When Pinterest first hit the scene, it was fascinating. Writers like this Christian reporter on Examiner found ourselves pinning away and creating boards just like the rest of the general public – as well as finding geeky and only slightly legal ways to beef up our followings by auto-following other users whom we hoped and prayed would return the favor and follow us back. As far as pins that were related to Christian stuff, however, well those tended to end up segregated to boards on Pinterest called “Christian stuff,” as if we were giving our followers fair warning that a reference or two or 20 to John 14:6 might be found therein. Read More:
These Are the Top Trends for 2015 According to Godinterest
Godinterest has revealed trends it predicts will dominate in 2016.
The list has been compiled by Godinterest’s insight team, which gleaned the most popular trends that saw considerable month-over-month increase in interest on the platform.
Here’s a quick overview of the topmost trends in the 10 categories.
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Self Interest as God’s Interest
We are initially informed of #God’s interest by the expression of gratification in the creation of man, and as subsequently manifested by his association with man.
While reflecting on the magnitude of creation the Psalmist was constrained to exclaim,
“When I consider the heavens the work of thy fingers, and the stars which thou has ordained, what is man that thou art mindful of him? Psalm 8:4-6 King James Version (KJV).
Sometimes in our earthly mind, the awesomeness of God is lost.
Galatians’¬ ’5’¬:’25’¬ If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Isn’t God interested in every part of our lives, not just the spiritual part. So if we believe that we should live by the Holy Spirit’s power, we need then to submit every aspect of our lives to God, emotionally, physically, socially, intellectually and vocationally.
See below for a roundup of some of the most touching photos posted on Godinterest this month.
….Washed White as Snow | ANNA WAKUMOTO I Had Spent the Last 6 Years of My Life Looking for Fulfillment in All the Wrong Places. Every Place That the World Told Me Would Seemingly Satisfy Me Did Just the Opposite. I Covered up My Anger…
….On Aging | Laura’s Recovery . to Live Is to Be Slowly Born – Antoine De St Exupery the Purpose of Human Experience Is to Grow Us into God. It Is So We Can Melt into God as We Go – to Expand. We Are Either Expanding or Collapsing…
…Living and Learning at Home: Ultimate Guide to Keeping Young Children with You at Church…
…Trust No Man”¦That Is No Man, Woman, or Child! | Coco Chanel’s Ministry…
…What Does It Mean to Worship?? Throughout My Entire Life I Have Been to Four Churches. Destined Ones Ministry, First Baptist of Hammond, Words of Encouragement Ministries, and Unity Church. I Can R…
…Israel – Photo by Photographer Leon Forado – Photo.net (Photo.net) Photograph by Leon Forado…
Paul says that because we’re saved, we should live like it! The Holy Spirit is the source of our new life’s, so keep in step with its leading. Don’t let anything or anyone else determine your values and standards in any area of your life.
God’s interest in humility goes beyond our comprehension. Jesus took off the robes of Deity, and put on the robes of humanity, then died on a cross just for us, because He loves us so much; so we could have communion with him, and so we could spend eternity in with Him, when we accept Him as our Lord and Saviour.
When we abide in God, when we are one with Him, we can literally ask whatever we want and He will do it for us (John 15:7).
What Would Jesus Pin?
The phrase “What would Jesus do?” (often abbreviated to WWJD) became popular, particularly in the United States but elsewhere as well, in the 1990s and as a personal motto for adherents of Christianity who used the phrase as a reminder of their belief in a moral imperative to act in a manner that would demonstrate the love of Jesus through the actions of the adherents.[
In popular consciousness, the acronym signifying the question–WWJD–is associated with a type of bracelet or wristband which became a popular accessory for members of Christian youth groups, both Catholic and Protestant, in the 1990s.[
Theological background
The Roman Catholic Church emphasizes the concept of Imitatio Christi (imitation of Christ), which is summarized well in the English phrase “What Would Jesus Do?”
The phase What would Jesus pin? was coined in 2014 with the relaunch of Godinterest.
John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, in 1766 postulated the concept of Christian perfection, a moment in the life of a Christian at which the regeneration effectuated by the Holy Spirit results in a “perfection in love” which means that at least at that moment one is being motivated wholly by love of God and neighbor, with no taint of sin or ulterior motives in effect. While such Christian perfection is expressed in outward action, it is also the effect of grace. Indeed, Wesley could speak of sanctification by faith as an analogous doctrine to the more widely held belief in justification by faith. Because Christian perfection is also visible in outward good works and a rigorously moral lifestyle, adherents of the Holiness movement assumed that a perfectly moral lifestyle is a consequence (not the cause) of the state of grace and ultimate salvation.
Earlier appearances of the term, 1420s—1891
Charles Spurgeon, a well-known evangelical preacher in London, used the phrase “what would Jesus do” in quotation marks several times in a sermon he gave on June 28, 1891.[5] In his sermon he cites the source of the phrase as a book written in Latin by Thomas à Kempis between 1418 and 1427, Imitatio Christi (The Imitation of Christ).
