddess, dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine, a bright stainless mirror which reflects back to God perfectly (though, of course, on a smaller scale) His own boundless power and delight and goodness. The process will be long and in parts very painful; but that is what we are in for. Nothing less.' -C.S. Lewis

Get rid of your low goals. Stop saying, If I become a Christian will I have to stop doing this or that? Will I still be able to do this? Anticipate that you will not be able to anticipate the magnitude of the changes that when they begin to come you’ll be so grateful for but they’re way beyond anything you could ever dare ask or think. Nor when are you getting started is your mind open enough and alive enough and frankly spiritually smart enough to know what it is you need. " -Timothy Keller

That last paragraph put into words what I could not.  Everyday I'm blown away.

Kingdom Come Journey - Receive

This week was really great for me.  I feel like I had a pretty major a-ha moment.  Something I really wanted to let go of that I was able to this week.  God works in some really crazy ways.  You just have to be patient and wait in his timing.

I love this CD.  This week we were to listen to this CD, soak it in, and journal about it. I listened to the CD like 56 times and it's in my car right now.  Here is a link to the CD: Receive CD.

This week's message: Receive | Enter the Kingdom

Kingdom Come Journey- Share the Love

The Kingdom Come journey has begun!  I've been so excited for this to begin, consider my spiritual dry patch over!  I have group with my family on Tuesdays and my small group on Thursdays and I love it!

"Jesus replied, 'The kingdom of God does not come with you careful observation, nor will people say, 'here it is,' or 'there it is' because the kingdom of God is within you."  Luke 17: 20-21

Week one is all about love and putting Christ's love into action.  We defined love as ascribing worth to another person, often at a cost to yourself.  We were given challenge cards and had to complete them through the week.  I had two challenges which were to pay someone a compliment and to write a love letter.  I felt like I paid compliments to people pretty regularly so actually being given that as a challenge really only ended up making me over think giving compliments because then I thought it wasn't genuine and I was only doing it because I had a card that said I should.  If only every challenge card available came that naturally.  

So for my second challenge card I decided to write a letter to my mom.  It's something that I've thought about doing for a really long time.  When I went to New Orleans they had encouraged us to write a letter to someone that encouraged us or helped us get to New Orleans.  I thought about doing it then but never did.  It seems impossible to put on paper what my mom means to me.  How much I appreciate her, but I did my best.  Loved this challenge!

These acts seem really small but imagine if all of us found little ways to bless others everyday, or if we thought of something new we could do to ascribe worth to one person each week.  That sounds a little like God's kingdom on Earth.

Link to message Love | Two Kingdoms

Craft Time!

Success!  Spray paint and things from the dollar store can make something pretty and functional.  Click here for details.

It's coming...

So excited about this church wide journey starting this Sunday at Crossroads.  I've hit a bit of a dry patch spiritually.  Become a bit lazy and I cannot wait to dive into this journey.  Excited to see what it has in store!  More to come...

Back On-line!

I hated using this site on my iPad, but I've refurbished an old crappy laptop to use only for a few things I have to start doing on-line.  Blogging again might just be one of those things I have to start doing again :)