jess. twentysomething, unabashed geek, occasionally a redhead. traveller, grace-receiver, Christ-lover, logophile, dreamer.
sometimes i write things.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
…They would talk about how we are in a battle, and I agreed with them, only they wouldn’t clarify that we were battling poverty and hate and injustice and pride and the powers of darkness. They left us thinking that our war was against liberals and homosexuals. Their teaching would have me believe I was the good person in the world and the liberals were the bad people in the world. Jesus taught that we are all bad and He is good, and He wants to rescue us because there is a war going on and we are hostages in that war. The truth is we are supposed to love the hippies, the liberals, and even the Democrats, and that God wants us to think of them as more important than ourselves. Anything short of this is not true to the teachings of Jesus.
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz (via outofthedesert)
We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.
David Platt (via godmoves)
(Source: togivehimglory)
