God has made His children, by adoption, nearer to Himself than the angels. The angels are friends of Christ; believers are His members - Thomas Watson.
Look back and thank God
Look forward and trust God
He closes doors no man can open and
He opens doors no man can close....-Unknown
Through God we can turn our endings into beginnings. –Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God’s grace rarely operates according to our schedule.- Tim Keller Wisdom @DailyKeller
Talent is formed in stillness; character, in the storms of the world. –Wolfgang Goethe
Showing posts with label grace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grace. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 February 2017
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.-Euripides, 480 - 406 BC
There is a covenant, ... and God is faithful to His
covenant. But the substance of that covenant is all pure mercy
and grace. If men presume to claim for themselves, upon the
basis of the covenant, some relationship with God other than
that of the sinner needing God's grace, the covenant has been
perverted. And where that has happened, God, in the sovereign
freedom of His grace, destroys these pretensions, calls "No
people" to be His people, breaks off natural branches and
grafts in wild slips, filling them with the life which is His
own life imparted to man. There is no law in His Kingdom save
the law of pure grace. That is why they come from east and west
to sit down with Abraham and Isaac, while the sons of the
Kingdom are cast out; for the sons of the Kingdom have no place
there unless they are willing to sit down with all whom the
Lord of the feast shall call, and to receive His mercy in
exactly the same way as the publicans and sinners.-Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God, London, SCM Press, 1953, New York: Friendship Press, 1954, p. 90-91
There is a covenant, ... and God is faithful to His
covenant. But the substance of that covenant is all pure mercy
and grace. If men presume to claim for themselves, upon the
basis of the covenant, some relationship with God other than
that of the sinner needing God's grace, the covenant has been
perverted. And where that has happened, God, in the sovereign
freedom of His grace, destroys these pretensions, calls "No
people" to be His people, breaks off natural branches and
grafts in wild slips, filling them with the life which is His
own life imparted to man. There is no law in His Kingdom save
the law of pure grace. That is why they come from east and west
to sit down with Abraham and Isaac, while the sons of the
Kingdom are cast out; for the sons of the Kingdom have no place
there unless they are willing to sit down with all whom the
Lord of the feast shall call, and to receive His mercy in
exactly the same way as the publicans and sinners.-Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998), The Household of God, London, SCM Press, 1953, New York: Friendship Press, 1954, p. 90-91
Friday, 19 November 2010
Let us determine by God's grace to forgive, even as we hope to be forgiven. This is the nearest approach we can make to the mind of Christ Jesus. This is the character which is most suitable to a poor sinful child of Adam. God's free forgiveness of sins is our highest privilege in this world. God's free forgiveness will be our only title to eternal life in the world to come. Then let us be forgiving during the few years that we are here upon earth.~ J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1985], 240, 241.
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.-John R. W. Stott
Happiness is a great love and much serving.-Olive Schreiner
Grace is love that cares and stoops and rescues.-John R. W. Stott
Happiness is a great love and much serving.-Olive Schreiner
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Do we desire to grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ? Do we wish to make progress in our religion, and become strong Christians, and not mere babes in spiritual things? Then let us pray daily for more faith, and watch our faith with most jealous watchfulness. Here is the corner-stone of our religion. A flaw or weakness here will affect the whole condition of our inner man. According to our faith will be the degree of our peace, our hope, our joy, our decision in Christ's service, our boldness in confession, our strength in work, our patience in trial, our resignation in trouble, our sensible comfort in prayer. All will hinge on the proportion of our faith. Happy are they who know how to rest their whole weight continually on a covenant God, and to walk by faith, not by sight.~ J.C. Ryle, Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1985], 238, 239.
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, but never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out.- Dwight L. Moody
In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God I am what I am." He remained silent a short time and then said: "I am not what I ought to be. Ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor that which is evil, and I would cleave to that which is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon I shall put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Though I am not what I ought to be, what I wish to be, and what I hope to be; yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was--a slave to sin and Satan! I can heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge--By the grace of God I am what I am!" Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.- William Plumer, "Sinners Saved by Unmerited Kindness"
What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, but never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out.- Dwight L. Moody
In his old age, when he could no longer see to read, John Newton heard someone recite this text, "By the grace of God I am what I am." He remained silent a short time and then said: "I am not what I ought to be. Ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor that which is evil, and I would cleave to that which is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon I shall put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Though I am not what I ought to be, what I wish to be, and what I hope to be; yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was--a slave to sin and Satan! I can heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge--By the grace of God I am what I am!" Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God.- William Plumer, "Sinners Saved by Unmerited Kindness"
Saturday, 6 November 2010
It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace, wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.- D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
To him that chose us first,
Before the world began;
To him that bore the curse
To save rebellious man;
To him that form'd
Our hearts anew
Is endless praise
And glory due.
The Father's love shall run
Through our immortal songs;
We bring to God the Son
Hosannahs on our tongues:
Our lips address
The Spirit's name
With equal praise,
And zeal the same.
Let every saint above,
And angel round the throne,
For ever bless and love
The sacred Three in One;
Thus heav'n shall raise
His honors high,
When earth and time
Grow old and die.
Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Hymns and Spiritual Songs [1707], in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, ed. Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834, book III, hymn 39, p. 494-495
In Christ, as a great storehouse, lie all the riches of spiritual wisdom, the massive ingots of solid gold which when coined into creeds and doctrines are the wealth of the Church. All which we can know concerning God and man, concerning sin and righteousness and duty, concerning another life, is in Him Who is the home and deep mine where truth is stored... The central fact of the universe and the perfect encyclopedia of all moral and spiritual truth is in Christ, the Incarnate Word, the Lamb slain, the ascended King.- Alexander MacLaren
To him that chose us first,
Before the world began;
To him that bore the curse
To save rebellious man;
To him that form'd
Our hearts anew
Is endless praise
And glory due.
The Father's love shall run
Through our immortal songs;
We bring to God the Son
Hosannahs on our tongues:
Our lips address
The Spirit's name
With equal praise,
And zeal the same.
Let every saint above,
And angel round the throne,
For ever bless and love
The sacred Three in One;
Thus heav'n shall raise
His honors high,
When earth and time
Grow old and die.
Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Hymns and Spiritual Songs [1707], in Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, ed. Samuel Melanchthon Worcester, Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834, book III, hymn 39, p. 494-495
In Christ, as a great storehouse, lie all the riches of spiritual wisdom, the massive ingots of solid gold which when coined into creeds and doctrines are the wealth of the Church. All which we can know concerning God and man, concerning sin and righteousness and duty, concerning another life, is in Him Who is the home and deep mine where truth is stored... The central fact of the universe and the perfect encyclopedia of all moral and spiritual truth is in Christ, the Incarnate Word, the Lamb slain, the ascended King.- Alexander MacLaren
Monday, 18 October 2010
Peace if possible, truth at all costs. ~Martin Luther
Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture ~Martin Luther
Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds.~John Owen
Peace is but an illusion when Truth is scourged for the sake of it.~Joel Schaible
Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen that they cannot lift the axe of justice, so corrupt that they cannot change their own natures, so averse to God that they cannot turn to Him, so blind that they cannot see Him, so deaf that they cannot hear Him, and so dead that He Himself must open their graves and lift them into resurrection. -G.S. Bishop
Let the man who would hear God speak read Holy Scripture ~Martin Luther
Free will is corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds.~John Owen
Peace is but an illusion when Truth is scourged for the sake of it.~Joel Schaible
Grace is a provision for men who are so fallen that they cannot lift the axe of justice, so corrupt that they cannot change their own natures, so averse to God that they cannot turn to Him, so blind that they cannot see Him, so deaf that they cannot hear Him, and so dead that He Himself must open their graves and lift them into resurrection. -G.S. Bishop
Friday, 15 October 2010
As I have said,countless sinners truly experience the saving grace of Jesus Christ and the transforming power of the Holy Spirit when their notions about both are erratic and largely incorrect - J.I. Packer
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. - Francis Schaeffer
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. - Francis Schaeffer
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. - Francis Schaeffer
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. - Francis Schaeffer
Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched. - Francis Schaeffer
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. - Francis Schaeffer
Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves. - Francis Schaeffer
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result. - Francis Schaeffer
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes— that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens— that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their courses. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebud is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence— the fall of sere leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.- C. H. Spurgeon
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage- John Newton
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school. ~Winston Churchill
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue . . . let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.- William Wilberforce
It is the endeavor of an evil man to quench a great deal of good for a little ill; but Christ cherishes a little grace though there be a great deal of corruption, which yet is as offensive to Him as smoke to us, therefore we should labor to gain all we can by love and meekness.- Richard Sibbes
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage- John Newton
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school. ~Winston Churchill
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue . . . let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.- William Wilberforce
It is the endeavor of an evil man to quench a great deal of good for a little ill; but Christ cherishes a little grace though there be a great deal of corruption, which yet is as offensive to Him as smoke to us, therefore we should labor to gain all we can by love and meekness.- Richard Sibbes
Friday, 3 September 2010
The dark night of the soul always gives way to the brightness of the noonday light of the presence of God. - R.C. Sproul
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) _The Poet at the Breakfast Table_ [1872]
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. --John Locke (1632-1704) _Some Thoughts Concerning Education_ [1693], Section 1
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin. --Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) _Disciples Indeed_ [1955]
We have but a very few sins which we can observe and detect, compared
with those which are hidden to ourselves and unseen by our fellow
creatures. I doubt not it is true of all of us who are here, that in
every hour of our existence in which we are active, we commit tens of
thousands of unholinesses for which conscience has never reproved us,
because we have never seen them to be wrong, seeing we have not studied
God's laws as we ought to have done. .... Let all of us who know our
sins, offer this prayer after all our confessions: "Lord, I have
confessed as many as I know, but I must add an etcetera after them, and
say, 'Cleanse thou me from secret faults.'~ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon 1834-92, Sermon (No. 116) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 8, 1857, at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens.
Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) _The Poet at the Breakfast Table_ [1872]
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. --John Locke (1632-1704) _Some Thoughts Concerning Education_ [1693], Section 1
Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin. --Oswald Chambers (1874-1917) _Disciples Indeed_ [1955]
We have but a very few sins which we can observe and detect, compared
with those which are hidden to ourselves and unseen by our fellow
creatures. I doubt not it is true of all of us who are here, that in
every hour of our existence in which we are active, we commit tens of
thousands of unholinesses for which conscience has never reproved us,
because we have never seen them to be wrong, seeing we have not studied
God's laws as we ought to have done. .... Let all of us who know our
sins, offer this prayer after all our confessions: "Lord, I have
confessed as many as I know, but I must add an etcetera after them, and
say, 'Cleanse thou me from secret faults.'~ Rev. C. H. Spurgeon 1834-92, Sermon (No. 116) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, February 8, 1857, at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens.
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
We crave the velvet touch of grace for our own battered lives but instinctively want to hammer the struggling lives surrounding us with law.- Matt Redmond
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.- Alan Keyes
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. - Anthony Brandt
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding, and social peace. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927 - 2003
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929 - 1994
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families, sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much. - Russell Baker
Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.- Alan Keyes
The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed, how many betrayals there may have been, how much misery in the family: We remain connected, even against our wills. - Anthony Brandt
The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996
The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men collectively. The whole of society rests on this foundation for stability, understanding, and social peace. - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1927 - 2003
The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 1929 - 1994
I worry about people who get born nowadays, because they get born into such tiny families, sometimes into no family at all. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope Diamond. And that encourages you to talk too much. - Russell Baker
Saturday, 21 August 2010
To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect. -John Owen
A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency. —Arthur W. Pink
I should count a life well spent, and the world well lost, if, after tasting all its experiences and facing all its problems, I had no more to show at its close, or to carry with me to another life, than the acquisition of a real, sure, humble, and grateful faith in the Eternal and Incarnate Son of God.-P. T. Forsyth
Jesus once declared that God is "kind toward the unthankful
and evil" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on
this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who
simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this
astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of
constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and
proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were
defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous
injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I
only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are
part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His
unremitting love towards mankind.-J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Making Men Whole, London:Highway Press, 1952, p. 27-28
A consciousness of our powerlessness should cast us upon Him who has all power. Here then is where a vision and view of God's sovereignty helps, for it reveals His sufficiency and shows us our insufficiency. —Arthur W. Pink
I should count a life well spent, and the world well lost, if, after tasting all its experiences and facing all its problems, I had no more to show at its close, or to carry with me to another life, than the acquisition of a real, sure, humble, and grateful faith in the Eternal and Incarnate Son of God.-P. T. Forsyth
Jesus once declared that God is "kind toward the unthankful
and evil" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on
this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who
simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this
astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of
constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and
proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were
defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous
injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I
only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are
part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His
unremitting love towards mankind.-J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Making Men Whole, London:Highway Press, 1952, p. 27-28
Thursday, 15 July 2010
16 Jul 10
No eye has seen and no ear has heard
and no mind has ever conceived
the glorious things that you have prepared
for everyone who has believed.
You brought us near and you called us your own,
and made us joint heirs with your Son.
How high and how wide,
how deep and how long,
how sweet and how strong is your love;
how lavish your grace, how faithful your ways,
how great is your love, O, Lord?
Objects of mercy who should have known wrath,
we’re filled with unspeakable joy;
riches of wisdom; unsearchable wealth,
and the wonder of knowing your voice.
You are our treasure and our great reward,
our hope and our glorious King.
How high and how wide,
how deep and how long,
how sweet and how strong is your love;
how lavish your grace, how faithful your ways,
how great is your love, O, Lord?
Mark Altrogge © 1990 Integrity's Hosanna! Music/People of Destiny Int./Adm. by Kingsway's Thankyou Music.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race- Andrew Carnegie
A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God's boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it. - Dwight L. Moody
and no mind has ever conceived
the glorious things that you have prepared
for everyone who has believed.
You brought us near and you called us your own,
and made us joint heirs with your Son.
How high and how wide,
how deep and how long,
how sweet and how strong is your love;
how lavish your grace, how faithful your ways,
how great is your love, O, Lord?
Objects of mercy who should have known wrath,
we’re filled with unspeakable joy;
riches of wisdom; unsearchable wealth,
and the wonder of knowing your voice.
You are our treasure and our great reward,
our hope and our glorious King.
How high and how wide,
how deep and how long,
how sweet and how strong is your love;
how lavish your grace, how faithful your ways,
how great is your love, O, Lord?
Mark Altrogge © 1990 Integrity's Hosanna! Music/People of Destiny Int./Adm. by Kingsway's Thankyou Music.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race- Andrew Carnegie
A man can no more take in a supply of grace for the future than he can eat enough for the next six months or take sufficient air into his lungs at one time to sustain life for a week. We must draw upon God's boundless store of grace from day to day as we need it. - Dwight L. Moody
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
24 Jun 10
Faith activates God - Fear activates the Enemy.-Face Book Christian Church
Don't you get annoyed when you go to a Vuvuzela concert and they start playing soccer?-Steve Galinos
The glory of His grace." Ephesians 1:6 The glory of grace is its freeness! Grace...fixes upon objects that are most unworthy; bestows upon them the richest blessings; raises them to the highest honor; promises them the greatest happiness; and all for itsown glory. Nothing can be freer than grace! - James Smith
Worry & anxiety reflect our heart’s distrust in the goodness & sovereignty of God. Worry is a spiritual issue & must be fought with faith. We must fight to believe that God has mercy for today’s troubles &, no matter what may come tomorrow, that God will have new mercies for tomorrow’s troubles (Lam. 3:22-23). ~ Kevin DeYoun
We must not conceal from ourselves that true Christianity brings with it a daily cross in this life, while it offers us a crown of glory in the life to come. The flesh must be daily crucified. The devil must be daily resisted. The world must be daily overcome. There is a warfare to be waged, and a battle to be fought. All this is the inseparable accompaniment of true religion. Heaven is not to be won without it. Never was there a truer word than the old saying, "No cross, no crown!" If we never found this out by experience, our souls are in a poor condition.~ J.C. Ryle Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986], 202.
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Overindulgence in media and technology creates a soul that is nourished by distraction-.AlbertMohler
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Don't you get annoyed when you go to a Vuvuzela concert and they start playing soccer?-Steve Galinos
The glory of His grace." Ephesians 1:6 The glory of grace is its freeness! Grace...fixes upon objects that are most unworthy; bestows upon them the richest blessings; raises them to the highest honor; promises them the greatest happiness; and all for itsown glory. Nothing can be freer than grace! - James Smith
Worry & anxiety reflect our heart’s distrust in the goodness & sovereignty of God. Worry is a spiritual issue & must be fought with faith. We must fight to believe that God has mercy for today’s troubles &, no matter what may come tomorrow, that God will have new mercies for tomorrow’s troubles (Lam. 3:22-23). ~ Kevin DeYoun
We must not conceal from ourselves that true Christianity brings with it a daily cross in this life, while it offers us a crown of glory in the life to come. The flesh must be daily crucified. The devil must be daily resisted. The world must be daily overcome. There is a warfare to be waged, and a battle to be fought. All this is the inseparable accompaniment of true religion. Heaven is not to be won without it. Never was there a truer word than the old saying, "No cross, no crown!" If we never found this out by experience, our souls are in a poor condition.~ J.C. Ryle Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew, [Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986], 202.
Graham J Weeks M.R.Pharm.S
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http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/Christiansquoting Daily quotes
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http://www.cpaparty.org.uk/ Christian politics
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Overindulgence in media and technology creates a soul that is nourished by distraction-.AlbertMohler
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Sunday, 20 June 2010
21 Jun 10
A storm may bring chaos and cause great damage, but it also clears the air. - Selwyn Hughes (in) Jonah: God of the second chance
I have a great need for my God, I have a great God for my need. - C. H. Spurgeon
Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people – for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.- R C Sproul
Soft preaching makes hard people; hard truth produces soft people. - John MacArthur
If you want God to be supreme in your life, you have to see, and believe, and love the truth that God is supreme in the life of God...and that the root of my living for the glory of God is that God lives for the glory of God. - John Piper
I have a great need for my God, I have a great God for my need. - C. H. Spurgeon
Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our salvation. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people – for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.- R C Sproul
Soft preaching makes hard people; hard truth produces soft people. - John MacArthur
If you want God to be supreme in your life, you have to see, and believe, and love the truth that God is supreme in the life of God...and that the root of my living for the glory of God is that God lives for the glory of God. - John Piper
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