#Knowing Christ

[dramoor]

“Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride.    Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair.   Knowing Christ gives the balance.”

~Blaise Pascal

(Image via Wal-Mart)

#Knowing God #Knowing our wretchedness #Knowing Christ #balance #rocks #cairn #Blaise Pascal #Lord Jesus #Christian

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

In a world of distractions, Christians must fix their focus on knowing Christ and His Word. Today, Sinclair Ferguson introduces his new daily devotional podcast from Ligonier Ministries to help God’s people think clearly and live faithfully for the Lord.

#Renewing Your Mind #Sinclair Ferguson #Things Unseen #knowing Christ #Word of God #renewingyourmind.org

[biblebloodhound]

Thanksgiving Day (Psalm 100)

Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise.

By Rochelle Blumenfeld Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth.    Serve the Lord with gladness;    come into his presence with singing. Know that the Lord is God.    It is he who made us, and we are his;    we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving    and his courts with praise.    Give thanks to him; bless his name. For the Lord is good;    his…

View On WordPress

#faithfulness #give thanks #god&039;s faithfulness #god&039;s steadfast love #god&039;s love #knowing christ #knowing god #knowledge of god #praise #praise the lord #psalm 100 #psalms #psalms of praise #psalms of thanksgiving #spiritual life #thankful #thankfulness #thanking god #thanksgiving #thanksgiving day #worship

[igate777]

Follow me, Jesus told Mathew. Mathew 9:9

Often when we give our life to Jesus, we easily give into some form of premature calling to do something for the Lord, and there’s nothing wrong with having a desire for service. In fact, that is what everyone should aspire to. But the most important aspect of our desire to serve the Lord is to first learn to follow Christ.

Following opens us up to various spiritual realities that expand the beauty, majesty, and sovereignty of our Lord.

The message and life nature of Christ is not a secondary affair in the life of a believer; it is the chief point of spiritual maturity.

#following Christ #christology #wisdom speak #spiritual priority #the ways of Christ #Devotion #knowing Christ #Bible Study #Spiritual maturity #Christ culture #Church #ecclesia #Ekklesia #pursuing Christ

[fox-mulder-gets-pegged]

I just wanna say bc I KNOW you're somewhere on tumblr, to the teenage girl who attended Take Your Kid To Work Day at an office building in Ontario, Canada circa 2013 and had a conversation with a middle aged woman in which you showed her your Black Veil Brides fanart and fanfics and ship content and told her about different fanfic tropes including a/b/o verse bc she happened to know who Panic! at The Disco and Fallout Boy were and thus you felt the need to show her your bandblr ship art, that was my fucking mother and I had to clarify all that to her including looking my mother in the eye and trying to explain a/b/o verse without sounding like a lunatic.

It's been 10 years and I still regularly sent evil energies in your direction. Since you'd be probably two years younger than me and thus legally an adult now, please know if this post reaches you it's on sight.

#she cornered me in the car and asked what shipping was and i almost had a fucking heart attack #imagine being like 16 years old and habing to explain knotting to your mother #random emo music girl I'm glad you had fun talking about your Band Guys to my mother #bc i also attended take your kid to work day at that office and i know how boring it was #but christ alive why did you have to fuck me like that? #anyways i hope this post reaches you so at the very least you know i think about you at least once a week #this has been weighing on me for ten years #im almost tempted to blaze this post

[segretecose]

i don't think gym muscle counts. i think you should put on muscle from ploughing the field. rowing a boat. spending your days at the loom weaving intricate carpets. things of that nature

#they'll put abs on anyone and say here now they're attractive #brother in christ you juiced that man within an inch of his life and locked him up in a gym #that's not hot that's sad. you know what's hot? uneven tan

[wolfythewitch]

you of little faith, why did you doubt?

#if you've ever watched The Chosen know that the way he says the line in that show guts me. it was so gentle and aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #art #digital painting #jesus christ #simon peter #wolfy religious tedtalks #bible

[possamble]

oh they super understood the assignment this time holy shit

#dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #falin touden #i know this is supposed to be super scary and it IS #but also oooh ma'am are you free on thursday jesus christ #i can't get enough of seeing her angry and violent and not at all pleasant #perhaps this is the first time that face has ever made those expressions #dungeon meshi episode 17 spoilers

[huachengsromcom]

People call Heaven Official’s Blessing / TGCF a slow burn but Hua Cheng is literally courting Xie Lian like they are DATING. Slow burn who??? They’re sleeping next to each other on straw mats and Xie Lian’s offering to cook him dinner and they’re bantering across THE HOME THEY SHARE like a bunch of desperate hussys

San Lang LEAVES XL WITH A KEEPSAKE OF THEIR TIME TOGETHER SLOW BURN WHOMST

They have A DATE in HC’s armoury where they HOLD HANDS and XL pets San Lang’s quivering sword I-

Hua Cheng basically throws himself at this man he’s like you want a sword?? All of them ?? You want ALL THE SWORDS?? Fuck it take the whole room THE WHOLE ROOM JUST COME VISIT I WILL CLEAN THEM FOR YOU

Like he isn’t the king of a whole realm with shit to do

And this is just the first half of the first book—again I ask the world SLOW BURN WHOMST

#this is half in jest #but #I know some people don’t count it as “real until they kiss but THIS is honestly so gay of them #it’s in the subtext it’s in everything THAT ISNT a kiss #it’s so queer #Hua Cheng is ALL IN XL is just too innocent to Grasp It #XL is saying “come round to my tiny shack whenever sleep on my mat with me BEST FRIEND I will be your home” and HC is SUFFERING #the armoury scene is favourite of the entire thing #I was like my brother in Christ HAVE YOU NO SHAME #and knew immediately I would love him forever #tgcf #heaven official's blessing #mxtx tgcf #hua cheng #xie lian #hualian #she’s being unhinged again

[salvadorbonaparte]

I have a linguistics degree so I can also claim insanely wrong things. French is just badly pronounced Latvian.

#langblr #Lingblr #Linguistics #I know the headline and title is probably just supposed to be polarising click bait #But jesus christ is it annoying

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

Am I the asshole for getting my best friend killed?

I swear to God, it was an accident.

My (27) BF (34) has a reputation for getting himself out of any jam you can imagine; and at first it was just a fun little thing the friend group noticed: there goes Oily J wiggling his way out of trouble again. but as the meme evolved in the group, it got to the point where we'd loykey started getting him into situations just to see how he'd get out of 'em, and he akept getting out of em. He was having fun with it too same as us. "Oh you guys," he'd say, "getting me into situations again," before laughing it off and getting out of it, so it was enrichment for our shared enclosures, and as time went on, the situations got more intense.

The trouble is, it turns out that putting a man in too many situations eventually gets the police interested. And not local hobsknockers cops either; they was like, proper three-letter FEDs. They put out a bounty on any information pertaining to his capture and everything. It was good money too so I thought, hey why don't I put J in another situation he can wiggle out of like always (and he'd wiggled outta worse before, so I thought this one'd be relatively mild), and at the next boardgame night (cause it was too late to do anything special for this one) we can buy some extra strong booze and get absolutely blitzed while having a giggle about the situation.

Boardgame night, and we were playing some social deduction nonsense or another and he says: "One of you is gonna betray me tonight." and I can't help but think, looking back on it, that he knew. It's stupid, I know he was talking about the game, but the way he said it, it was like he knew. We all felt it, and we had a big round robin round the table taking turns promising that we'd never betray him. And I said it so easily cause I thought it was true. Sure, I was gonna talk to the feds about a bounty; but, I fully expected my big beautiful oily boy to wiggle his way out of the trouble I was 'bout to cause, and that's not a betrayal. I wasn't lying. I didn't think I was lying.

My big beautiful oily boy didn't manage to wiggle his way out of it. They killed him and I got my blood money. He's gone.

He's gone and I'm devastated, crying, mourning. I loved him so much. We all did. And I can't stop thinking that it's my fault: that I'm the reason he's gone. and it is. and the guilt is eating me up inside. and I just need to talk to someone about it. So, I tell the rest of the group what happened in the group chat, hoping they'd understand that I didn't want this. I didn't want the government's blood money. It was supposed the be a prank. some joint enclosure enrichment. He was supposed to wiggle out of it like he always does... did, i mean.

They call me, among worse things, the asshole and kick me from the group chat. And, I know it's my fault he's dead: I know that. If I didn't do what I did, he wouldn't be dead right now. But, I didn't mean it for it to end up this way. He was supposed to be okay, damn it. I loved him. AITA?

What are these acronyms?

#aita #am i the asshole #fandom aita #unreality #i never know how to tag the bible ones #also i don't think this is explicitly jesus christ superstar but for some reason it put me in mind of it #so that's where the extra option is from idk #specifically in my head is one particular production of it that a friend showed me when we were like. 17 #anyway i'm in love with how this one plays with modern language #good enough to post on purpose

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Warning: Don’t Trust in the Flesh

1 So then, my dear family, it comes down to this: celebrate in the Lord! It’s no trouble for me to write the same things to you, and it’s safe for you.

2 Watch out for the dogs! Watch out for the ‘bad works’ people! Watch out for the ‘incision’ party, that is, the mutilators! 3 We are the ‘circumcision’, you see – we who worship God by the spirit, and boast in King Jesus, and refuse to trust in the flesh.

4 Mind you, I’ve got good reason to trust in the flesh. If anyone else thinks they have reason to trust in the flesh, I’ve got more. 5 Circumcised? On the eighth day. Race? Israelite. Tribe? Benjamin. Descent? Hebrew through and through. Torah-observance? A Pharisee. 6 Zealous? I persecuted the church! Official status under the law? Blameless.

Gaining the Messiah

7 Does that sound as though my account was well in credit? Well, maybe; but whatever I had written in on the profit side, I calculated it instead as a loss – because of the Messiah. 8 Yes, I know that’s weird, but there’s more: I calculate everything as a loss, because knowing King Jesus as my Lord is worth far more than everything else put together! In fact, because of the Messiah I’ve suffered the loss of everything, and I now calculate it as trash, so that my profit may be the Messiah, 9 and that I may be discovered in him, not having my own covenant status defined by Torah, but the status which comes through the Messiah’s faithfulness: the covenant status from God which is given to faith. 10 This means knowing him, knowing the power of his resurrection, and knowing the partnership of his sufferings. It means sharing the form and pattern of his death, 11 so that somehow I may arrive at the final resurrection from the dead.

Chasing on to the Finish

12 I’m not implying that I’ve already received ‘resurrection’, or that I’ve already become complete and mature! No; I’m hurrying on, eager to overtake it, because King Jesus has overtaken me. 13 My dear family, I don’t reckon that I have yet overtaken it. But this is my one aim: to forget everything that’s behind, and to strain every nerve to go after what’s ahead. 14 I mean to chase on towards the finishing post, where the prize waiting for me is the upward call of God in King Jesus.

15 Those of us who are mature should think like this! If you think differently about it, God will reveal this to you as well. 16 Only let’s be sure to keep in line with the position we have reached.

Citizens of Heaven

17 So, my dear family, I want you, all together, to watch what I do and copy me. You’ve got us as a pattern of behaviour; pay careful attention to people who follow it.

18 You see, there are several people who behave as enemies of the cross of the Messiah. I told you about them often enough, and now I’m weeping as I say it again. 19 They are on the road to destruction; their stomach is their god, and they find glory in their own shame. All they ever think about is what’s on the earth.

20 We are citizens of heaven, you see, and we’re eagerly waiting for the saviour, the Lord, King Jesus, who is going to come from there. 21 Our present body is a shabby old thing, but he’s going to transform it so that it’s just like his glorious body. And he’s going to do this by the power which makes him able to bring everything into line under his authority. — Philippians 3 | New Testament for Everyone (NTE) The New Testament for Everyone copyright © Nicholas Thomas Wright 2011. Cross References: Psalm 73:25; Ecclesiastes 7:16; Jeremiah 9:23; Jeremiah 33:16; Matthew 5:48; Luke 1:59; Luke 8:18; John 4:23-24; Romans 6:21; Romans 8:29; 1 Corinthians 2:6; 1 Corinthians 4:16; 2 Corinthians 11:13; Philippians 1:27; Philippians 4:4; Colossians 2:18; Colossians 4:2; Hebrews 6:1; Hebrews 11:26; Revelation 20:5; Revelation 22:15

#God #faith #Jesus Christ #rejoice #warning #flesh #Paul's example #righteousness #knowing Christ #citizenship in heaven #pressing toward the goal #Philippians 3 #The Epistle of Philippians #NTE #Holy Bible #New Testament for Everyone

[biblebloodhound]

Christ the King Sunday (Ephesians 1:15-23)

Because of Christ’s resurrection, ascension, and glorification, Christians therefore have a vital and inseparable union with Jesus.  Jesus redeemed us; we belong to God as adopted children. 

The 118 feet high Christ the King statue in Świebodzin, Poland For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him…

View On WordPress

#belonging #Christ #christ jesus #christ the king #christ the king sunday #christ&039;s redemption #christ&039;s authority #christianity #church calendar #church year #dominion of darkness #ephesians #ephesians 1 #god&039;s power #jesus christ #king jesus #knowing christ #lord jesus #pray #prayer #satan #sovereign god #spiritual authority #spiritual power #spiritual warfare #union with christ

[ppeanutz]

wade actually knows about both

#pleas excuse peter's lack of web lines. i forgot about them. #spideypool #spider-man #deadpool #peter parker #wade wilson #marvel #comics #fanart #my art #i know what you are #forgot to mention: NOT MCU SPIDEY CHRIST. PLEASE

[fearlesswriterblog]

Seeking God is the Answer

In Chapter 55 of Isaiah the exiled Jews are encouraged to seek God for nourishment both physically and spirtually. Isaiah 55:1-5 lays out the invitaiton to come. “Come, all you who are thirsty,    come to the waters;and you who have no money,    come, buy and eat!Come, buy wine and milk    without money and without cost.2 Why spend money on what is not bread,    and your labor on what does not…

View On WordPress

#all-sufficient #His ways #knowing Christ #seek God #Seeking

[kalahs-beautiful-realm]

#quotes #christianity #christian faith #seeking God #trust in God #praying #scripture #psalms 27:28 #spiritual growth #faith #knowing Christ