May 2012
18 posts
1 tag
[Inspire Sam]
Hello friends and family!
I decided to start a new original video song series dependent on your own creative juices!
Here are the rules to have your entry considered:
1. Create a NON-MUSICAL work of art! This can be a painting, drawing, photograph, poem, short story, monologue, drama, dance, etc. You can submit something you’ve already made!
2. Make sure that the content of your art is...
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God is infinite. His character is beyond description, and his attributes are too great to fully fathom.
It is a fallacy that you are running away from God…You are actually running towards another side of him. If you run away from his hand of love which reaches out towards your heart, then what do you think you are running into?
Jesus is our key to unashamedly embracing The Infinite One, no...
Anonymous asked: when did you start rapping? have you ever tried to "battle-rap" and to freestyle? how long did it take you to be good at rapping?
sweetwinterhello asked: Your blog and your faith is such an inspiration ! Could you share your top 5 favourite verses from the Bible? I love to see people's favourite parts from the scriptures. Keep up the good work and good luck with your fast ! It is very noble of you, I know it's tough !
“Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have...”
– Attributed to Francis Drake, 1577 (via transformingnations)
Help my friend.
Guys, Danny is also my friend. Please, if you have money, even $5 will help. I’m asking you to give more, appealing to your kindness and giving hearts. I have personally donated $100 to my friend. If you have the blessing of God, use it to bless others!!!!
nakhiphop:
“Hey Everyone,
My name is Danny, I have a huge problem that I don’t know what to do.… I got into a huge financial mess.. I...
Please help my friend! →
Guys, Danny is also my friend. Please, if you have money, even $5 will help. I’m asking you to give more, appealing to your kindness and giving hearts. I have personally donated $100 to my friend. If you have the blessing of God, use it to bless others!!!!
nakhiphop:
“Hey Everyone,
My name is Danny, I have a huge problem that I don’t know what to do.… I got into a huge financial...
even though it’s been used hundreds of times,
sometimes you just got to use that chord progression again.
thegentleway asked: Would you mind a short critique of your paper? I am no music expert by any stretch of the imagination. But a lot of philosophy that was in your paper piqued my interest. I think it would be nice to see things from a perspective of a person who don't necessarily follow/accept presuppositionalism as a viable form of apologetics.
Aesthetics of Music
I wrote this brief essay on the aesthetics of music for a class assignment, and I just wanted to share it with you guys. I won’t be insulted if it’s TL;DR status, but if you do take time to read this, it’s greatly appreciated. It’s academic in language and not as comprehensive or grammatically polished as I’d like it to be, but hopefully you can understand my own...
“No literature is more realistic and honest in facing the harsh facts of life than the Bible. At no time is there the faintest suggestion that the life of faith exempts us from difficulties. What it promises is preservation from all the evil in them…All the water in the oceans cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside. Nor can all the trouble in the world harm us unless it gets within us. That is...
If you are worth nothing, then why would your creator write himself into your life? Why would he die for you? In Christ you are worth the ultimate price. You are loved. You belong to him. Won’t you trust in him?
“To stay away from Christianity because part of the Bible’s teaching is offensive to you assumes that if there is a God he wouldn’t have any views that upset you. Does that belief make sense? If you don’t trust the Bible enough to let it challenge and correct your thinking, how could you ever have a personal relationship with God? In any truly personal relationship, the other person has to...
Young, Reformed, and Mean
http://theresurgence.com/2012/05/01/the-dangers-of-fundamentalism-in-leadership
Great article…it’s interesting because as I get older, my passion seems to grow colder. It does feel like I’m losing my first love…I start to criticize the wrong things in fellow Christians rather than embracing the fact that they love the same Jesus and that we agree on the most fundamental...
April 2012
16 posts
One of the strongest ways my struggle with pride manifests itself is in my tendency to be extremely critical and hateful if someone or something doesn’t seem right to me. My flesh wants more than anything to be God, so I struggle so much with trying to be different from people or better than the norm in as many ways as I think I’m capable of. I end up hating people and ultimately...
The strongest testimony to Jesus Christ in your academics is to pursue excellence and integrity, to see that God has given you the ability and privilege to learn, and to pursue these things in quiet humility. More than that, he has called you to be a living sacrifice (Rom 12:1) and to love him with your all your heart, mind, and soul. (Matt 22:37) I wish I knew this earlier in life. I am only...
Jesus married the Church with his blood in his love and obedience to the Father.
Jesus married the Church with his blood in his love and obedience to the Father.
Jesus married the Church with his blood in his love and obedience to the Father.
So why are Christians of all types unwilling to surrender their ideas of love in earthly marriage? Christ CHOSE to love the church BECAUSE of the...
Dear Lord,
Please forgive me for what I’ve done to this body, one you deem worthy through the blood of Jesus to be your temple. You are so merciful to me. Thank you for revealing my sin to me along with such a vast measure of your grace. Thank you Jesus, for saving a desecrated temple like me. May I trust in your power to restore my temple as you have restored yours, just like you said you...
Anonymous asked: whereabouts in korea is your family originally from? have you been to korea and do you feel a strong connection to it?
Anonymous asked: I come from a not-very-religious family, so I've never really been exposed to all these things about God and such. But I love listening to just your voice on youtube, so I spend a lot of time hearing about your views on God and Christianity, and I'm really curious...how did you begin becoming so open to having God in your life? How does one, being complete strangers with God, begin to...
Anonymous asked: Hey Sam, as a fellow musician in Christ i'd like to ask you something. I'm finding myself becoming prideful on my praise team, should I quit and find someone else to take my place?
koreanconfused asked: Hey Sam,
Thanks for being such a blessing. God has given you the talent to compose/write music, and I want to encourage you to continue to do what you're doing for the Lord! I have a quick question... God told me to be patient for this particular situation in my life. It's difficult to abide His command hahaha. Do you have any words of encouragement to help me to stay...
Thanks for being such a blessing. God has given you the talent to compose/write music, and I want to encourage you to continue to do what you're doing for the Lord! I have a quick question... God told me to be patient for this particular situation in my life. It's difficult to abide His command hahaha. Do you have any words of encouragement to help me to stay...
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“13It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD” — 2...
Anonymous asked: Hi, Sam.
I just want to say that I enjoy the depth of your lyrics and the music that you produce. It really is inspiring and it reminds me a lot about how God is really weaved into every aspect of our lives.
I was wondering... when you write, do you usually write (or have you written) straight off a passage in the Bible or do you usually write in general response to what God's...
I just want to say that I enjoy the depth of your lyrics and the music that you produce. It really is inspiring and it reminds me a lot about how God is really weaved into every aspect of our lives.
I was wondering... when you write, do you usually write (or have you written) straight off a passage in the Bible or do you usually write in general response to what God's...
Anonymous asked: Recently I was forced to drop out of high school, and I had to move across the country.I won't get into specifics, but things have been really tough. My relationship with my family isn't well, and even the church that I went to rejected me. Things just seem to be going downhill and I feel truly depressed. Now I'm starting to question everything.. why is all this happening? If there...
“If a woman dresses to enhance certain parts of her body, she is communicating to the world what she thinks is the most valuable thing about her. Sisters, don’t live like this. Men and the world have lied to you in order to trick and then cheapen you. This way, us men can “get it for cheap.” Every thing was made for the glory of God, especially a woman’s worth.”...
It blows my mind that people in Japan and Korea listen to my music. All glory to God. :]
Ten Things I Want To Tell Teenage Girls | by Kate... →
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March 2012
2 posts
Song I wrote for a wedding! :]
koh-vett
Whenever I jealously wan’t something I can’t have, I need to remind myself that Jesus had no reason to want me…other than the fact that he simply did. Life is so much deeper than what I see. Show me, Lord.
February 2012
9 posts
unity
“that all the wisdom and the capacity of human understanding can by no means disclose to us the light of the first truth, and make us avow that perfect contentment exists in perfect simplicity, which one never enjoys sufficiently except when one contemplates it in itself, and when one abandons diversity entirely to embrace the divine unity” — mersenne
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Ai
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning...
success
My view/dream/hope of success [God willing]:
“His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’” —Matthew 25:21
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Epistemologos
Epistemology according to the Bible -
“5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD and shun evil. 8 This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.”
—Proverbs 3:5-8 :3
Sooooo….I can’t...
Chit-Chat
If you ever talk to me in person, please come with lots of unique questions! :3
I think because I put so much into music, sometimes I come off as inexpressive or uninterested when I talk to people. Gots to work on that! :3
Offense
The offensive message of the Gospel:
Man: “I am a free thinker. I choose me.”
God: “Then you have no part in me, your creator, for I demand everything.”
Man: “Fine.”
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Man: “God, I simply don’t know. Make me like Christ.”
God: “Come, my child.”
Man: “It’s hard to...
January 2012
10 posts
No Guilt
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” — Romans 8:1
This is such an impossible truth to believe. It means that you needn’t feel any condemnation anymore or ever again if you profess with your life that Christ is your King.
I tend to believe the lie that God is angry at me the moment I give in to lustful desires or thoughts of sloth...
Anonymous asked: I feel like those words from that link you posted about the Jesus hating religion is valid. I can see where those points are highlighted, and I understand. But perhaps the author is speaking from the context of religion today--what false prophets are making it, from what luke-warm Christians are making it.
“Does Jesus Hate Religion? Kinda, Sorta, Not Really by Keving DeYoung
There’s a...”
– Word. Wisdom from elders :D
http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung/2012/01/13/does-jesus-hate-religion-kinda-sorta-not-really/
grace-driven
“People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we...