...when we are faithless, God is faithful.
the impact of those words just hit me head-on.
think on it.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
so many wonderful moments that deserve to be written down:
-- second to God's sovereign grace o'er sin abounding, my life's been so full of BACON this last few weeks:
-per capita, i get three or four bacon-related texts or pictures from people i haven't talked to in a few months.
--rickster bought me a BACON AIR-FRESHENER/aka "man candle" ;) it's very strong & my clothes now smell deliciously butcher-shop scented. . .
--bacon flavored dental floss from caroline!
--sonja's knitting me something similar to what's pictured.
& basically, I'm so grateful Christ has brought in the new Kingdom that frees His people to eat PIG!
Two candlelight services last night & the brightness of the city on a hill that God has built for His glory...
then presents this morn were just incredible- with the two new husbands in & so much laughter &
PILLOW PETS.
Most of all, it's the knitted-togetherness in Christ.
Praise Him, praise Him...
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
I LOOOOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!
the title says most of it! TWO MORE DAYS!!!
(riveting post, i know ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO7RruPSKvw&feature=BF&list=QL&index=26
have a listen for more proof of mankind's total depravity....*
*disclaimer: i'm kidding. kind of.
also, i'm wearing the reindeer antlers to protect myself from the zombie elves who might wanna eat my braiiinz!!!!
Monday, December 20, 2010
[no victory, no sting]
1 Corinthians 15:6
[The last enemy to be destroyed is death]
Jesus was the only One ever truly born a King.
& The manger leading the cross leading to His return...mm it's amazing. Rejoice in Christ, all of my brothers & sisters redeemed from depravity!
(you too, Mr. depraved)
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
The house You're building/hey,reader, you're probably in this post!!!! (which means you should read it :P)
This song is wonderful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFUBaeQbNk&feature=BF&list=QL&index=20
(thanks bethany for the introduction)
So.
Yesterday at missions prayer Bethany came in & a bit into the few minutes we talk before praying, she announced:
"I have a confession to make. I read your blog."
Me: "Wow. Really? What d'you think of it?"
Bethany: "It's good. Hey Ricki, do you know you're on Emma's blog?"
Ricki: "I am?"
Me: "uhh..."
(Sonja walks in)
Bethany: "Sonja, you're on it too!"
(Josiah enters)
"Hey, so are you! Oh, and Zac, you are too..."
[[Katie probably asked if she was, & hasn't been-- YET, so-- Katie Albright, I LOVE YOU. You are so so wonderful.]]
Me: "You're making it sound so much creepier than just a list of people I'm thankful God's put in my life . . ."
Then later on when we were writing prayer requests on the board & just having a phenomenal time of it, and something funny (rats can't remember) happened, Ricki burst out: "You should put this on your blog!"
Henceforetowith (yeh that's a word NOW) here I am, blogging about all of you.
So if you get around to reading this, know that I love you all. & I thank my God every time I remember you.
Gonna steal Paul's words to express it:
" I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God."
Phillippians 1:3-11
Also, another thing we covered over dinner after MP last night is that I REALLY REALLY wish that I had been born in the Puritan era (reading & praying through valley of vision only makes the wish stronger)...Pilgrim's a great last name, but Puritan would be better. Mr. Depraved, name changes only cost a couple hundred bucks...could we possibly? - Please pray about it ;)
Yes, we are hideous without Christ, but in Him we are truly lovely & pure & perfect.
Mm. Press on. I love you all with more than mere sentiment, because of the Father, Son, & Spirit. All glory to them.
-ms. (on my own) depraved/ ms. (in Christ) redeemed & lovely
p.s. if you aren't directly in this post & really feel as if you were misled by the title, you can win a chance at achieving world fame by having me ghost write your autobiography or biography of your exciting life (for a fee of trident layers & a few new chuck norris jokes ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFUBaeQbNk&feature=BF&list=QL&index=20
(thanks bethany for the introduction)
So.
Yesterday at missions prayer Bethany came in & a bit into the few minutes we talk before praying, she announced:
"I have a confession to make. I read your blog."
Me: "Wow. Really? What d'you think of it?"
Bethany: "It's good. Hey Ricki, do you know you're on Emma's blog?"
Ricki: "I am?"
Me: "uhh..."
(Sonja walks in)
Bethany: "Sonja, you're on it too!"
(Josiah enters)
"Hey, so are you! Oh, and Zac, you are too..."
[[Katie probably asked if she was, & hasn't been-- YET, so-- Katie Albright, I LOVE YOU. You are so so wonderful.]]
Me: "You're making it sound so much creepier than just a list of people I'm thankful God's put in my life . . ."
Then later on when we were writing prayer requests on the board & just having a phenomenal time of it, and something funny (rats can't remember) happened, Ricki burst out: "You should put this on your blog!"
Henceforetowith (yeh that's a word NOW) here I am, blogging about all of you.
So if you get around to reading this, know that I love you all. & I thank my God every time I remember you.
Gonna steal Paul's words to express it:
" I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God."
Phillippians 1:3-11
Also, another thing we covered over dinner after MP last night is that I REALLY REALLY wish that I had been born in the Puritan era (reading & praying through valley of vision only makes the wish stronger)...Pilgrim's a great last name, but Puritan would be better. Mr. Depraved, name changes only cost a couple hundred bucks...could we possibly? - Please pray about it ;)
Yes, we are hideous without Christ, but in Him we are truly lovely & pure & perfect.
Mm. Press on. I love you all with more than mere sentiment, because of the Father, Son, & Spirit. All glory to them.
-ms. (on my own) depraved/ ms. (in Christ) redeemed & lovely
p.s. if you aren't directly in this post & really feel as if you were misled by the title, you can win a chance at achieving world fame by having me ghost write your autobiography or biography of your exciting life (for a fee of trident layers & a few new chuck norris jokes ;)
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
[all the small things]/"hideous without Christ"
SWEET MERCIFUL BISCUITS.
Where to start about the past few weeks?
Went home for Thanksgiving. One of the best reformed moments happened during dinner on Thursday - as everyone went around saying what we're thankful for, I said: "I'm so thankful that I'm elect."
Earned me some odd stares & eyebrow raises, plus some "Only here can you say that freely- imagine if you said that with all the extended family around, they'd be pretty weirded out..."
-For which I'm also very grateful, that I have free speech in America & in my house :)
Also good moments at home: catching a catfish out kayaking Mosquito Lagoon with Dad :) ...fed a numerous amount of skeeters there too...
Skipping forward to this Monday, a ruther embarrassing moment. Was walking through the bookstore parking lot with my new friend Austin, and had just accidentally said a word I've been trying not to say, then we were talking about James 3:
"[N]o human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."
I was emphatically quoting it & not watching where I was going so I ran straight into someone's side mirror on their ghetto car. It must've been loose, 'cause it fell off...for a full 30 seconds we just stood there staring at it, while people walking by snickered wickedly.
I now feel as if I know (if only very slightly) what it'd feel like to break off a chunk of a precious Greek statue. [how can i say? it feels as if your eyeballs falling into your esophagus & your toes are instinctively curling in your boots from horror.]
Left a note- they ain't called me yet.
This week began the 24/7 prayer on our hall, our sister & bro dorms. Hit the prayer room today & had the hardest time concentrating. SPIRIT EMPOWER ME. I am so WEAK.
& Yesterday was an old self day :/ Ricki & I had lunch & she is SUCH AN ENCOURAGEMENT! - She's my Jonathan.
Then through Christ, Java reminded me of God's kindness that is intended to lead us to repentance, & of how it is only Christ who saves us from our mad-depravity:
"Praise God so much! Because I am so hideous without Him. & No offense, but you would be too."
(offense taken by my sin nature that hates how true that is, but the Spirit won my mind back to see how lovely the beauty of grace IS)
Very very grateful for the people God's given me this past year/semester:
Sonja Tucker
Jessica B
Josiah Wegner
Rickster
Ben
Zac Canfield
Katie
Kenny
Emily
Victoria
the fam!!! Caroline, Cate, Han, Abs, Mum, Dad, Jerms, Pablo
24 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz1Mzb-wD-U <--quoting this constantly!
"if we open all the boxes straightaway now...."
"the horse with twigs on his head!"
& waterdeep's pandora brings up incredible worship music.
All the time now I just want to share the richness of life with every Christian alive, but in Christ they have it whether we share it together over dinner or not, so I can rejoice in the Lord always & so can they!
- still a battle, but this is a fantasmic time of refreshing, now.
Christmas lights up in our postage-stamp-sized dorm room, sharpening a candy cane to a dagger-point right now :)
Much much affection in Christ,
ms. depraved
p.s. Thinking about writing a musical about a Liberty student who works in the Rot & has a horrible, awful, no-good day then gets fed up with working there & steals everyone's Flames passes (which you have to have to get into the Rot) so no one can come anymore. then he can have a song sequence dancing through the empty rot & eating all the cake :P
then there can be a scene with students in their dorms eating gruel & weeping from hunger.
& then go to campus church or something, get convicted, have a Scrooge/Grinch-esque change of heart, then return everyone's Flames passes & make gourmet meals for everyone.
silly idea, but it's fun to think those up :)
Where to start about the past few weeks?
Went home for Thanksgiving. One of the best reformed moments happened during dinner on Thursday - as everyone went around saying what we're thankful for, I said: "I'm so thankful that I'm elect."
Earned me some odd stares & eyebrow raises, plus some "Only here can you say that freely- imagine if you said that with all the extended family around, they'd be pretty weirded out..."
-For which I'm also very grateful, that I have free speech in America & in my house :)
Also good moments at home: catching a catfish out kayaking Mosquito Lagoon with Dad :) ...fed a numerous amount of skeeters there too...
Skipping forward to this Monday, a ruther embarrassing moment. Was walking through the bookstore parking lot with my new friend Austin, and had just accidentally said a word I've been trying not to say, then we were talking about James 3:
"[N]o human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. 9With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. 10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. 11Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? 12Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."
I was emphatically quoting it & not watching where I was going so I ran straight into someone's side mirror on their ghetto car. It must've been loose, 'cause it fell off...for a full 30 seconds we just stood there staring at it, while people walking by snickered wickedly.
I now feel as if I know (if only very slightly) what it'd feel like to break off a chunk of a precious Greek statue. [how can i say? it feels as if your eyeballs falling into your esophagus & your toes are instinctively curling in your boots from horror.]
Left a note- they ain't called me yet.
This week began the 24/7 prayer on our hall, our sister & bro dorms. Hit the prayer room today & had the hardest time concentrating. SPIRIT EMPOWER ME. I am so WEAK.
& Yesterday was an old self day :/ Ricki & I had lunch & she is SUCH AN ENCOURAGEMENT! - She's my Jonathan.
Then through Christ, Java reminded me of God's kindness that is intended to lead us to repentance, & of how it is only Christ who saves us from our mad-depravity:
"Praise God so much! Because I am so hideous without Him. & No offense, but you would be too."
(offense taken by my sin nature that hates how true that is, but the Spirit won my mind back to see how lovely the beauty of grace IS)
Very very grateful for the people God's given me this past year/semester:
Sonja Tucker
Jessica B
Josiah Wegner
Rickster
Ben
Zac Canfield
Katie
Kenny
Emily
Victoria
the fam!!! Caroline, Cate, Han, Abs, Mum, Dad, Jerms, Pablo
24 DAYS 'TIL CHRISTMAS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz1Mzb-wD-U <--quoting this constantly!
"if we open all the boxes straightaway now...."
"the horse with twigs on his head!"
& waterdeep's pandora brings up incredible worship music.
All the time now I just want to share the richness of life with every Christian alive, but in Christ they have it whether we share it together over dinner or not, so I can rejoice in the Lord always & so can they!
- still a battle, but this is a fantasmic time of refreshing, now.
Christmas lights up in our postage-stamp-sized dorm room, sharpening a candy cane to a dagger-point right now :)
Much much affection in Christ,
ms. depraved
p.s. Thinking about writing a musical about a Liberty student who works in the Rot & has a horrible, awful, no-good day then gets fed up with working there & steals everyone's Flames passes (which you have to have to get into the Rot) so no one can come anymore. then he can have a song sequence dancing through the empty rot & eating all the cake :P
then there can be a scene with students in their dorms eating gruel & weeping from hunger.
& then go to campus church or something, get convicted, have a Scrooge/Grinch-esque change of heart, then return everyone's Flames passes & make gourmet meals for everyone.
silly idea, but it's fun to think those up :)
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