Ryan
24 years old
Phoenix, AZ
Male
About
I was recently married to Jill Renee Boender(now Patrick) in December. I'm in my last year of college. I live in phoenix. We are all following someone's teaching or thoughts on life whether it's somebody else or ourselves. Since the more I follow me, the more confused I get and the more unfair life seems, I figured out that the more I listen to Jesus Christ's teaching, the more life makes sense and the more this life becomes tangible and real.(Rob Bell said it first, but he said it well so...) Also, I do not attend "Current" or RMCC. Finally, life is usually pretty smooth but...ah...sometimes...
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Sep 8, 2007
Who are you?
I am part of the elect, the chosen, the Saints ordained, the foreknown, the predestined. Because of this I am loved beyond measure, and have been made righteous, holy, justified, sanctified and without blemish before God at all times. Therefore I may boldly go before …
Pictures
Open Range, Shooter, Stranger than Fiction, The lady in the Water, The Village, The Quiet Man, An Unfinished Life, Tombstone, Dumb and Dumber, Heavy Weights, Back to the Future series, Little Miss Sunshine, 8 Seconds, The Departed, The Rear Window
Ensembles
Punch Brothers!; Blue Grass...to all Worship, country, classic jazz, Big Band, Folk: Don MClean, James Taylor, Nora Jones, Coldplay, The Infamous Stringdusters, Gaelic Storm, Chris Thile and recently, the young Sufjan Stevens as well as other stuff...too many great genres and musicians out there.
Tube
This Old House Hour, The Office, MacGiver, Motor Week, Mash, Dirty Jobs, New Yankee Workshop, Myth Busters, Seinfeld, Doug, Hour, 24
Literature
As a great man once said "But beyond this, my son, be warned: the writing of many books is endless." Nevertheless I can't get enough theology in me or practical books about who we are as Christians and Church. Dallas Willard, John Lynch, Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol, Jerry Bridges, Rob Bell, Wayne Grudem
Jake, Jan 17, 2008:
Requiem
Jake, Jan 14, 2008:
Next time I go to Costco I should buy us some of that Dunkin Donuts coffee...I wonder if it's as good as it is in their restaurants
Jake, Jan 14, 2008:
Wayne Wayne Wayne Wayne!!!!
Evan Brightly, Dec 17, 2007:
Chris Thile is incredible. Good choice man.
Jake, Sep 13, 2007:
What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?
Ryan, Sep 11, 2007:
This is absolute truth; which is the foundation of all things.
Jake, Sep 11, 2007:
Here is an interesting discourse about the Gospel being Doxological (i.e. worship, praise): "Underneath every sin is idolatry, and underneath idolatry is always some form of "works/self-salvation project. Because whenever you make something more important than God that thing is essentially a savior of yours. The first commandment is that you've got to believe the Gospel--you can't look to anything else for your justification--and that is the basis for every other sin. Everything from eating disorders to racism is a self-salvation project, a failure to believe the Gospel, and some form of idolatry. You've either made an idol of thinness or an idol of your race and your blood. And if that's the case, if your heart is adoring and doting on something other than God, than the only way anybody ever gets changed is through worship." (Tim Keller quoting and expounding upon Martin Luther's Larger Catechism).