Not the most average Joe you'll meet.

[allthingseurope]

London (by bautisterias)

[notsoaveragejoe]

Take me back. Now.

[att]

Get to the fun things in life by using #X before you drive to pause the conversation.

Artwork by Matthew Williamson 

[notsoaveragejoe]

Don't text and drive. It's just not worth it. Love others enough to not text them while they're driving.

[sonofpeopleweknow]

I’m very serious about this

[notsoaveragejoe]

Take me back to Ireland.

[notsoaveragejoe]

Worship is not an optional extra for the Christian, a self-indulgent religious activity. It is the basic Christian stance, and indeed (so Christians claim) the truly human stance. 'Worship' derives from 'worth-ship': it means giving God all He's worth.

N.T. Wright

[notsoaveragejoe]

Lord, give us the faith to do the impossible for You; and rescue us when our faith suddenly gives out.

N.T. Wright

[notsoaveragejoe]

The kingdom of heaven is far, far more than 'me and my spiritual life' now and salvation in the end. The kingdom of heaven is about God's rule sweeping through the sad, decaying world we live in. That is a goal worth working for! That is a vocation to beat all others.

N.T. Wright

[notsoaveragejoe]

Some people believe that power grows from the barrel of a gun. So it can, but history shows that it never grows well nor for very long. Force, in the end, is sterile...

Queen Elizabeth II

[notsoaveragejoe]

Gracious Lord, as Your heavenly rule extends on earth, help us to know Your story and live as Your family.

N.T. Wright

[notsoaveragejoe]

Who is Connor's honors?

The answer to this question is constantly in flux. I suppose my answer today is: Who truly wants it the most?

... and it's a made up title

[silhouetter]

[notsoaveragejoe]

5 months...

[notsoaveragejoe]

How gently and lovingly You wake in my heart, where in secret You dwell alone; and in Your sweet breathing, filled with good and glory, how tenderly You swell my heart with love.

St. John of the Cross

[notsoaveragejoe]

We aren't born again. We are born again and again and again.

Richard Rohr

[notsoaveragejoe]

Churches should be the most honest place in town, not the happiest place in town.

Walter Brueggemann

[notsoaveragejoe]

In all the situations of life the "will of God" comes to us not merely as an external dictate of impersonal law but above all as an interior invitation of personal love.

Thomas Merton

[notsoaveragejoe]

Anyone at all whose heart is open to new dimensions of human experience, anyone who loves good writing, anyone who wants a window into the bright lights and dark corners of the human soul - anyone open to the beautiful expression of a larger vision of reality should react to the Psalms like someone who hasn't had a good meal in a week or two.

N.T. Wright

[notsoaveragejoe]

The fruit of the Spirit is the outward evidence of the inward reality of the heart.

Richard Foster