Saturday, Mar 31, 2007

March 31, 2007

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The man who does not learn to wait upon the Lord and have his thoughts molded by Him will never possess that steady purpose and calm trust, which is essential to the exercise of wise influence upon others, in times of crisis and difficulty.
D. E. Hoste

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Friday, Mar 30, 2007

March 30, 2007

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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood become a matter of life and death to you.
C. S. Lewis

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Thursday, Mar 29, 2007

March 29, 2007

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Make sure the thing you’re living for is worth dying for.
Charles Mayes

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Wednesday, Mar 28, 2007

March 28, 2007

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I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need.
Spurgeon

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Tuesday, Mar 27, 2007

March 27, 2007

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Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ’s gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
J. I. Packer

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Monday, Mar 26, 2007

March 26, 2007

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Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance.
C. S. Lewis

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Saturday, Mar 24, 2007

March 24, 2007

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Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.
J. Wilbur Chapman

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Friday, Mar 23, 2007

March 23, 2007

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Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
C. H. Spurgeon

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Thursday, Mar 22, 2007

March 22, 2007

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You will never be the person you can be if pressure, tension, and discipline are taken out of your life.
Jones G. Bilkey

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Wednesday, Mar 21, 2007

March 21, 2007

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A small but always persistent discipline is a great force; for a soft drop falling persistently hollows out hard rock.
Isaac from Syria

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Tuesday, Mar 20, 2007

March 20, 2007

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Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
John Wesley

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Monday, Mar 19, 2007

March 19, 2007

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How else but through a broken heart may the Lord Christ enter in.
Oscar Wilde

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Saturday, Mar 17, 2007

March 17, 2007

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Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,
but only empties today of its strength.
Charles H. Spurgeon

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Friday, Mar 16, 2007

March, 16, 2007

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Lord grant that the FIRE of my heart may melt the lead of my feet.
Unknown

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Thursday, Mar 15, 2007

March 15, 2007

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The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life. –
James L. Christensen

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Wednesday, Mar 14, 2007

March 14, 2005

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The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father. There is something exceedingly improving to the mind in a contemplation of the Divinity. It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity.
C. H. Spurgeon

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Tuesday, Mar 13, 2007

March 13, 2007

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Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.”
Matthew Henry

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Monday, Mar 12, 2007

March 12, 2007

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The less a man knows,
the more he thinks he knows.
The more he really does know,
the more he realizes his ignorance and his limitations.
- H. A. Ironside

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Saturday, Mar 10, 2007

March 10, 2007

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They are the happiest Christians,
who have the lowest thoughts of themselves,
and in whose eyes Jesus is most glorious and precious.
John Newton's Letters


Deuteronomy 10:12-13 what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the LORD's commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good?

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Friday, Mar 09, 2007

March 9, 2007

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We all know far more of the Bible—than we practice.
The head is far in advance of the heart.
It is no easy thing to be a Christian—however easy it is to be called one.

- John Angell James

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Thursday, Mar 08, 2007

March 8, 2007

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The truth will set you free. The truth will be victorious when what we teach and believe is based on adequate grounds. We have every reason to be confident about what we believe because it is reality.

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Wednesday, Mar 07, 2007

March 7, 2007

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People today are confused about happiness. That is because we define happiness by how we feel. If happiness is a sense of pleasure I feel, then most of us are not happy most of the time. And since our feelings have become so important to us we focus on them constantly, thus setting ourselves up for certain defeat. But Jesus defined happiness as the satisfaction of knowing that we have developed Christ like character and we have succeeded in pleasing God and are living for a purpose and meaning larger than ourselves. The key to happiness in this definition is self denial, to quit focusing on ourselves and our feelings and to begin living for God and for others. With that focus, the feeling of happiness will find us.
Dr JP Moreland

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Tuesday, Mar 06, 2007

March 6, 2007

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In our society there is a crisis of meaning – people today have lost hope that there is meaning so they’ve turned to happiness to fill the void, and that just isn’t working out. It has produced emptiness and futility. People are filled with pessimism and purposeless because they don’t know where they have come from and where they are going. If all there is is what we have here, then there is not much to live for. The answer is Jesus.
Dr JP Moreland (loose quote)

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Monday, Mar 05, 2007

March 5, 2007

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The disciples of Christ, like their Lord and Master, often feel themselves alone. The season of sickness, the hour of bereavement, the period of trial, is often the occasion of increased depression from the painful consciousness of the solitude and loneliness in which it is borne. The heavenly way we travel is more or less a lonely way. We have at most but few companions. It is a "little flock," and only here and there we meet a traveler, who, like ourselves, is journeying towards the Zion of God… If, indeed, true religion consisted in mere profession, then there were many for Christ. But if the true travelers are men of broken heart, poor in spirit, who mourn for sin, who know the music of the Shepherd's voice, who follow the Lamb, who delight in the throne of grace, and who love the place of the cross, then there are but 'few' with whom the true saints journey to heaven in fellowship and communion.
- Octavius Winslow

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Sunday, Mar 04, 2007

March 4, 2007

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Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather let yourselves be cheated?
1 corinthians 6:1, 7

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Saturday, Mar 03, 2007

March 3, 2007

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In short, I will preach it, teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept , or ate with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

a loose quote from - Martin Luther

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Friday, Mar 02, 2007

March 2, 2007

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"Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is."
Charles Spurgeon

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Thursday, Mar 01, 2007

March 1, 2007

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If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.
C.S. Lewis

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