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this is so true. sometimes all of us act like fishes trying to climb trees. the point is that you are a part of our world for a reason, and you will figure out what that reason is. just keep trying. <3
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Dad: “What’s ‘the Vampire Diaries’?”
Ty: “I’ve heard it’s more sappy than Twilight.”
Dad: “More sappy than Twilight?! That’s gotta be bad… Let’s put it on the queue!”
- November 23
- , 2011
YES.
I feel like this must have been something that somebody’s mom used to tell them. lol.
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Come and make my heart Your home. Come and be everything I am and all I know. Search me through and through till me heart becomes a home for You.
“My Heart, Your Home” by Watermark
“To be honest, this question grieves me because I feel that it represents a much bigger issue than simply a couple SF tunes. In true Socratic form, let me ask you a few questions: Does Lewis or Tolkien mention Christ in any of their fictional series? Are Bach’s sonata’s Christian? What is more Christ-like, feeding the poor, making furniture, cleaning bathrooms, or painting a sunset? There is a schism between the sacred and the secular in all of our modern minds.
The view that a pastor is more ‘Christian’ than a girls volleyball coach is flawed and heretical. The stance that a worship leader is more spiritual than a janitor is condescending and flawed. These different callings and purposes further demonstrate God’s sovereignty.
Many songs are worthy of being written. Switchfoot will write some, Keith Green, Bach, and perhaps yourself have written others. Some of these songs are about redemption, others about the sunrise, others about nothing in particular: written for the simple joy of music.
None of these songs has been born again, and to that end there is no such thing as Christian music. No. Christ didn’t come and die for my songs, he came for me. Yes. My songs are a part of my life. But judging from scripture I can only conclude that our God is much more interested in how I treat the poor and the broken and the hungry than the personal pronouns I use when I sing. I am a believer. Many of these songs talk about this belief. An obligation to say this or do that does not sound like the glorious freedom that Christ died to afford me.
I do have an obligation, however, a debt that cannot be settled by my lyrical decisions. My life will be judged by my obedience, not my ability to confine my lyrics to this box or that.
We all have a different calling; Switchfoot is trying to be obedient to who we are called to be. We’re not trying to be Audio A or U2 or POD or Bach: we’re trying to be Switchfoot. You see, a song that has the words: ‘Jesus Christ’ is no more or less ‘Christian’ than an instrumental piece. (I’ve heard lots of people say Jesus Christ and they weren’t talking about their redeemer.) You see, Jesus didn’t die for any of my tunes. So there is no hierarchy of life or songs or occupation only obedience. We have a call to take up our cross and follow. We can be sure that these roads will be different for all of us. Just as you have one body and every part has a different function, so in Christ we who are many form one body and each of us belongs to all the others. Please be slow to judge ‘brothers’ who have a different calling.”
SO good.
I will not boast in anything; no gifts, no power, no wisdom. But I will boast in Jesus Christ, His death and resurrection.
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Song of Solomon 2:4
- April 2
- , 2011
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
C.S. Lewis (via lil-sparkle)
Trying to remember this. Life is so much better when we show each other grace.
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Someone like you and all you know and how you speak.
…Well, I hope it’s gonna make you notice someone like me.
- September 16
- , 2009
I’ll always wake up so confused each time I have that dream if you. So if you dreamt of me to, does that mean we dreamt the same dream?
Swimming With Dolphins//Pajama Party
- September 15
- , 2009
If it hurts this much, then it must be love.
You Me At Six//Always Attract
- September 14
- , 2009
Summer always feels endless until it suddenly ends… September is the Monday of months.
Jeff Scher, in “Summer Retreat” for New York Times’ The Animated Life blog (via britticisms) (via beautifulordinaire) (via verbadjectivenoun) (via quote-book) (via grayskymorning)
