community.

The Gospel of Jesus is a remedy for life alone because it creates a community of people.

This community exists because of the Gospel and to demonstrate the Gospel.

This community exists because the Gospel is true.
This community demonstrates the Gospel is true by:
     Proclamation. (1 Peter 2:9)
     Lifestyle. (1 Peter 2:11-12)
     Love for each other. (1 Peter 2:1)
     Cooperation with each other. (1 Corinthians 12:12)

If you follow Jesus, you join a bunch of other people.

Follow Jesus well.


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oh darling, let's be adventurers.

My fiancé recorded her account of the day I asked her to marry me.

You should read it here.

It is eloquent. Poetic. Beautiful.

This will be the best adventure of my life!



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humility. again.

"Preaching the gospel to myself each day mounts a powerful assault against my pride and serves to establish humility in its place. Nothing suffocates my pride more than daily reminders regarding the glory of my God, the gravity of my sins, and the crucifixion of God's own Son in my place...Pride wilts in the atmosphere of the gospel." - Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer

1. Buy A Gospel Primer. Now.
2. Preach the Gospel to yourself. Every Day.
3. Assassinate pride. Immediately.
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humility.

"Humility - Honestly assessing ourselves in light of God's holiness and our sinfulness." - C.J. Mahaney

One of the places I frequently visit, to teach myself to be humble is Isaiah 6:1-5, where I see one of the most clear pictures of God's holiness and my sinfulness.

"In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his fee, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: "Holy, Holy, Holy is the LORD of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!" And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: "Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts!" - Isaiah 6:1-5

Woe is me!

I do not say those words nearly enough.

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a bigger picture.

"The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature."

Ezra Taft Benson

Love the poor, the orphan, the widow, the starving, the broken, the wounded, the neighbor, but not so as to change or influence merely their circumstances and behavior: labor in prayerful love for Christ to change the heart.

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