praying for my beautiful letdown

RTS #2

Difference between complaining and concern 

  • Have you prayed about the issue? 
  • Have you spoken directly with the person? (If not, then it’s gossip) 
  • Have you considered others around you? AKA, are your words a possible stumbling block for others? 
  • Is it a matter of sin or preference?

Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life - in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing. 

Philippians 2:14-16

# ouch thanks P. Sung sermon notes

Posted 6 months ago
If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures fooling about with drink and sex and ambition, when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mudpies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

— C.S. Lewis

# ouch

Posted 8 months ago 6 notes
Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.

— Susanna Wesley

# words of wisdom ouch

Posted 9 months ago 3 notes