Quotes Nov 21

To know how to be hungry is a sharp lesson, but to know how to be full is the harder lesson after all. So desperate is the tendency of human nature to pride and forgetfulness of God!”- Charles Spurgeon

God's word, does not teach us a contrast between nature and grace, that is  contrast between the nature of God's creation and the redemption in Christ Jesus. It teaches only and exclusively the radical uncompromising antithesis of sin and redemption, of the realm of darkness and the kingdom of God in Christ. - The christian idea of the state, Herman Dooyeweerd, p 5

I doubt whether it is generally realised that the centre of gravity of the Christian is very rapidly moving away from the Anglo-Saxon world.- Harold H Rowden, Turning the church inside out, P. 24

1. 0 little flock, fear not the Foe
Who madly seeks your overthrow;
Dread not his rage and power.
What though your courage sometimes faints,
His seeming triumph o'er God's saints
Lasts but a little hour.

2. Be of good cheer; your cause belongs
To Him who can avenge your wrongs;
Leave it to Him, our Lord.
Though hidden yet from mortal eyes,
His Gideon shall for you arise,
Uphold you and His Word.

3. As true as God's own Word is true.
Not earth nor hell with all their crew
Against us shall prevail.
A jest and byword are they grown;
God is with us, we are His own;
Our victory cannot fail.

4. Amen, Lord Jesus, grant our prayer;
Great Captain, now Thine arm make bare,
Fight for us once again!
So shall Thy saints and martyrs raise
A mighty chorus to Thy praise,
World without end. Amen.
Hymn #263 The Lutheran Hymnal, Johann M. Altenburg, 1632, Translated by: Catherine Winkworth, 1855, alt.Titled: "Verzage nicht, du Haeuflein klein"