Kirsten Lum

YouTube video by Faithversity Song Of The Lamb - Harvest Bashta [Lyric Video.]

May the Lamb receive the reward of His suffering

Starting with me

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Suffering is sacred and so is joy

If I only offer the overflow of my heart in prayer to God, but not the rights to change my heart, I shouldn’t be surprised prayer doesn’t have an effect.

@ryanburge.bsky.social might be interested in this!

part 2

There are more types of prayers than “talking to Jesus like he’s your friend” part 1

Cultivate a way of being with God that doesn’t feed — or feed on — ambition

How my New Year’s resolutions for Bible study went wrong, pt 1!

Have you ever observed a church using the Big 5?

My dog’s name is Huan 🥹

Relevant song I sing to my family too often: www.instagram.com/reel/Cbu_1ID...

Merry Christmas to all those who don’t celebrate but would still welcome sincere wishes for their peace and flourishing.

When you pray, which direction do you look most often? Backward, inward, outward, or forward?

To experience deeper abiding in Christ, I had to teach myself to imagine God’s love.

I started by dwelling on the highest love I have ever known for or from someone.

Then I imagined that love coming from God to me, and going from me to God.

He loves you — and you love Him — at least that much.

1: Shepherds

Squeezing a new hobby in under the wire for Advent!

Don’t withhold from your inner child the good thing that it craves because you, when you were that child, had to go without

Anyone that you think is talking about this/the solution to this in a compelling way? I’ve been obsessed for months and all signs point to Dallas Willard

Yes — should be convicting to a church leader that their church is not clearly articulating what following Jesus “is” and “is for.”

Makes me wonder if they don’t know? That they don’t know how to explain it and so don’t try?

Do they know if the people already in their church are following Jesus?

So agree with this. It feels like churches assume that as long as someone is attending church, they are following Jesus. But turns out, how to follow Jesus and why is something that needs to be taught.

Why so much exhortation to follow Jesus, and so little practical, person-to-person instruction?

The thing about reading poetry is that for a long time you feel like everyone else is in on something that you are not, and you try to hide it.

And then you discover that you were right, and the thing everyone else is in on is that there’s nothing to be in on, and then you try to hide that too.

(Especially when that Christian doesn’t take themselves seriously)

Don’t brush off that non-Christians can sense when they’re with a Christian who takes Jesus seriously.

I wonder if this distinction is particularly difficult to see for people who were raised Christian who grew up learningg about Jesus life to help a child “be like Jesus”

I thought spiritual discipline was living like Jesus lived. But it’s actually living like Jesus would have lived if he had been born as you

All I Want for Christmas is Jesus Playlist · Kirsten Lum · 12 items · 1 saves

I had the same experience! I was looking for something joyful, reverential, thoughtful, beautiful, sincere — got a lot of self-centered, cynical, materialistic, irreverent. I made “All I Want for Christmas is Jesus” playlist 😆

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