Beeeeeeerthaaaaaa

I love Jesus with all my heart. I don't say things, if there's nothing to say. And sometimes when I'm bored I lay on the kitchen floor and pretend I'm a bread crumb and also sometimes when I'm bored I like to put a flash light under my shirt and pretend I'm E.T. And sometimes when it rains I go outside with a cocktail umbrella and pretend I'm a giant. I like the rain and enjoy long, romantic walks to the fridge. I'm a really down to earth girl. Because you know, gravity. In the morning, when I wake up I make little baby dinosaur noises. But the best of all, I am outrageously loved, by the Author of love! Wow!

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There is a wondrous open-mindedness about children and an insatiable desire to learn from life. An open attitude is like an open door - a welcoming disposition toward fellow travelers who knock on our door during the middle of the day, the middle of the week, or middle of a lifetime. Some are dirtballs, grungy, disheveled, and bedraggled. The sophisticated adult within me shudders and is reluctant to offer them hospitality. They may be carrying precious gifts under their shabby rags, but still I prefer clean-shaven Jesus followers who are neatly attired, properly pedigreed, and who affirm my vision, echo my thoughts, stroke me and make me feel good. Yet my inner child protests, "I want new friends, not old mirrors." When our inner child is not nurtured and nourished our minds gradually close to new ideas, unprofitable commitments, and the surprises of the Spirit. Evangelical faith is bartered for cozy, comfortable piety. A failure of nerve and an unwillingness to risk distorts God into a bookkeeper, and the gospel of grace is swapped for the security of religious bondage. #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #India #Travel

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New Post "...christians believe (and I know this because I was one) that Jesus is the only One that can transform, not change, but transform (big difference there) our hearts..." Link in bio #New #Post #Blog #Blogging #Writing #Write #Prayer #God #Jesus #Grace #Mercy #Bible #BodyOfChrist #Church #Freedom #Questions #Answers #Healing #Homosexuality #Speak #Truth #Love

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Mom, meet Crumbs And Cream. Crumbs And Cream, meet mom. #Cookies #IceCream #IceCreamSandwiches #Mom

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HEEEEYYY George!! So way back in the day I was on this camp, and one morning I woke up and there was a shoe print at the very top of the wall. And it would have been absolutely impossible to have made that mark, so naturally, I was really freaked out and I told my one roommate and she was freaked out too! And then the other roommate heard me telling the first roommate about the footprint and turns out she used her shoe to crush a spider and her shoe marked the wall because there was dirt on it and yeah, it was pretty wild. Anyway, I just want so say HAPPY BIRTHDAY my cute-as-button friend. And your one of those little cute red buttons, not one of those buttons you find on a shoulder-padded blazer. Blegh. I saw that photo your mom posted of you playing piano when you were a little, and your hands are still the same size! How great is that?! You're kind and patient and wise and funny and gracious and merciful and sweet and a good listener. You are altogether lovely and what's more, you are the words of Jesus made flesh. I can't believe I get to call you my friend! Eat that whole chocolate-finger, Smartie cake and get some clogged arteries for yo birthday, homeslice. Like that shoe print you left a mark on my big, fat heart! Sending you an EPIC hug! Love you a lot and miss you! #WhatALotYouGot #Happy #Birthday #Irish #SouthAfrican #Traveller #WorldChanger #Wise #Funny #AndAllThoseOtherAmazingHastags

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Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel the Spirit whisper to me, You tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet. It's hard to hear the gentle whisper of the Spirit amid the noise of Christendom. If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would look strikingly similar to the pop Christianity that has taken over the airwaves of this world. #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #Homeless #Hungry #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #India #Travel

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We need not hide all that is ugly and repulsive in us. Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don't have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace. As we glance up, we are astonished to find the eyes of Jesus open with wonder, deep with understanding, and gentle with compassion. Something is radically wrong when the local church rejects a person accepted by Jesus - when a harsh, judgmental, and unforgiving sentence is passed on homosexuals; when a divorcée is denied communion; when the child of a prostitute is refused baptism; when an unlaicized priest is forbidden the sacraments. Jesus comes to the ungodly, even on Sunday morning. His coming ends ungodliness and makes us worthy. Otherwise, we are establishing at the heart of Christianity an utter ungodly and unworthy preoccupation with works. Jesus sat down at table with anyone who wanted to be present, including those who were banished from decent homes. In the sharing of a meal they received consideration instead of the expected condemnation. A merciful acquittal instead of a hasty verdict of guilty. Amazing grace instead of universal disgrace. Here is a very practical demonstration of the law of grace - a new chance in life. Any church that will not accept that it consists of sinful men and women, and exists for them, implicitly rejects the gospel of grace. #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #India #Travel (at New Delhi, India)

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God, who loved evidoers so much He died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for. Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs, we only have celebrities. #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #Homeless #Hungry #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #India #Travel (at New Delhi, India)

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This South African, Argentinian, South African is one of those people that has a birthday every year, and today is that day. You're the most hardworking person I know. Thank you for letting me read your spanish Bible even though I don't know what it says and then teaching me a new accent. It's a brave new world little lady! Thank you for your caring heart and that you worry a lot. Thank you that you laugh at your own jokes so I don't have to. And thank you for the pen that makes fart noises. It's truly amazing, and has changed my life. I love our friendship. I love you Nicoleslaw. Stay classy. Hugs hugs. #Nicoleslaw #Happy #Birthday #Spanish #SheAsCoolAsTheOtherSideOfAPillow #WorkWorkWork #Hugs #Friendship

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New Post "...The greatest need for our time is for the church to become what it has seldom been: the body of Christ with its face to the world, loving others regardless of religion or culture, pouring itself out in a life of service, offering hope to a frightened world, and presenting itself as a real alternative to the existing arrangement..." Link in bio #New #Post #Blog #Blogging #Writing #Write #Prayer #God #Jesus #Grace #Mercy #Bible #BodyOfChrist #Church #Freedom #Questions #Answers #Healing #Speak #Truth #Love

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The green green grass of home. We get excited about mountains. #QT #Mom #Excited #Family #Travel #SouthAfrica #WestCoast #WestCoastCustoms #IfItFreeItsForMe #Jokes #Drive

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I think that's what our world is desperately in need of: Lovers. People who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are concerned about. The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see". We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here. #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #India #Travel (at New Delhi, India)

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New Post "...I will love you outrageously all the days of your life..." Link in bio #New #Post #Blog #Blogging #Writing #Write #Prayer #God #Jesus #Grace #Mercy #Bible #Freedom #Questions #Answers #Healing #Abuse #Homosexuality #SexualAbuse #Speak #Truth #Love

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Going through the perpetual motion of existance, day in and day out, every once in a while you meet a rare, set apart homosapien that you become friends with within a beat of a heart. This irish lady is one of those rare homosapiens. She's is sweet, kind, very funny and just like Jesus. Oh and she's extremely intelligent, which is why I Googled synonyms for regular words, to sound more circumlocution. (I don't know what that means) Had a lot of fun hanging yesterday! #DontLeave #WhenIrelandInvadesSouthAfrica #LoveTheAccent #CanIHaveYourAutograph #Peacekeeper #Friends #Jesus #Conversation #Mission #Travel #BlackAndWhite #SouthAfrica

[berthabresler16]

Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with. I've learned more about God from the tears of homeless mothers than any systematic theology can ever teach me. It is a beautiful thing when folks in poverty are no longer just a missions project but become genuine friends and family with whom we laugh, cry, dream and struggle. Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, triumphal, and powerful. #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #Homeless #Hungry #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #India #Travel (at Kota, India)

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Today is world anti-human trafficking day. Here @stop_trafficking_of_people we've launched a campaign called #raiseyourvoiceNOW Write a sign with the #raiseyourvoiceNOW tag and say STOP to human trafficking. Join the fight and raise your voice. We will dance upon injustice till it kills us, then we will dance on streets of gold #raiseyourvoiceNOW #HumanTrafficking #AntiHumanTrafficking #Campaign #Social #Injustice #ForFreedom #Awareness

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There is a beautiful moment in the Bible when the prophet Elijah feels God's presence. The scriptures say that a great and wonderful wind tore the mountains apart, but God was not in the wind. After the wind, there was an earthquake, but God was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came fire but God was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. It was the whisper of God. Today we can hear the whisper where we least expect it: in a baby refugee and in a homeless rabbi, in crack addicts and displaced children, in a groaning creation. In the words that Indian activist and author Arundhati Roy proclaimed at the World Social Forum in Brazil, "Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." The whisper cried out for God to save the church from us Christians and breathe new life into the aging Body. - The Irresistible Revolution #PractiseResurrection #Life #Generations #GenerationsForEternity #Think #Eternity #Missions #Go #RiseUp #Grace #Mercy #CalledForNations #PeopleMatter #LivesMatter #Creation #PourOut #God #Jesus #BlackAndWhite #SeaPoint #CapeTown #SouthAfrica

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Gah! Best mother freakin' surprise ever. And I mean mother freakin' surprise in the sense that I didn't know moms was coming down. #TheBest #Mom #Surprise #Family #Bonding #HaveNotSeenHerSinceIwasBorn #Ocean #OceanOfLove #Spoils