and i wish that my house were cleaner so that i could invite people over more often. 

“If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt.”

- The Devil

Therefore. get through the initial dryness.

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ahahaha this is actually adorable :)

look what i found. :3 

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:29

Here’s the third thing I would tell you: when you read the Bible, pay attention.

here’s why: this thing is a mess. The people in here are a mess. There is this thing that happens where we kind of look at them as varsity and look at us as junior varsity. We kind of look at these guys as the guys who really had it all together, and we don’t have it all together. But if you actually read the Bible, you’re going to be blown away.

Abraham, this guy who had faith and it was counted to him as righteousness, came across a king who thought his wife Sarah was fine, so he was afraid that the king would have him killed. So here’s the conversation that he has with his wife: “It’s obvious that the king loves you. I think he’s going to kill me so he can have you. So here’s the deal: We don’t want that. Why don’t you spend the night with him? Tell everybody you’re just my sister, and I’ll live.”

I just can’t fathom that conversation. Even if that worked out, I have a feeling that I would be hearing about that for the rest of my life. So can we agree that our boy Abraham had some issues? But it was counted to him as righteousness. God called him righteous. A man who whored out his wife to save his own skin? - Righteous. When you read David and the Psalms, “Oh he’s such a godly dude after God’s own heart who slept with another man’s wife and then had him murdered?”

Pay attention at the dysfunctional family dynamics. Pay attention to the sexual perversity. Pay attention to the murder, strife, cunning and all sorts of debaucheries and depravities that are in the Scriptures. Three weeks ago, we watched an apostle forget the gospel. Pay attention, because God works in the mess. If you’re paying attention when you read the Bible, and it’s your turn to walk through the mess, you’ll be confident that God’s working in the mess.

- A Forgetfulness That Leads to Foolishness, Matt Chandler

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“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

(1 Corinthians 6:12 ESV)

What the heck?! that’s awesome.