John Thomas:
CLASS OF 2000
Monterey High SchoolClass of 2000
Lubbock, TX
John's Story
John is from Lubbock, Texas. John's schools include Monterey High School. John later attended Texas Tech University (History) .
Music John likes includes POD-Payable On Death, str8voices, Taylor Davis. Books John likes include Catching Fire, The Lord of the Rings, The Cross of Christ by John Stott. Movies John likes include The Passion Of The Christ, October Baby Movie, The Hunger Games. TV shows John likes include College GameDay, Christiane Amanpour, The Daily Show.
One of John's favorite quotes is:"“To pronounce the name of Jesus Christ means to acknowledge that we are cared for, that we are not lost. Jesus Christ is man’s salvation in all circumstances and in face of all that darkens his life, including the evil that proceeds from himself. There is nothing which is not already made good in this happening, that God became man for our good. Anything that is left can be no more than the discovery of this fact. We do not exist in any kind of gloomy uncertainty; we exist through the God who was gracious to us before we existed at all. It may be true that we exist in contradiction to this God, that we live in remoteness from Him, indeed in hostility to Him. It is still truer that God has prepared reconciliation for us, before we entered the struggle against Him. And true though it may be that in connection with our alienation from God man can only be regarded as a lost being, it is still much truer that God has so acted for our good, does it and will also act, that there exists a salvation for every lost condition. It is this faith that we are called to belief through the Christian Church and in the Holy Spirit.” — Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline, page 71.
This I pledge, and I'll take it to my death
I'll lay my life down for you and die over again
I and I, I'm not ashamed of the Most High-P.O.D
[The New Atheists] are not open or willing to go where the evidence leads, unless that evidence sustains their own naturalistic assumptions. They have covertly reduced all philosophical thought and deduction to-- ironically—faith! - Ravi Zacharias
faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence "- John Lennox
Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
"One must want God to exist in order to become a follower of Jesus, and as such, it is time for a radical rethinking of apologetics that begins where nearly all of Jesus’ pitches for the Kingdom began—with human longing"-Jeff Cook
For the best part of our wages is adversity"-John Donne
"I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not ...Expand for more
by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought." -The Lord Of The Rings
"The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure"-Martin Luther
"I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20
I will be to her a wall of fire all around, and I will be the glory in her midst." Zech. 2:5
"Every one says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive ... And then, to mention the subject at all is to be greeted with howls of anger."-C.S Lewis
"Christ is the way out, and the way in; the way from slavery, conscious or unconscious, into liberty; from the unhomeliness of things to the home we desire."-George MacDonald
"Then God, if he be good, is not the author of all things, as the many assert, but he is the cause of a few things only, and not of most things that occur to men. For few are the goods of human life, and many are the evils, and the good is to be attributed to God alone; of the evils the causes are to be sought elsewhere, and not in him."-Plato
'You are terribly loved and forgiven.'- Frederick Buechner
"Morality is by no means self-evident."- Nietzsche
"A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst!" - A.W. Tozer, "Renewed Day by Day"
"And that Lord, who had led me thitherward,
Said unto me: "Fear not; because our passage
None can take from us, it by Such is given. "-Dante's Inferno
""For those afflictions of the soul; consider that God intends that to be as a Sacred Temple for himself to dwell in and will not allow any room there for such an inmate as grief; or allow that any sadness shall be his competitor. And, above all, if any care of future things molest you, remember those admirable words of the Psalmist, ‘Cast thy care on the Lord, and he shall nourish thee.’ To which join that of St. Peter, ‘Casting all your care on the Lord, for he careth for you.’ What an admirable thing is this, that God puts his shoulder to our burden, and entertains our care for us, that we may the more quietly intend his service!"-George Hubert".
More about John:""Our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner."-C.S Lewis
"In the Law we find the foundation for Christ.
In History we find the preparation for Christ.
In Poetry we find the aspiration for Christ.
In the Prophets we find the expectation of Christ.
In the Gospels we find the manifestation of Christ.
In Acts we find the propagation of Christ.
In the Epistles we find the interpretation of Christ.
In Revelation we find the consummation of Christ."
I am married to an awesome wife and have a son and daughter whom both make me forget about my work day as soon as iwalk in the door. I love them both!!".
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