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Hey friends!!!

I have been thinking about posting on tumblr lately and I wanted to post something… but I don’t want to do it quite yet… I have been busy for a while, so now I’m kind of taking a quick break, and in a week or so, I think I will fill all you peoples in on what is happening in my life. So, consider this something… coming soon. I will most likely post a video to discuss all of this… maybe… okay, probably not because I will forget… but hopefully I’ll put up a post…  ….  …. maybe :P

Peace!

J

P.S.

I have formspring! Ask away!!! www.formspring.me/jaydwilde

Interesting chart I saw on Bible Gateway… Definitely using this for my Bible study this week! You should too!

Interesting chart I saw on Bible Gateway… Definitely using this for my Bible study this week! You should too!

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So I just discovered the amazingness of Playlist.com… so here is what I’ve got…

"So often, churches look to appeal to culture so people feel comfortable, even sacrificing values… rarely is it asked how the church can make worship welcoming and uncomfortable… that’s right, uncomfortable."

- Some thoughts from Intro to Worship class

"… Sin wants to be alone with people. It takes them away from the community. The more lonely people become, the more destructive the power of sin over them. The more deeply they become entangled in it, the more unholy is their loneliness. Sin wants to remain unknown. It shuns the light. In the darkness of what is left unsaid sin poisons the whole being of a person. This can happen in the midst of a pious community. In confession the light of the gospel breaks into the darkness and closed isolation of the heart. Sin must be brought into the light. What is unspoken is said openly and confessed. All that is secret and hidden comes to light. It is a hard struggle until the sin crosses one’s lips in confession. But God breaks down gates of bronze and cuts through bars of iron (Ps. 107:16). Since the confession of sin is made in the presence of another Christian, the last stronghold of self-justification is abandoned. The sinner surrenders, giving up all evil, giving the sinner’s heart to God and finding the forgiveness of all one’s sin in the community of Jesus Christ and other Christians."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

"We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table. But thou art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy."

- The Book of Common Prayer

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So… I gave in to the crowd and got myself a tumblr account… I am leaving blogspot for this amazing-ness. Please be patient for me as I work with this! Hopefully it will be the most awesome thing on this planet!!!