Isaac Deitz Working out my faith through writing.
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Stop Getting Offended All the Time, Idiot.
Christians are so worried about not offending other people that it’s starting to get really offensive. We want our Christian music, movies, TV, radio, comedians, coffee shops, gyms and summer camps. So much that we don’t even want to know that the world is suffering, maybe because the idea of a loving God and a [...]
Love is My Secondary Language (it should be my first)
Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve written a blog. I almost forgot the password to the login site to edit this. Then I just thought of N’sync and remembered my password!! Anyway, I’m really not sure how to start this blog. I’m sure there are a lot of blogs that start with “I’m not [...]
Father, Save Me From This Heart.
The past months I’ve been living my life by obligation and not inspiration. What I mean by that is I would read my Bible, pray, etc. only because I feel that I need to, an obligation. But this applied to every other aspect of my life as well, like my art, filmmaking, job and everything [...]
Another Blog About Its a Wonderful Life
I know I havent written in a while. I had a bunch of ideas for some blogs that I didnt write, I feel like Gods been teaching me a lot, not in a hey Isaac, check this out but more of a hey Isaac! Stop being an idiot type of way. So a lot of [...]
Deliver Us From Evil
Christianity makes so much sense to me when I look at the claims of the Bible and the world starts making a whole lot more sense in those lenses. I think a lot of people trying to disprove Christianity start with small things like “how many angels really were at the tomb” and stuff. But [...]
Faith is belief in action.
There are times I don’t feel God. Right now has been one of those seasons. It’s been less depressing as before because I know my salvation isn’t based on whether or not I feel God. But I hate being like this. It’s like writers block for a writer, everything that defines him is currently [...]
Divorcing God
I have a good friend that has recently told me that he isn’t a Christian anymore. That he doesn’t believe in Jesus. I’ve heard this many times before from close friends and family even. But something he said stood out to me. It may have been the reason why he lost his faith in the [...]
Christian Entertainment
Christian entertainment: A borderline oxymoron. Christianity is about dying to yourself and entertainment is defined as “affording pleasure”. You might be thinking, “are you saying that Christians can’t be entertained?” my response is absolutely not! But I am saying that we shouldn’t be entertained in the ways we seek it out. Let me make my [...]
Samson’s Hair (part 2) Chuck E. Cheese and Jesus Christ
There are a lot of healthy fears that we have, for example a fear of heights tells me to be careful when I am up on something high so I don’t easily fall. A fear of cars can teach us not to drive like an idiot, not to cross the street when one is coming [...]
Samson’s Hair
[These are honest questions asked with genuine reverence and some honest frustration] “Though he slay me, I will hope in him; yet I will argue my ways to his face” – Job 13:15 “Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in [...]
The New Guy
The church is filled with liars, thieves, cheats, gossips and selfish hypocrites. Isn’t that beautiful! Why am I so eager to debate that? It’s the truth, I used to see it as the tragic truth, but it’s the beautiful truth of the Gospel that Jesus died for liars, thieves, cheats, gossips and selfish people. I used [...]
“Been There, Done That” -Jesus
Chassidic master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev once said: I learned the meaning of love from a drunk. I once passed two drunks drinking in a gutter and overheard the following conversation between them: Drunk #1: “I love you!” Drunk #2: “No you don’t.” Drunk #1: “Yes, yes, I do. I love you with all [...]
The Story of “Search for Joy: Kenya”
Written by me, but taken from SearchforJoy.org When I was a little kid, all my friends were saying they wanted to be police officers or basketball stars and I trumped them with the more ‘Christian answer’: Missionary. I’ve always heard stories of Husdon Taylor, Amy Wilson Carmichael and so many others. They were heroes to [...]
Strawberries, Water and Other Addictions
We are creatures of habit and we grow fond of what is familiar to us. I have a few theories on habits and addictions. About 5 years ago I gave up soda for an entire month. Which was hard for me because I drank soda all the time. After skateboarding, tons of exercise [...]
40 years in the desert leads to sunburn itch.
If I could learn anything in the world. From History, Math, Science to how to fly a plane or how to get girls to like me. I’d pick the Gospel. If I could know the Gospel, the true Gospel, but not just know it, but have it engrained into my heart and being. I think [...]
From a powerful canon to a fragile egg.
Ok, here we go. So a lot of people love to add onto God’s personality. Which is, what I believe, the reason there are a lot of haters and unbelievers, besides the fact that Jesus said, “there’s gonna be some haters, because of me” (paraphrased). So when you add or take away to God’s [...]
Pills and Idols
The older I get the more sermons and the less music I listen to. It’s kind of weird. When I’m skateboarding through the streets with earbuds in, I look like a hoodlum that is probably listening to sex-cular music with loud drums and whatnot, but a lot of the time I’m listening to a sermon [...]
God Shouldn’t be Product Placement (or why Christian films suck)
I’m a Christian that makes films, though I haven’t made any blatant “Christian films” yet. I actually do plan on it. Everyone knows that Christian films are horrible. Christian as a genre in any art is usually a little more lacking than secular art. But in the film industry it’s especially bad. Why is that? [...]
This is the Blog You’ve Been Waiting For
Sometimes If I haven’t written a blog in a long time. I feel the need to make the next blog really epic, like “This is the Blog you’ve been waiting for”. I think we do this with prayer all the time. When our prayer life has been horrible, we think “when I start praying [...]
The Most Expensive Five-hundred Bucks
A friend of mine recently broke up with his girlfriend because he did something that he couldn’t allow his girlfriend to forgive him for. He wanted to be punished for his actions and breaking up with her was a way of him punishing himself. He planned to ask her back out “with a clean slate” [...]
What Pulled Me Into Christianity (pt. 2)
(This is the second response to my friend with very honest questions, I asked if I could post my replies but I’m keeping his private, but I think my replies are pretty stand-alone) To read Part 1: http://isaacdeitz.com/2011/01/what-pulled-me-into-christianity/ A lot of people either lose their faith or reject the faith because of other people’s [...]
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 [...]