Saturday, June 30, 2012

Come Home

I'm still reading LOTR 1 and have finally finished reading Counterfeit Gods by Timothy Keller about a week or so ago. As of three days ago, I am embarking on an A.W. Tozer Journey Part 2 with That Incredible Christian


Sometimes, when I stumble across a song with great lyrics, I like to post it up here and highlight the bits I fell in love with. But the song below, I couldn't cut out any part. Each verse, pre-chorus, chorus and bridge just sank in my heart and echoed in my mind.







"So you've been running,
Searching for something,
But you're looking in a place you don't belong.
It's never too late,
You can't outrun grace.
No, mercy doesn't care what you've done.
So come home   oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh

You can try to fix your broken empire,
And put bricks on a cracked foundation,
But you'd be building castles on the sand.
There's power in the blood of Jesus,
Your Father's screaming just COME HOME,
He's reaching out His hands."

So, enjoy this as much as I did and am at the moment. 
Come home to the Father.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Sculpted Sentences

"The Christian believes that in Christ he has died, yet he is more alive than before and he fully expects to live forever. He walks on earth while seated in heaven and though born on earth he finds that after his conversion he is not at home here. Like the night-hawk, which in the air is the essence of grace and beauty but on the ground is awkward and ugly, so the Christian appears at his best in the heavenly places but does not fit well into the ways of the very society into which he was born.


The Christian soon learns that if he would be victorious as a son of heaven among men on earth he must not follow the common pattern of mankind, but rather the contrary. That he may be safe he puts himself in jeopardy; he loses his life to save it and is in danger of losing it if he attempts to preserve it. He goes down to get up. If he refuses to go down he is already down, but when he starts down he is on his way up.


He is strongest when he is weakest and weakest when he is strong. Though poor he has the power to make others rich, but when he becomes rich his ability to enrich others vanishes. He has most after he has given most away and has least when he possesses most.


He may be and often is highest when he feels lowest and most sinless when he is most conscious of sin. He is wisest when he knows that he knows not and knows least when he has acquired the greatest amount of knowledge. He sometimes does most by doing nothing and goes furthest when standing still. In heaviness he manages to rejoice and keeps his heart glad even in sorrow."


(A.W. Tozer; That Incredible Christian)

Friday, June 8, 2012

Journey Begins.

I have undertaken the massive challenge of reading J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and admittedly, after three separate readings at a necessarily-slow pace, I have just finished the prologue which tells the back-story of Hobbits and Bilbo being in possession of the ring. It almost feels like a milestone reaching Chapter 1 and having this page in front of me definitely sparked some excitement of being led on a journey by Tolkien. 


On a sidenote, I watched Clue (1985) today and it was a great movie! It's a film featuring Tim Curry, the most popular actor I know in the cast, based on the crime/mystery board-game 'Cluedo', by the Parker Brothers. I really did not expect it to be so hilarious and well scripted. Absolutely loved the humour attached with the movie and will probably be on the look out for it when I'm next in JB Hi-Fi to buy a copy of it.