Isaac Deitz Working out my faith through writing.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]