BeyondRelevance.com has posted a video with a funny and eye-opening view of how we do church from an outsider’s perspective. My favorite line? “Java-lujah!“
I just finished ordering 50 illegal Bibles to be sent to Christians in China, thanks to the donations received from our lunch yesterday! Check out BiblesUnbound.com for more information on how you can support this ministry.
Here’s a great resource from LifeWay for parents who could use a guide to help form a Biblical conversation with their teens. Once you sign up, you get two twenty-minute devotionals each week by email. I’ve been getting these in my Inbox for a while now, and the material is really good. It’s interactive (so it isn’t just parents lecturing their kids), and it’s fast, so it meets the needs of a busy family…plus, it’s free!
The website has links to view the last 6 weeks of materials, so you can know if you want to sign up. Check out Heart Connex.
Christ through faith
I talked to a cat the other day
And he was like;
“Man I really wanna come to Christ
But I gotta clean my life up first, get my sins together”
I told em, I used to think that way too
I thought I had to change myself before I could come to Christ
But Christ changed me
Let me tell you my story, it starts like this
It’s 5:46 in the morning, tossing and turning
Chest burning, sermons in my head keep reoccurring
Having visions in my head of a kid
Crying at the feet of the Father, for all the wrong things that he did
Now I’m sweating’ in my sheets can’t sleep
My mind keeps telling’ me I’m six feet deep
Don’t remind me, even though I’m still alive I can’t tell
The way I’m living my life I feel I’m going to hell
God they telling me I should accept you
That you had to leave the world, cause the world left you
Reason I can’t change, like a mystery to me
So I make believe there really is a heaven for a G
Even though they say you loved the world so much, you shed ya blood
God I feel I’m too messed up for love
They tell me come as I am but I smell like smoke
My whole life’s full of sin cause it’s all I know
The bible told me that you died for my sins
If I believe in Christ, it’ll save me from the end
But I’m scared to ask you, to save me my heart
So evil, I got thoughts, that’s full of hatred hurting people
I thought at first I had to clean up my life
Now I’m hearing I just need to cling to the light
I’m ready to do it, but Lord I pray you understand
My life is a mess, will you take me as I am
Will you take me as I am
I know the way I’m living is wrong
But I can’t change on my own, trying to make it alone
I wonder, how could you love me when my life so ugly
But you came down and died for me
Will you take me as I am
I know the way I’m living is wrong
But I can’t change on my own, trying to make it alone
I wonder, how could you love me when my life so ugly
But you came down and died for me
Will you take me as I am
I’m sick and tired of trying to me the man, my daddy never taught me to be
I’m grown up now, life ain’t what I thought it would be
I made many mistakes in my past I can’t fix
Now I’m staring at this crucifix tatted on my wrist
Is it true what they telling me, am I just crazy
Did ya bleed on the cross, for my sins to save me
But why would ya die for me
My whole life I’ve been working for Satan, while He fed lies to me
And now I’m hearing too much, trying to get a true touch
Of a love that can change me, I’m all screwed up
Figure Hell is what I deserve
But your word says we all fall short so I guess we all outta burn
Teach me I wanna learn
How you could save a wretch like me, before death says it’s my turn
I think I finally understand
No matter my past, you’ll still take me as I am
My father had a few last words to give
I be telling people the reason to live
The reason to die, united with the King in the sky
This life is passing us by, I got no reason to lie
You’ll never give the world enough, they’ll hunger for more
They figure there ways are nothing to the wondrous lord
More security than the man that left you
More love than the moms who kept you
He’ll always accept you
Be everything your supposed to
Let Christ rule ya heart, mind, body and soul cause He chose you
And if the world don’t know you
It don’t matter you’re Gods child and he’ll never disown you
Ya purpose on earth is far from worthless
That’s why ya glorified like ya life’s been purchased
And it don’t matter if the world don’t seen us
We still mean the world to Jesus
Yeah, we’re saved by grace through faith
It’s not works
Ain’t nothing you can do, ain’t nothing I can do
That could get us this grace salvation that we got man
It’s only Christ
So if you feel like you gotta clean yourself up
Before you can come to Him
Forget it
Just come to Him
He’ll take you as you are, and he’ll change YOU
From the inside, out
