I have been reading “Fight Clubs - Gospel-Centred Discipleship” lately and it has been a very revealing read for me. I just wanted to share something from it that impacted me…

“All too often, our online identity is very different from our offline identity.Our Facebook status projects what we want others to think of us, not who we truly are. Our blog posts are shrouded in airs of intellectualism or edginess. We all face the temptation to project a false image of ourselves because we find the real image inadequate. If we are honest, the real image is nowhere near as attractive as we want it to be. We want to be more beautiful, more successful, more creative, more virtuous, more popular, and more intelligent than we actually are. We all have an image problem. The problem, however, is not that we lack beauty, success, creativity, virtue, popularity, or intelligence. The problem is that we believe the lie that obtaining those images will actually make us complete, happy, and content people.

Believing the lie, we fight rigorously to obtain (or retain) our image of choice.

We discipline ourselves to lose weight, climb the vocational ladder, learn

new techniques, make moral decisions, and strive to be in the know, all to

gain the image we so desperately want. The image we believe will make us

truly happy, content, and complete. We will fight with whatever it takes—

money, time, sacrifice, overworking, and the occasional white lie. We fight

and scrap to obtain our desired perception. Why? Because we believe that

being perceived a certain way will make us truly happy. We believe a lie.

We express faith in what is false. We depend on the undependable. Once

we realize that we are building our identity on things that are untrue and

unreliable, we can begin to sink our identity into what actually is true and

reliable. This kind of image building moves us towards Jesus.”

- Jonathan Dodson (Fight Clubs)

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fire by the river on a friday night.

Fusion Young Adults Bonfire Night.

‘But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner’s fire and like fuller’s soap’ - Malachi 3:2

there is a light that never goes out…

j. tillman - cancer and delirium.

i like this album. alot.

i have been spinning it a fair bit lately. its really sparse and haunting with often no more than just his voice. if you havent heard him, track it down. its worth it.

on a similar note, he has a song called under the sun. he simply sings “under the sun” and “this soon shall pass”. just repeats those lines.

i thought that was pretty fitting.

under the SON. this soon shall pass.

this world is temporary. we are merely passing through. everything in this world will pass away. we aren’t home yet.

“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also put eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end” -Ecclesiasties 3:11

we were made for something far greater than just this. eternity.

for Him. x

i think my favourite thing about having an iPhone is the camera. no matter where i am if i see something cool i just rip it out and i have a sweet photo. this is one of the first shots i took. its the brisbane cbd skyline.  

for him. forever.  x