tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-362015982024-02-28T04:28:52.139-08:00Learning to BreatheJoshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-90362363032608044402013-10-28T18:36:00.004-07:002013-10-28T18:46:20.581-07:00Remembering a friend and Salvation
I'll never forget the day in 7th grade, at summer camp, that I got mad at something and was rather upset. I don't exactly remember what it was but I am sure it was something trivial. You know like someone took the seat next to the cute girl I wanted to sit by or maybe I didnt get a piece of candy during the candy rave explosion...who knows. The point is that I was upset the entire nightly Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-13860081496494627722013-03-04T16:03:00.001-08:002013-03-04T16:03:37.738-08:00Recently I met a beautiful girl that I thought was absolutely perfect for me. Let's call her Audrey. I thought things were going well and that she was in to me. She had the most beautiful eyes, she had a sweet outgoing personality and loved God with all her heart. What more could I want! Well fast forward a bit and she didn't seem to want anything to do with me. It sucked to be honest, especiallyJoshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-86998219735044239172012-01-03T13:25:00.000-08:002012-01-03T13:34:41.094-08:00Why must i be content with being so ignorantly selfish and shamelesslessly focused on nothing more than my happiness. I must cling to the joy that is only found in God and stop chasing these false gospels that our culture promotes. My heart cannot take it nor function without being solely reliant on the one who called me out of sin and into life. My will is strongly opposed to Christ and his Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-59362074876551138742011-03-01T07:23:00.000-08:002011-03-01T07:35:26.181-08:00Thoughts of the dayI can't believe that we would Lie in our graves Wondering if we had Spent our living days well I can't believe that we would Lie in our graves Dreaming of things that we Might have been Inspiration in the form of my favorite band. Just think about this, i feel that if we are not living our lives out of the love of Christ, forgetting about the world around us, then we are doing nothing but lying Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-64148442730508477032010-10-06T14:39:00.000-07:002010-10-06T14:52:02.613-07:00Back Where I Come FromAs I sit and enjoy the crisp, fall breeze, i am reminded of being "back where i come from". THe phrase stems from a country song that i really enjoy, but nonetheless Kenny Chesney is not the point of this blog. Although he may be in the future. Sometimes I have learned that "back where I come from" may not always be the best place for me. God has placed in us a longing for home, but really is Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-69753108924709280332010-08-11T18:07:00.000-07:002010-08-11T18:09:15.767-07:00I hate this ol' place and what it representsI hate who i was and who i ended up sinceJoshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-64091428383238093572010-08-10T14:48:00.000-07:002010-08-10T14:54:54.498-07:00Preveiw of the coming weeksTime to get back into the world of blogging after a prolonged absence...i need it, it needs me...therefore its time to go. Been real contemplative over the past month, its time to release it. Start with a preview upon some topics. 1. Life is Unpredictable, but girls are predictable. 2. There is no such thing as a magic city (well, maybe atlanta) 3. Slaving myself out by letting others define who Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-49865103507879668282010-04-14T12:19:00.000-07:002010-04-14T12:40:44.582-07:00Traversing the unforeseen futureLearning to trust God with your entire life is one of the most difficult things to accomplish. I always hold back parts of my life, or try and take control of them as i cannot see God's plan. I see nothing but a dark emptiness of a future, where i can see nothing....except for the next step by the light of God's lamp of direction and guidance. It feels helpless and at times i just wanna grab the Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-34185679691539077672010-03-29T19:53:00.000-07:002010-03-29T19:55:34.201-07:00It's not about giving to God (doing) to receive things from Him, it's about receiving from God in order that we might give to others (his love)We give our lives to God, all of it, but our actions aren't given in order to receive, they are given in order to serve.Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-46258386713670949832010-03-12T20:27:00.000-08:002010-03-12T20:42:55.791-08:00Healthy FearThe thoughts on sin and the repercussions they bring has really burdened me this whole year. Probably due to my own sins that have been the same sins for several years now. They say God punishes the wicked, this is true, but God also warns the righteous (and wicked). Go has been tossing signs at me left and right in regards to refraining from certain sins that have held me back from intimacy withJoshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-85878374415305319342010-02-24T12:44:00.000-08:002010-02-24T16:56:33.731-08:00Thoughts from IsaiahThinking about the book of Isaiah, the early chapters has brought some interesting thoughts to my brain, thanks to this quote "It is through wealth power and control of ones destiny that human beings become great" Why do we insist on trying to become gods (great), and not rest in the one true God? Looking across the global scape of humanity, it is apparent to me that most people live their lives Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-59692028449897410562010-02-23T07:03:00.000-08:002010-02-23T07:21:48.883-08:00Galatians 3Having begun by the Spirit are you now being perfected by the flesh?I really hope that i NEVER feel that i am perfected by the flesh. We are saved by our faith, and we receive the Spirit by faith. Why would we ever think that we are perfected by doing good works? Perfection comes through Christ, we cannot be perfect until we pass from this earth, where our sanctification will be complete. Is it Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-23267352940264785202010-02-04T12:33:00.000-08:002010-02-04T12:35:49.914-08:00QT on evangelism and teaching.It's not about how we are saved, it is about WHO we are saved by.Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-78624202654634390262010-02-04T05:37:00.000-08:002010-02-04T06:02:45.999-08:00the Christ of all?After reading Galatians 2 and seeing the way that Peter acted amongst believers, his actions did not appall me. He was eating with the gentiles, apparently as they were and in their tradition, yet when James returned he quickly left and ignored them and went back to the Jews (Christian Jews). The reason that his actions did not appall me: because it was MY actons that appall me. I do the same Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-58916444340907947102010-01-20T19:49:00.000-08:002010-01-20T20:20:57.439-08:00Becoming a Cool Monk (or Galatians remix pt 2)Finishing the first chapter of Galatians has brought to the surface a former (and constant) desire that i have had to become a monk, at least temporarily. Monks seclude themselves from the world in cloister of solitude where they meditate on God and are filled with the knowledge and mystery found in God. This sounds attractive to me, yet i dont think i could make it more than a month, check that,Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-6246556746621208492010-01-19T11:42:00.000-08:002010-01-19T12:11:40.892-08:00Galatians L.C.'s remix pt1Galatians 1:10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am i trying to please man? If i were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.As i let the fullness of this statement sink in, my mind is filled with thoughts that i don't want to entertain, let alone admit. Luckily, few people read this, let alone know who i am, as i write under a pseudonym. The Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-41022740467972565422010-01-13T21:24:00.001-08:002010-01-13T21:43:32.692-08:00Baptism is thus the death of our selfishness and self-sufficiency and it is the "likeness of Christ's death", because Christ's death is the unconditional self-surrender. Alex ShmemannThis quote has made me think about the life i lead and the ways i live. I am selfsih and self sufficient. I have lost the denial of my self that i need. Who am I to live a life that is not my own, Who am I to controlJoshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-44638451621314242262009-10-30T12:03:00.000-07:002009-10-30T12:08:01.687-07:00Thoughts on a friday15If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames. 1 Corinthians 3:15I dont want to escape the flames....i want to live a life built upont the foundation of Christ. Sin holds me back, i want it to be purged from my depraved personhood. Only Christ in my life, not other idols or sin.26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-50200036558376584562009-10-12T13:23:00.000-07:002009-10-12T13:37:11.676-07:00Haze of SinIt seems to me that sin gain be like a haze that slowly creeps in and eventually turns into a permeating fog that impairs your vision and direction spiritually. It normally starts with some possibly innocent actions that turn into a flaming passion for the desire of an action that takes us from God and places us into the idolatry state with said action. This haze of an initial wandering from God Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-32005133638175381672009-09-16T17:02:00.000-07:002009-09-16T17:13:11.398-07:00ChristReading Crazy Love has steadily changed my heart. The latest thing that has convicted/gripped me is something that i have heard and thought upon, but not thought critically upon. Living our lives for Christ. What does that mean? It means many things, but the one that really truck me was found in Matthew 25 when Christ talked about serving the least of these and that if you do not serve the least Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-17551322123177188382009-08-24T11:49:00.000-07:002009-08-24T11:58:27.259-07:00Reading Francis Chan's "Crazy Love" has really made me think about my love for God, but more importantly, His love for me. Over the years, I (as well as most men) experience the desire to approach a woman in courtship and we desire to love them. Many times (or should i say most of the time in my case), these girls choose to reject a man's offering to a dating relationships. This is how our Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-39939068798687941102009-08-22T18:13:00.000-07:002009-08-22T18:22:17.521-07:00Who am I to choose my own direction? WHo am i to choose what i desire over what God wants? Why do i so often choose my own self-interests, my own will and my own desires over the perfect and awesome plan of God that he has for me. So many times i choose to do my own thing, i choose to do what i want. I want to be what i want to be. What a horrible view of life. I need to be who God desires me to Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-11732035054221955122009-08-04T12:46:00.000-07:002009-08-04T12:57:34.008-07:00You. I need more of. Me. I need less of.Incomplete without you, Complete with you.Broken.Whole.Weary.Rested.Helpless, broken, beaten down, empty, totally depraved, nature of sin, devoid of joy, separated, incapable of good, selfish, lost.redeemed, whole, healed, filled, power over sin, full of vibrant joy, united, righteous, selfless, found.words....all just words. one word: indescribable....Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-81863667615387774192009-07-26T12:04:00.000-07:002009-07-26T12:34:16.849-07:00What is the Christian life? Is it about accepting a savior and living a life above reproach? Becoming a christian and living a christian life is about believing in Christ, reading the bible, praying at dinner and when we are in need, and living our lives as obedient servants in following the laws and rules of the bible to the best of our ability. It is alos important that other people know you Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36201598.post-20547071384198174812009-07-02T16:59:00.000-07:002009-07-02T17:01:01.625-07:00Lyrics from a song i enjoy.i enjoy these words, maybe for the pain it brings, but nonetheless it is part of my journey....one that i spite so often.Love and Memories- OARLovely, you're always lovelyA vision You were the one Now I am stuck inside a memory You forgot about our destiny You buried me Didn’t you? Didn’t you love me faster than the devil Run me straight into the ground Drowning deep inside your water Drowning Joshua Blounthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661418419576098098noreply@blogger.com0