February 2012
1 post
race, jeremy, and the kingdom:
Today I want to talk about Jeremy Lin. Big surprise right?
But I want to start with a question:
What are you first?
Does it mean more to you to be Christian, or to be Black/Asian/White/Hispanic (insert your race/ethnicity/gender here)?
What are you first?
The identity that you hold most central, or core to your being is often times revealed in a moment of conflict, struggle, or...
January 2012
3 posts
the cost of fruitfulness
One truth that God is highlighting in this year is that of fruitfulness. Get you some!
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“In fact the seed that does not die the word of God says it remains alone. Death to self leads to fruitfulness and self preservation leads to loneliness!” - Pastor Erin Lee
I’m reminded of Jesus’ words in John 15:13, when he says, “Greater love has no one than this, that...
receive it, sucka!
Catch this!
========= 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. Verse 38 is a very popular and well-known verse, but I want to focus on verse 39 - “Now this he...
Life in the Spirit
It’s good to be back on Tumblr! I haven’t written anything in awhile - but I hope that these next posts will bless you! Over the past few weeks I’ve been preparing to go to Thailand with my church, New Philadelphia (you can support me here —> Support Thailand), and each day I’ve been sharing reflections from the book of John. God has been revealing some deep...
October 2011
4 posts
Dating, Relating, and Fornicating →
A great article on the history of dating by Mark Driscoll. Great insight on how the practice of dating started in America, the roots of the current situation that we are in - in regards to sexuality and promiscuity, as well as his advice on what to do to curb it.
“That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only...”
– Thomas Paine
Life of a G-Baby: “…though He was a Son, yet He... →
g-baby:
“…though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” - Hebrews 5:8
I think it is really interesting that Jesus learned obedience. If He is our example, then we are going to learn obedience by the things we suffer too.
One of the thoughts that the Lord has…
Oh my! Mike Pham with such deep and convicting revelation! Love you and so proud of you bro!
September 2011
4 posts
The Stewardship of Sons (Itaewon) →
a sermon i preached this past weekend at new philly:
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Sunday Service (Itaewon Campus 4pm) Speaker: Marcus Corpening Passage: 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 Duration: 00:48:25
New Philadelphia Church …
Jesus lived from the pleasure of the Father, towards the pleasure of the Father, but never for the pleasure of the Father.
True sonship is first birthed from the realization that you are loved by God regardless of what you do, but it doesn’t stay there. Rather, it is brought to maturity when you also take on the responsibility and desire to live in a way that will please God.
You don’t yearn and...
August 2011
7 posts
When we are transitioning into the Promised Land, it’s so easy for us to look back. We begin to think that our Egypt was better than His land of promise to come. But I assure you, this wilderness is but for a moment, and it is only preparing us for a land of milk and honey, of prosperity!
is it worth it?
Are you willing to die that a generation might live?
Are you willing to put your hopes and dreams on the shelf, that God’s hopes and dreams for a generation of young people might be realized?
It’s the things in life that are worth dying for that are the only things worth living for.
We live in an age that is so driven by instant and personal gratification. We read self-help books,...
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of...”
– Helen Keller
sex, debt, and money
There has to be more light shown on this issue - because the truth is, it’s not just happening in some far off country - but many of the young women we’ve attended school with (and are in our colleges today) have fallen prey.
“To Clarify. 1. If you get PAID for sex it’s called PROSTITUTION. 2. If you PAY for sex it’s call SOLICITATION. 3. If you systematically TAKE...
“Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
July 2011
7 posts
hitting the mark -
If sin is best defined as “missing the mark”, then confidence is something that prevents one from missing the mark. If you have full confidence that you are made alive in the Spirit, then that enables you to have the confidence necessary to walk by the Spirit. It is only the fully saved who can be fully sanctified - only the fully alive that can fully rise - God isn’t in the...
June 2011
10 posts
intimacy, order, freedom
Intimacy is cultivated in the balance, or better yet, the interconnectedness of order and freedom.
Intimacy becomes lawlessness without order, yet intimacy will just as easily become legalism without freedom. Both are unbelievably damaging to both the self and to our relationships with other selves. That is why it is important that we learn how to manage the dance between order and freedom, both...
“The deepest, most profound place of intimacy is rest - because rest signifies...”
– Andy Byrd
What up brothers and sisters,
I know it’s been awhile since I’ve put up a respectable post, but no worries - with exams and everything things have been hectic! but I’ll be posting up some new things soon, especially somenew revelations regarding intimacy, music, and what God is doing with the youth of the world! Come on somebody
M
flyerthanangels.tumblr.com
May 2011
3 posts
“You see why you have not a revival. It is only because you do not want one.”
– Charles Finney
osama
Such a wise word on current events:
Mourning the Death of Osama Bin Laden
May 3, 2011
Joshua Tenney, Park Community Church
In response to Osama Bin Laden’s death, Pastor Jackson Crum tweeted:
Osama, a criminal, was caught, but that doesn’t mean I celebrate his death. Shouldn’t I mourn over a life lived apart from the God of the Bible? -@jaxnc
This is a good question for followers of Christ...
April 2011
12 posts
So many of us in the body of Christ are crying out for more of God. “More, more, MORE, God” - while we live our lives half-interested, turning away from the things on His heart, and mixing with the world.
And in the middle of all that, I just hear the Spirit of the Lord saying, “That’s not how this thing works, beloved. I’ve already given you my All. Your...
pruning and intimacy
From my journal yesterday (4/22):
“Pruning is not a sign of God’s anger, but rather a sign of God’s favor. He’s treating me as a son, and calling me into a deeper place - to abide in Him.
Pruning is really Jesus’ way in John 15 of saying that the Father is making me more holy - by removing the things from my self - and holiness is simply a call to deeper intimacy....
Too many people allow for their temperament or personality to speak to their identity. They allow their temperament to define (or redefine) who they are. However, a temperament is just an expression which flows out a particular aspect of who you are. It is not who you are. So many believers allow their momentary expressions to define themselves, and so when they are no longer...
“I have had people over the years who come to me, and they said that they saw that sign on the wall for twenty-four-hour prayer in the spirit of the tabernacle of David. We had that sign for nearly sixteen years. People would say, “What is that?”
And for ten or fifteen years, I would say, “I really do not know. Twenty-four-hour prayer. It is just what it says it is.”
They would say, “What...
After taking a shower this morning and heading into the living room I grabbed my laptop and started walking. No more than two or three seconds towards the living room I realized I left my Bible in my bedroom. “No worries,” I thought - my concentration solely on not letting my MacBook fall to the ground and crash into a gazillion pieces.
But all of a sudden I just heard the Spirit of...
The prodigal son wanted his inheritance without submission. The older son was in submission ignorant of his inheritance. However the father wanted the sons to have both a submitted heart and the wealth of an heir. Claiming your inheritance without submission is rebellion. Being in submission ignorant of your inheritance is religion. But sons are different - we submit because we’re heirs,...
hidden..
I can only die to self when I trust Him for life.
For so long I’ve understood Christianity to be one where I stay alive and I hide Christ in me. But true Christianity is exactly the opposite, one of death - dying to self, where instead my life is hidden in Christ.
I’ve had this longing desire, desperation for more of the glory of God - to see His goodness manifest on my life and the...