I've definitely been kind of lazy lately. I think I worked out whatever demons were buggin me about that denominationlism stuff. Been feeling much freer lately in that regard. But I just haven't felt much like posting. But I've been having some great thoughts about things I could write about. I found this quote on a fellow bloggers site and really like it, and definitley agree with the truth behind it. My flames definitely need to be fanned. It's been awhile, and there have been plenty of wet blankets hovering around for the last few years. I pray for a little fanning of the flames of my soul, my Christian soul. Its always scary to pray for the things you know you need and that your soul is crying out for. But scary in a good way, 'cause God is Good, All the Time.

"Every Christian is a contradiction to this old world. He crosses it at every point. He goes against the grain from beginning to end. From the day that he is born again until the day that he goes on to be with the Lord, he must stand against the current of a world always going the other way. God expects him to be "beside himself," "a fool for Christ's sake," "drunk on new wine." If he allows it, men will tone him down, steal the joy of his salvation, and reduce him to the dreary level of the general average. If the devil cannot keep us from being saved, he next endeavors to make average Christians of us, and in this he usually succeeds. He tames the holy recklessness of God's dare-saints until they sink into the drab pattern of most of us, "faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly dull." The devil does not mind our joining church if we behave like most of those who are already inside. But when a real, wide-awake Christian breezes along, taking the Gospel seriously, the devil grows alarmed and begins plotting his downfall. He gets plenty of assistance right in the church, for many church folk do not like to have their Laodicean complacency upset by these who turn the world upside down. So they conspire with Satan to turn the young Christian's fever into a chill. There are always plenty of human wet blankets to smother the zealot's flame, and they have put out more spiritual fires than have all the skeptics and infidels." -- Vance Havner

"If your Gospel isn't touching others, it hasn't touched you!" -- Curry R. Blake