May
Top Six Reasons Why You Should Buy a White Flag Tee
Here are the top 6 reasons to buy a White Flag Project tee:
SIX → They’re super-high quality and extremely comfortable (printed on American Apparel). These are not gym tees; these are favorite tees.
FIVE → Once we sell out of this style, we can stock our next style of tees, which will be even awesomer, if such a thing is possible.
FOUR → Wearing our brand signifies that giving money to local churches is important to you, since this principal lies at the foundation of our organization.
THREE → They bear a unique logo that exalts submission to Christ as a lifestyle.
TWO → Other Christians may recognize the Chi Rho symbolism, and non-Christians will ask you about it.
ONE → You pay a reasonable price for an awesome tee, and we turn around and send half the amount to your local church!
Put all of these reasons together and you’ve got a beautiful formula for #SoliDeoGloria. So head on over to the store and getcha one!
May
Fake Love, Fake War: Why So Many Men Are Addicted to Internet Porn and Video Games
This is the most important article you’ll read today.
Pornography promises orgasm without intimacy. Video warfare promises adrenaline without danger. The arousal that makes these so attractive is ultimately spiritual to the core.
Satan isn’t a creator but a plagiarist. His power is parasitic, latching on to good impulses and directing them toward his own purpose. God intends a man to feel the wildness of sexuality in the self-giving union with his wife. And a man is meant to, when necessary, fight for his family, his people, for the weak and vulnerable who are being oppressed.
The answer to both addictions is to fight arousal with arousal. Set forth the gospel vision of a Christ who loves his bride and who fights to save her. And then let’s train our young men to follow Christ by learning to love a real woman, sometimes by fighting his own desires and the spirit beings who would eat him up. Let’s teach our men to make love, and to make war … for real.
May
What Does Jesus Do With Sin?
From Jared C. Wilson:
Here are 6 things Jesus does with sin:
1. He Condemns It.
Romans 8:3 – “For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh.”
2. He Carries It.
1 Peter 2:24 – “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
3. He Cancels It.
Colossians 2:13-14 – “And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses, by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross.”
4. He Crucifies It.
1 Peter 3:18 – “For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.”
5. He Casts It Away.
Micah 7:19 – “He will again have compassion on us; he will tread our iniquities underfoot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.”
6. He Chooses to Un-remember It.
Hebrews 8:12 – “For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
This is how Jesus forgives sin: He condemns it, carries it, cancels it, kills it, casts it, and clean forgets it. If we’ll confess it.
1 John 1:9 – “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
May
May
A Fake Rolex
Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter. -Matthew 7:21 (NLT)
Like it or not, we live in a society that rewards superficiality. As far as horizontal relationships are concerned, appearance is what’s important. Someone’s life can be in ruins, but as long as their circle of acquaintances think they’re doing well, then that’s what really matters. As long as their facebook photos show them as happy and successful, they’re good. As if others’ perception is reality.
We’ve been so inundated with this type of thinking our whole lives that it’s hard to snap out of the lull and into reality. Perception is not reality, and it holds no sway with God.
A fake Rolex might impress many people, but to the Jeweler it’s worth nothing.
May
A Spoken Word Piece by Odd Thomas.
