Isaac Deitz Working out my faith through writing.
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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 [...]
The Gospel According to Rest Stop Bathrooms.
When I was a kid, I would go on vacations with my family and it seemed that at every bathroom break rest stop, my mom would always say “everyone use the bathroom”. Even if I haven’t got an ounce of urine in me, she would insist on me going. “I don’t need to go to [...]
Trade everything you know for the knowledge of grace.
Jesus said, “whatever you do unto the least of these you do unto me” then he talks about how people have visited him in prison, fed him when he was hungry, clothed him when he was naked, and cared for him when he was sick without knowing they were doing it unto him. He then [...]
This week I didn’t see God…
This week I didn’t see God… But I did see old friends reconcile after four years of not talking. I did see a father show loving affection to his handicapped son that may never be able to show love back. I did see the light hit the moisture in the air just right to display [...]
The Gospel of Grammar
The term gospel has become a pronoun, a word that refers to something else. Sure it means the ‘good news’ but even then, what is the news? What is this news they are referring to? Anyone that has read more than 12 sentences of mine know that I am not so much of a [...]
If God had a Facebook…
If God had a facebook I think a lot of people would add Him as a friend, just because it’s almost socially un-accepted if they didn’t [even if they weren't being honest with themselves]. I think a lot of people would use His wall to promote their CD’s, bands, books, blogs, twitters, and anything else [...]
Jesus has become a dirty word.
As you may have assumed from my poor grammar, I usually just write blogs quickly and post them. I give it one proof-read and then post. I normally don’t do much re-writing in my blogs if I ever do, it’s just re-writing a paragraph here or a sentence here. This is my fourth time [...]
My response to a thought-provoking comment.
On my last blog, “The Tightrope and the Net”, I talked about how the Law of God is like a tightrope, the more we focus on it, the more likely we are to fall. But when we have the forgiveness of Jesus, it’s like a net under us, knowing that if we fall, he is [...]
The Tightrope and The Net
The law of God is like a tightrope. We walk it knowing we need to get to the other side, but get so nervous about falling that it actually makes us fall. Jesus is the safety net underneath the tightrope. We walk it knowing that we may fall, but we are safe, [...]
Filtered Doggy Water
Since I moved to Atlanta I noticed at certain gas stations you can find a collection of Hispanic people waiting on the curb, hoping to find random freelance work. As I was driving I was thinking of ways to show God’s love to them. They probably experience a lot of racial tension from the locals, [...]
Slugs and Bugs. Cats and Clouds. [learning things through the charge of a camera battery]
Just about a week ago, through some really miraculous blogable instances, I bought my first professional video camera. I cannot even express how excited I was and still am about this. I have been filming tadpoles, beetles, clouds and moons in time lapse [high-speed], lizards, spiders on their webs, dragonflies, wake boarders, etc. [I haven't [...]
Stupid drivers. Smart God.
I was at a toll-booth in the middle of Atlanta rush hour traffic. The driver two cars in line ahead of me put their money in the dish and drove up to the lift gate only to find out they didn’t put in all the needed change. After almost a minute of sitting there I [...]
Stop Signs At Night
I was driving at 2am tonight and came to a stop sign, I admit I didn’t come to a full stop but I slowed down enough to see whether or not there were any cars, but it was a ghost town, there were none. It reminded me of my sunday school teacher I had [...]
I Write Blogs, Because I Know Nothing.
“Those who talk, don’t know and those who know, don’t talk” -Lao Tzu* I write blogs for the same reason a student writes a research paper: not to teach, but to learn. I have always learned from writing out my thoughts and ideas. I have also learned a ton from the responses and replies [...]
So, does this mean my Bible can be a tax write-off?
For about a half of year I didn’t watch one movie. My logic behind that was; interaction with people, without outside forms of entertainment, never compare to movies. For example, the most I have ever laughed wasn’t from a movie but from hanging out with friends. In fact the less outside forms of entertainment my [...]
The Spider and The Web
One time I felt like I was going through a spiritual detox. It’s when everything you thought you knew and thought you believed just gets flipped upside down. It’s not the most fun place to be in, sometimes it can bring you to tears and make you loose all purpose in life. I remember [...]
A Failed Success Story
What inspires me most is not the profound or well-worded. It’s the most honest and transparent. When people truly share themselves is when I learn. I hardly learn from someone that only shares the things of their life they are proud of. Every exciting moment needs a backstory. The story of a kid [...]
Paper and Plastic
In attempts to learn more about God and constantly keep my thoughts occupied with love. I assume that getting rid of my cell phone, my internet, itouch and whatever else that can be a distraction from just constantly thinking about God. But it’s not always what you own but what you do with it. [...]
Waterproof Drawings
So out of the Ten Commandments I think the one that seemed to fit the least to me is ‘honor the Sabbath’. I mean it seems like ‘don’t kill’, ‘don’t steal’ and ‘don’t commit adultery’ seem to make sense in “God’s most important commands” [as they seem, but really aren't*], but that one always seemed [...]
Right Place, Right Time.
I know a lot of blogs start with “I looked up at the stars” but I have no other way to start this: I looked up at the stars and thought about how huge a star really is and how far away they all are from each other. I thought about how a [...]
Facebook Slogans
I have been thinking that Facebook needs a few slogans to advertise it more, here are my top 10: 10. Making birthday wishes come true…if your birthday wish is to have 150 comments of the same thing. 9. Stalking is the new pink. 8. We let you know what other people also said about [...]
World Changing Janitors
I was on set for a TV pilot a few days ago and I really felt right at home, I knew what needed to be done, how to do it, what things were called and it was great. When I am on film sets I start to feel incredibly fulfilled, it could be because I have [...]
The Ugly Forrest
While taking a stream hike I had to climb the knocked-over rotting trees, through the crumbled rocks and boulders that have fallen and I look up and see the beauty of the forrest. After taken a second look I realized that I was looking at dead rotting trees, water I cannot drink and defeated broken [...]