logan jones
am.a.teur worshipper of the lover of our souls
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Jesus announced, lived, and inaugurated for history A NEW SOCIAL ORDER based on grace and not on merit. He called it the Reign or [the] Kingdom of God. It is without doubt (Jesus’) most common message and metaphor, so it must be very important.
Maybe we should just call his Kingdom “the final and big picture.”
Join us on the corner of Moss Side and Westwood Avenues tomorrow morning (May 19th) at 9:30 &/or 11am & explore the 3 Dimensions of Faith and experience why we know the One G( )D as Three; aka The Final and Big Picture as ultimately Three in One!
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![rest in peace Dallas Willard. [May 8th 2013] “Spirit is dis-embodied personal power. Beauty is goodness made manifest to the senses. A disciple is anyone whose ultimate goal is to live as Jesus would live if he were in their place.” - D. Willard We love you, Dallas … your influence remains & may we help it gain steam and grow more and more disciples of Jesus the Christ in our days to come. Thank you.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/4df1db49b0e0dd042be11cd288da0855/tumblr_mmk2maHFnl1r56mbjo1_400.png)
rest in peace Dallas Willard. [May 8th 2013]
“Spirit is dis-embodied personal power.
Beauty is goodness made manifest to the senses.
A disciple is anyone whose ultimate goal is to live as Jesus would live if he were in their place.”
- D. Willard
We love you, Dallas … your influence remains & may we help it gain steam and grow more and more disciples of Jesus the Christ in our days to come. Thank you. -
TO LIBERATE G( )D FOR HUMANITY & HUMANITY FOR G( )D
“Jesus enters the temple and drives out the salesmen who “were selling and buying there” (Matthew 21:12), trying to sell worthiness, purity, and access to God (Luke 19:45-46), just as the Catholic Church did later with indulgences and stipends of various sorts. This is the great temptation of all religion. Jesus symbolically dismantles this system by not allowing it to operate in its present form and releasing the animals that were sold for sacrifice (John 2:15-16). The temple of religion (read “church” or “mosque,” too) is henceforth to become personal, relational, embodied in him and other people, and not a physical building (John 2:21).
The precise message of the Raised Up Christ is that God is available everywhere, as his body moved beyond any limits of space and time. For some reason we like to keep God “elsewhere” or “just here,” where we can control God by our theologies, tabernacles, and services. We often tell God whom he can love or not love. Poor God must conform to our moral systems and judgments.
This public demonstration against and inside of the sacred space of the temple is surely the historical action that finally gets Jesus killed. The trouble with declaring one space sacred is that we then imagine other spaces are not! Here he takes on the major detours of false religion, which are any attempt to “buy” God by exclusionary purity and debt codes, and by emphasizing “sacrifices” (which the clergy just happen to control) over basic mercy and compassion (Matthew 9:13).
Jesus really did come to liberate God for humanity and humanity for God.
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G O D P L A Y
Playing is failing—at least failing so many times that we succeed only by the gift of grit and desire that is the real point of all play.
To endure and to grow in desire is why God our mother hides and waits for our fear to rise.
We hide and desperately hope to be found. Our good mother knows when to return quickly when our fear is beyond our capacity to endure the anxiety of her absence. She also knows when her departure is necessary to sustain even when our fear rises beyond the heavens. God knows our frailty and our courage and never confuses one for the other and knows how to comfort and call forth when we would prefer God to simply answer us as we desire.
More than any other purpose, God plays for the victory of union. We seek and hope to be reunited.Dan Allender, sabbath, p90 God Play -
Photo reblogged from The Clearly Dope
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O Sun behind all suns
I give you greeting this new day.
Let all Creation praise you
Let the daylight
And the shadows praise you
Let the fertile earth
And the swelling sea praise you
Let the winds and the rain,
the lighting and the thunder
praise you
Let all that breathes
both female and male, praise you
And I shall praise you.
O God of life
I give you greeting this day.Celtic Prayer from Iona -
Quote reblogged from Adam Reid Wilson
If we want, Christian, to have our heart filled with divine love we must first empty them of the love of this world, its frivilous and sinful customs and then turn our hearts to the one God, our only good and happiness and eternal beatitude.
- Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk
(via adamreidwilson)Yes
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Video reblogged from The Clearly Dope
WORTH SEEING: Dusty room alert. 14-year old Jack Carroll who suffers from cerebral palsy kills his audition on Britain’s Got Talent.
Thanks @CoryLevine via Huff Post Teen
#thisismyfathersworld
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Link reblogged from Page CXVI Blog
In case you missed it, our conversation with Tyler from Relevant is in the most recent Relevant Podcast.
Also appearing on the podcast is Super Bowl MVP Kurt Warner, and we love what he had to say. For example: “A lot of people…come up with an excuse on why they’re not chasing their…
Congrats ‘tifah and crew! Yes.
