Holy Broccoli

The Broccoli's thoughts on God, religion, philosophy, and anything else regarding spirituality.

There will be no politics on this blog, except that which is related to religion. If you want to see my thoughts on politics, visit here: http://freebroccoli.tumblr.com/

May 11, 2012 3:29 pm
"The Bible is there to enable God’s people to be equipped to do God’s work in God’s world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they posses all God’s truth."

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N.T. Wright, Simply Christian (via murphisthinking)
February 14, 2012 6:59 pm

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January 25, 2012 2:00 pm
"Six days a week we wrestle with the world, wringing profit from the earth; on the Sabbath we especially care for the seed of eternity planted in the soul. The world has our hands, but our soul belongs to Someone Else. Six days a week we seek to dominate the world, on the seventh day we try to dominate the self."

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Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (via invisibleforeigner)

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January 24, 2012 5:27 pm
Wow. I don’t think this could possibly be considered correct from any perspective.

Wow. I don’t think this could possibly be considered correct from any perspective.

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December 22, 2011 1:01 am

To say we are a Christian nation founded upon Christian ideals like Newt Gingrich says, makes me question - how is being hurtful to immigrants do honor to Jesus’s teachings, or of promoting a system that by design creates inequality of wealth and opportunity consistent with the love and peace of Christ, or how would bombing Iran be an act of Love like Jesus teaches us?

econblues2011:

world blues 2011 adds - politicians love to invoke God when it is convenient to support their own views, but they are strangely silent or outright ignorant of God’s views when it goes against their policies….

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November 10, 2011 4:18 pm
[ˈkɾeːdoː]: Heads I win; tails you lose: 5 spiritual flip-flops Christians must avoid.

gcnjustin:

Remember the other day, when I wrote about Trendianity, Christianity’s copycat cousin? One way you can distinguish the two is when a disagreement arises.

Genuine, gospel-focused Christianity should lead us to be gracious in disagreement (Romans 14). In some situations, that…

October 22, 2011 10:17 pm
"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

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Billy Graham  (via donnamaria20)
October 11, 2011 10:40 pm
kre-do: Ha!  This is so true.  And funny.

kre-do:

Ha!  This is so true.  And funny.

October 6, 2011 3:17 pm

kre-do:

“The church should look less like a country club in demographics and more like Wal-Mart.”

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October 2, 2011 11:54 pm
"Serving people is the only way people’s perceptions of the church are ever going to change. This is why it is so toxic for the Gospel when Christians picket and boycott and complain about how bad the world is…why blame dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be."

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Rob Bell (via haereticum)

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