Lifehouse Everything Skit

Remembered our first Youth and Young Adult first Missions Exposure and Experience Trip to Thailand in Dec 2004. We did a similar skit like this. Sarah was the girl in the spot-light for ours. :)

Ollie
Sep 2007

We cannot keep the love of God to ourselves

"Pray without ceasing"
- 1 Thessalonians 5:17 (ESV)


There is a way of life so hid with Christ in God that in the midst of the day's business one is inwardly lifting brief prayers, short bursts of praise, subdued whispers of adoration and of tender love to the Beyond that is within. One can live in a well-nigh continuous state of unworded prayer, directed toward God, directed toward people and enterprises we have on our heart. There is no hurry about it at all; it is a life unspeakable and full of glory, an inner world of splendor within which we, unworthy, may live. Some of you know it and can live in it; others of you may wistfully long for it; it can be yours. Now out from such a holy Center come the commissions of life. Our fellowship with God issues in world concern. We cannot keep the love of God to ourselves.
- A Testament of Devotion by Thomas Kelly

Ollie
Sep 2007

Valuing the One Thing

God's word is uttered by those who repeat Christ's teaching
and meditate on his sayings. Let us always speak this word.
When we speak about wisdom, we are speaking of Christ.
When we speak about virtue, we are speaking of Christ.
When we speak about justice, we are speaking of Christ.
When we speak about peace, we are speaking of Christ.
When we speak about truth and life and redemption, we
are speaking of Christ.
- Ambrose

"Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant—dog dung. I’ve dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ. .... Friends, don’t get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward—to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back."
- Philippians 3:8, 13-14. (The Message)

The high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus - may I value Him and Him alone above all else.

Ollie
Sep 2007

Choosing the One Thing

I need thee to teach me day by day, according to each day's
opportunities and needs. Give me, O my Lord, that purity of
conscience which alone can receive, which alone can improve
thy inspiration. My ears are dull, so that I cannot hear they
voice. My eyes are dim, so that I cannot see thy tokens. Thou
alone canst quicken my hearing, and purge my sight, and
cleanse and renew my heart. Teach me to sit at thy feet and to
hear thy Word, Amen.
- John Henry Newman

Open my eyes to see where you are already at work in the world; open my ears that I might incline to listen to your still small voice; and open my heart that I might receive your Word with great joy. Teach me to choose the One Thing.

Ollie
Sep 2007

Seeking the One Thing

I love you, O my God; and I desire to love you more and more.
Grant to me that I may love you much as I desire, and as
much as I ought. O dearest friend, who has loved and saved
me, the thought of whom is so sweet and always growing
sweeter, watch over my lips, my steps, my deeds, and I shall
not need to be anxious either for my soul or my body. Give me
love, sweetest of all gifts, which knows no enemy. Give me in
my heart pure love, born of your love to me, that I may love
others as you love me. O most loving Father of Jesus Christ,
from whom flows all love, let my heart, frozen in sin, cold to
you and cold to others, be warmed by this divine fire. So help
and bless me in your Son. Amen.
- A Prayer of Anselm

Anselm's prayer is beautiful. Often times the saints that have gone before have deep and intimate prayers. Father, may the orientation of my life and my heart's desire be that of seeking the One Thing - Jesus.

Ollie
Sep 2007

Deep Longing

Deep in the heart of every person is the longing,
fitfully glimpsed and but half realized,
to gather up all its strivings into an intense pursuit
of one all-embracing objective worthy
of the toil and tears and devotion of the human heart.
- Karl Rahner

Ollie
Sep 2007