fromredtowhite - Tumblr blog

[fromredtowhite]

absolutely beautiful. 

Sarah Sanders uses performance art to list things she was and did in the past in her art piece entitled “I Used To.”

What have you been like before? How has that shaped who you are now? And what will you become in the future?

[fromredtowhite]

hello conviction. 

[fromredtowhite]

[fromredtowhite]

aaaamen. my generation so desperately needs to grasp the concept of the Church!!! we are the body of Christ. 

10 Great Quotes from Francis Chan

We say things like, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” and “Trust in the Lord with all your heart.” Then we live and plan like we don’t believe God even exists. We try to set our lives up so everything will be fine even if God doesn’t come through. But true faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God’s fidelity to His promises.

Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

If life were stable, I’d never need God’s help. Since it’s not, I reach out for Him regularly. I am thankful for the unknowns and that I don’t have control, because it makes me run to God.

We are consumed by safety. Obsessed with it, actually. Now, I’m not saying it is wrong to pray for God’s protection, but I am questioning how we’ve made safety our highest priority. We’ve elevated safety to the neglect of whatever God’s best is, whatever would bring God the most glory, or whatever would accomplish His purposes in our lives and in the world.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe “even if there is no God.” But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way. We have to do things that cost us during our life on earth but will be more than worth it in eternity.

To be brutally honest, it doesn’t really matter what place you find yourself in right now. Your part is to bring Him glory—whether eating a sandwich on a lunch break, drinking coffee at 12:04 a.m. so you can stay awake to study, or watching your four-month-old take a nap. The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His. It is His movie, His world, His gift.

This is the God we serve, the God who knew us before He made us. The God who promises to remain with us and rescue us. The God who loves us and longs for us to love Him back.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

A friend of mine once said that Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly.

It is easy to become disillusioned with the circumstances of our lives compared to others’. But in the presence of God, He gives us a deeper peace and joy that transcends it all.

[fromredtowhite]

"I am fallen, flawed, and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength.”

Adam Young 

[fromredtowhite]

He will never leave. thick & thin.

[fromredtowhite]

"i'm saying yes to You and no to my desires. i'll leave myself behind and follow You. i'll walk the narrow road cause it leads me to You. i'll fall but grace will pick me up again."

Rend Collective Experiment

[fromredtowhite]

"You craft life from our mistakes."

this idea is so beautiful. I love thinking about God being so good that He is always working all things together for our good, even if those things were mistakes, failures, or the result of our disobedience towards Him.

I’ll never get over this idea. the more I think about it the more I’m amazed by it. He is continually moving past what I expect Him to be like. He is so good.

[fromredtowhite]

[fromredtowhite]

[fromredtowhite]

at His feet. Beautiful.

[fromredtowhite]

This song makes me want to dance.

& cry from joy.

& then dance some more!!!!

[fromredtowhite]

[fromredtowhite]

“…Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning” (Psalm 30:5, NKJV) When you wake up each morning, God sends you a special delivery of joy. It’s like it comes knocking at the door of your heart every day. The problem is that some people never answer the door. It’s right there, month after month, year after year saying, “Come on! Let me in! You can be happy! You can cheer up! You can enjoy your life!” The way to answer the door is to get up and choose an attitude of faith and expectancy by declaring that “today is going to be a good day.” When you start the day like that, you are choosing to receive the gift of joy that God sent to you.

Today, make up your mind to answer the door to joy! Get up every morning and say, “Father, thank You for another beautiful day. I’m going to be happy. I’m going to enjoy this day because You are faithful. I’m going to brighten someone else’s life. I am choosing to receive Your gift of joy and passing it on to others because I love You, and I know that I am called for Your purposes!”

[fromredtowhite]

You're Beautiful by Phil Wickham

"You bled

& then You died.

& then You rose again

for me."

[fromredtowhite]

He said, 'Prophesy to the bones. Tell these dry bones to listen to the Word of the Lord. Tell them that I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying to them: I am going to put breath into you & bring you back to life. I will give you sinews and muscles, and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you and bring you back to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.'"

Ezekiel 37:4-6

My favorite part is, "I am going to put breath into you and bring you back to life." 

<3

[fromredtowhite]