Isaac Deitz Working out my faith through writing.
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What pulled me into Christianity?
A friend asked me “what pulled you into chritianity? im not religious or anything.. just curious” on Formspring, I don’t know if Formspring allows so many characters to properly answer that question. So I’ll answer here. If I explain it Biblically and simply, I would say that it was God that pulled me into [...]
My Summer in 4,500 Characters
(This is the longest blog I’ve ever written, don’t say I didn’t warn you) A lot of people have been asking how I have been doing. I’ve always wanted to be honest and transparent with people. So when they ask, I can’t go to the default “good” when I answer. But to tell you [...]
Prideful lack of self-esteem.
I don’t know how to really start or end this blog: The lack of self-respect comes from your pride. The reason you lose respect for yourself is because you keep thinking “I can do better, I can do better”. My friends, no you can’t. You cannot do better. When you just got [...]
Land of Milk and Honey Bunches of Oats
In the story of Moses, the plagues and Pharaoh. Moses kept pleading with Pharaoh to “let God’s people go” so they may serve the LORD and give sacrifices to Him. When Moses asked this, Pharaoh not only didn’t let them go but he made them work harder. Which made all the Israelites despise Moses, [...]
Swimmers and Sinners
I don’t believe that one sin is what condemns us. I don’t believe it’s that one time you lusted in your heart or stole that candy bar that sends us to hell. I have a close friend that believes God condemns us for eternity for metaphorically running one stop light, he says, “God is [...]
My Incomplete Thoughts of Heaven
When it comes to ambiguity, people prefer to fill in their own blanks. They can’t be satisfied with blanks. If God says something is good, we need to decide in our heads what is good and what is bad. I personally hate dark chocolate and coffee, which I am aware of a lot of people [...]
Where can I buy some Gopher Wood?
So a few blogs back I mentioned how I wanted to dedicate my whole life to God, but I felt like I was missing something. I mentioned a quote that says “one man 100% dedicated to God can do more for the kingdom than one-hundred men 99% dedicated to Him.” I felt 90% dedicated and [...]
What Makes Us Closer to God?
Anyone that knows me well enough knows that I had a point in my life that I would consider my ‘spiritual peak’, it was when I felt the closest to God, and it wasn’t just emotion, it was because the fruits of the spirit were evident in my life. I have had the privilege of [...]
Lost in the Details
I have realized that in the past year or two I have been seeing God as manageable and smaller than actually He is. Basically it’s like I am playing in the sand and I dug a hole and filled it with water. I look at it and think, “I can get to know a [...]
The Question Everyone Should Ask Themselves
A friend of mine asked me a great question today. I asked them if it would be alright if I answered in a blog. They said yes. (If you didn’t figure it out, that’s what this blog is going to be about). My favorite blogs to write are the ones where I sit [...]
Fish Out of Water
When buying a goldfish it’s important to take the plastic bag you brought it home in and place it in the tank water for a few hours so the water temperature in the tank and the bag are the same and it prevents shock to the fish. God says it’s important for people to [...]
My Incomplete Ball of Clay
Last night I told my good friend that I desperately wanted to give God 100% of me. I wanted to live 100% for God. Because I have done it before and that is when I had the most joy and peace in my life. The problem I explained was that I am giving him around [...]
Ashamed of the Gospel
Christians are always told to “never be ashamed of our faith”. I agree. But I think sometimes we aren’t ashamed to tell people what we believe but we are ashamed to love them. Maybe a huge part of our gospel is love. Maybe we shouldn’t be ashamed to do the loving thing when we [...]
Opposite of Love
The opposite of love isn’t hate, but it’s loving yourself more than someone else. Love is how we follow God, how we get to know God and how we learn from God. Anything less than love isn’t God. “He who does not love, does not know God, for God is love” It’s easy to start [...]
Jesus Isn’t Looking for Friends. He’s Looking for Followers.
It’s a parents dream to be their kid’s friend, to get along with them and talk about anything. Sometimes parents try so hard to be a friend that they forget to give the kid some loving correction or discipline because they know their kid won’t like being disciplined. They let their kids just do anything [...]
Staring Contest with a Statue
Every time I sin, I always try to remember that God loves me. In fact I have been really learning that God loves me no matter where I am in life. Jesus ate with sinners, hookers, tax collectors and outcasts. I believe he still does. I think to believe in Jesus, is to believe that [...]
The Common Cold
This is my first short film, I filmed and wrote last year, but I just released this yesterday: “The Common Cold”: or Watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/tubopopcorn I did an interview with “The Advocates of Love” about this film, you can read that interview here:http://advocatesoflove.blogspot.com/ Thanks, I hope you enjoy! your [...]
Hope is More Than a Clever Presidential Campaign
I get a lot of texts, emails and phone calls from friends, blog readers and fans of the bands I work with, asking me to pray for them or asking me advice on a certain spiritual subject. After a few years I have started feeling overwhelmed with all of this, hearing some depressing stories or [...]
Finding a needle in a stack of needles.
It’s funny how easily someone can spot a fake. I guess what I mean it is hard to spot a fake in a crowd of fakes. Just like it’s harder to find a specific needle in a stack of needles. When looking for a needle in a hack stack all you have to do is [...]
Forgiveness vs. Justification. Please God vs. Please people.
Love God and love people, the two greatest commandments. I never realized until recently how important that order is. I have always known that loving God first is important, but I thought that it’s just as important to love people. But we should love people out of our love for God. If you love [...]
The Box
This guy had a box and he carried it around with him for years and all his neighbors got a little curious. “What’s in the box?” they asked one another. Some said it was candy, some say it was his childhood toys but they all wanted to open it to end the mystery. The [...]
To love people we need to stop being afraid of them.
I worked at an after school program with a lot of inner city kids. It was great, I played pool with the kids, went skateboarding and hung out with them every Monday and Wednesday. Eventually through our friendship they trusted me with their thoughts and struggles and I was able to show them God’s love [...]
Cross My Heart
Sometimes when I go to church I hear people talking about ‘always looking towards the cross’ and always thinking about what Jesus has done for us. I am not always thinking of the cross and Jesus’ death. When I hear people say that they do it makes me think that I am doing something wrong, [...]
Love is Not a 9-5 Job. [It's a full time job]
Why are we surprised that we lost 3.6 million jobs since the recession started, when we send all our jobs to China? How I was raised I learned that if you take your lemonade stand out of neighborhood #1 and put it in neighborhood #2, you shouldn’t be surprised if neighborhood #1 no longer [...]