Noriega has a Blogger
profile
His blogroll includes Be My Muse, Coffee and Kids, Justified By
Faith (his own blog), The Gospel
Coalition, and TheResurgence
Be My Muse is a blog
that is linked to at the blog Redeemed By
His Grace
Now for those who
remember this:
http://marshill.com/2012/02/13/a-response-regarding-church-discipline...
This blog entry was
posted on February 20, 2012 at 10:51 AM
http://redeemedbyhisgrace.blogspot.com/2012/02/thankful-for-being-right.html
Monday, February 20,
2012
Thankful for Being Right
We have had a pretty hard week, probably the hardest since
September. It’s like we finally ripped the Band-Aid off an old wound to find
out the wound hadn’t healed and now was exposed to the air and stings anew.
In the recent turn of events I have wanted to respond, to state
the truth, to be heard, to be justified. My inability to do so has left me
hurting and angry. The scenarios of how I can set the record straight have
played out a thousand different ways in my head, how the conversation would
sound or the email would read. Instead, I have stomped my feet and shaken my
fists. I have wanted this injustice righted and acknowledgement of wrong-doing.
In my spinning, the lovely Mr. redirected me to the only real
truth that counts…the gospel. That in my weakness His strength has been
perfected; the real injustice of Jesus on the cross and my need to be right was
perfected in His rightness. My need for other’s to see this rightly or us
differently was causing me to focus on me and not my need for Him. That my
peace and joy was being dictated by how other’s perceived us or the situation
and not on the truth that it can only come from God and I already possess both.
My peace and joy are not dependent on anything; actually they are the two
things I can count on with 100% certainty.
Even though in this particular scenario I could point fingers and
be cleared the truth is that I have a long list of sin and wrong-doing that I
am in fact guilty of. I can set my list up and then evaluate the “severity” of
the sins and then focus on how I have been wronged rather than my own
wrongdoing because those are less severe. Thankfully, that is not how the
gospel works. I stand as guilty in my sin as the murderer without the cross.
The cross however says that because Jesus stood in my place as the guilty one,
I am as justified and righteous as the murderer. Only the cross has the ability
to declare this as truth not my list of injustice, pain, incorrect facts, etc.
I am so very thankful that I can rest in this truth. I can stop
spinning and scheming and playing it through my head. I am free to just rest in
the presence of my Lord who cleared my name long ago. Lord please continue to
give me this strength in my weakness, that my spinning would be an instant
reminder of my need for you and that I can just stop and rest.
Posted by Redeemed by Grace at 10:51 AM
In the blog roll for
this blog is the following blog and post title:
Be My Muse
An Unused Wedding Dress The blog title “An
Unused Wedding Dress” is a dead link.
In the November 1, 2011
blog post we see reference to shopping with her daughter for wedding
dresses. The following blog entry
Kaitlyn Noriega wrote on October 26, 2011 includes the following:
If James Noriega refers
to “Andrew” in his 2011 tweets; if his stepdaughter refers to “Andrew” as her
fiancée in a blog entry on October 26, 2011; if James Noriega’s own tweets
indicate an ongoing role at Mars Hill Ballard in 2011; and multiple
attestations from the Seattle P-I establish Noriega had remarried and had a
stepdaughter this is a convergence of evidence which suggests that many key
claims in Andrew’s story are not only accurate, they are accurate enough to
identify key parties in his disciplinary situation on the basis of purely on-record
materials in on-line newspapers, blog posts, tweets, and Mars Hill sermons.
That James Noriega was
let go for a pattern of overstepping spiritual authority is an inferential case
for an outsider, but it’s an inferential case with at least some circumstantial
evidence, not least of which are blog entries and tweets by members of the
Noriega family themselves.
