A poem by my beautiful wife: May Christ Increase.
May Christ Increase
Posted: April 28, 2012 by mgbuffaloe in American Christianity, MissionsTags: Bible, Buffaloe, God, Jesus, Lindsey, missions, Nations
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Shame for Faith 2011 Year in Review (courtesy of wordpress.com)
Posted: January 2, 2012 by mgbuffaloe in UncategorizedTags: 2011, review, wordpress, year
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,100 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 18 trips to carry that many people.
Perfect People Change the World
Posted: November 29, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in UncategorizedTags: gospel, Jesus, Mormon, people, Perfect, religious, righteousness, sinners, Westboro Baptist Church
Perfect people change the world. Perfect people dress modestly, their women stay at home, and they participate in family devotionals.
Perfect people pray several times daily, are careful about their diets, and avoid drugs and alcohol. Perfect people stand out in the world, though they live in the world, by rigorously following the law of their holy book(s). Perfect people attend religious gatherings, make religious pilgrimages to their holy lands, and go on grand missions to convert unbelievers. Perfect people stand for their rights in the public square; seek to change policies in government, and give alms. Perfect people effect great change in the world, modify history, and leave legacies of change.
The Chief of Sinners: But I Received Mercy
Posted: November 4, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in DevotionalTags: Bible, forgiveness, Glory, God, grace, Jesus, mercy, Paul, sin, Timothy
1 Timothy 1:12-17:
I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful,appointing me to his service, though formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, and insolent opponent. But I received mercy because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief, and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life. To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
The Lord judges the apostle faithful by grace alone. Paul works hard in this text to put all of this on God in Christ. In bringing up his past Paul magnifies Christ’s mercy and grace. ”If His grace is an ocean we’re all sinking”-John-Mark McMillan. ”The grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.” Continue Reading
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I See Dead People
Posted: October 28, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in American ChristianityTags: Born again, Bruce Willis, Christ, dead, Faith, Haley Joel Osment, Jesus, New birth, Sixth Sense, spiritual
“I see dead people.”
A short phrased first uttered by a young Haley Joel Osment to a younger but still old Bruce Willis in the 1999 film The Sixth Sense. Willis’ puzzled and probably creeped-out character promptly questions Osmond’s claim, “In your dreams?”
Osmond shakes his head, so Willis presses further, “While you’re awake? In graves? In coffins?”
Osmond responds, “Walking around like regular people. They don’t see each other. They only see what they want to see. They don’t know they’re dead.”
In Ephesians 2:1-3 the apostle Paul writes:
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.
Apart from Christ we are dead spiritually. Continue Reading!
Pain Disguised in a Crooked Face
Posted: October 14, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in American Christianity, PoetryTags: Hunger, Jesus loves you, Lamentations, pain, Poetry, Romans, smile, sovereignty, suffering
If a smile’s worth a thousand words,
Are there a million phrases left unsaid?
Pain disguised in a crooked face
Wrenching the corners of its mouths in place
For what?
A frown turned upside down is still a frown
By any other name
The anguish remains the same
My heart is the box
The smile is the lock
That blocks you from seeing
That I’m really seething
Or teetering, on the edge of complete insanity
But I’m a rock right?
And I can do all things
But if I’m a rock I’m sinking… Continue Reading
The Hottest Combination in Holy Hip Hop
Posted: October 13, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in Holy Hip HopTags: Cross Movement, glory of God, grace, Holy Hip Hop, Jesus, Lampmode, Lecrae, rap, Reach Records, saints, saved, Shai Linne, sin, Timothy Brindle
Whenever Reach, Cross Movement, and Lampmode drop new albums I think that all HHH fans are looking for those tracks featuring the hottest compilations. With my pick for hottest combination I do not mean to diminish the other dynamic compilations or elevate any two rappers above the glory of the God they all elevate; rather, I want to share with you the duo that blesses my socks off the most, and allow you all the opportunity to weigh in on your favorites as well.
Without further ado my pick for hottest Holy Hip Hop compilation is: You will just have to click here and find out!
I spend a lot of time at Wake Forest Coffee Company. At closing-time one summer evening the lights went down on all the boys and girls
in the shop, and like Semisonic said so well, though I did not have to go home, I could not stay there. I walked past a dozen or so high schoolers enjoying their last days of perceived freedom before the new fall semester donned, and initiated in them another 180 days of wishing their lives away until next summer. It is sad that so many millions wish their lives away as if they have an infinite supply of days.
I was walking north toward the parking lot as Morocco was walking south from the parking lot, or somewhere entirely different, and we met at the two-seat table of conversation. Taking a seat, Morocco, the warm summer night, and the very table itself all beckoned if not begged me to sit. Morocco may have a slightly different recollection of the beckoning; however, I am convinced that he, the night, and the table would have all been quite disappointed if by them I passed.
I Don’t Know Nothin’
Posted: October 4, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in PoetryTags: grace, Kingdom, knowledge, lamb, law, Lion, pharisee, religious, slain, wolves
I don’t know nothin’
When it comes to wind and waves
Mountains and valleys
Stars and the moon
But I like to think I do
Give me some facts
I’ll regurgitate them Left and right
I promise I’m right
When I write
Like splitting hairs over theology
And the like
Planned Parenthood: Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
Posted: September 29, 2011 by mgbuffaloe in Abortion, Human RightsTags: Abortion, ACLU, baby, choice, human rights, infanticide, lawsuit, life, North Carolina, Planned Parenthood, WRAL
Planned Parenthood: Life, Liberty and Pursuit
Thomas Jefferson famously penned these timeless words some 235 years ago, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
For Jefferson and the representatives of the original thirteen United States of America, the right to life was fundamental and self-evident. The language of the protection of life was also written into the preamble of the United States Constitution:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. (Italics are mine)
The Constitution of the United States was established in part to secure the blessings of freedom for the founding fathers and their posterity, i.e. us. In order to enjoy liberty one must be granted their fundamental right to live beyond womb. Earlier today WRAL reported that Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed lawsuits to overturn a new North Carolina that would at least assist in protecting a human’s right to live to see light outside his/her mother’s womb.
