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The City of Satisfaction

Jonathan Storment — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:51:33 +0000

There is a reason in God's good world that things are created to bring pleasure, and we are created to enjoy certain things. But C.S. Lewis' famous point about pleasure is that nothing truly satisfies. Because that moment of unsatisfaction is actually a God-given gift pointing to something else. Something deeper.

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Christians and Pleasure

Jonathan Storment — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:41:32 +0000

Frederick Buechner once said "Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid." I think that's exactly right. Christians are at their best when they have one foot in the suffering of this world, and one foot in their hope for the next. They suffer with the world today and celebrate with the world to come.

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The Party Tithe

Jonathan Storment — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:28:29 +0000

There are places in the Bible where it seems like God wants his people to exhorbantly and joyfully blow quite a bit of money celebrating life and freedom and Him. Which sounds strange, but only because we have developed a pretty anemic view of celebration. Because parties were his idea in the first place.

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You’ve Got to Fight For Your Right…

Jonathan Storment — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:40:26 +0000

God has given us much to celebrate. And yes there is time to dance and a time to mourn, but each season has it's rightful place, but what we've seem to have done is a lukewarm mixture of both. The spirit of Despair is so easy to give into. Cynicism is the currency that we deal in, and Christians are no different. So I would like to suggest that churches pay attention to this more as a spiritual discipline. Because the Kingdom of God has come and is coming.

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How To Throw a Party

Jonathan Storment — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:19:22 +0000

So this Saturday I went to the new Cowboys Stadium to see my Razorbacks beat the pants off of Texas A&M in the largest stadium known to man. People were cheering like we had won the national championship, at one point I hugged several total strangers. There was a drunk, fraternity guy in front of [...]

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