Sunday, August 29, 2010
Grace
Good quote I heard a long time ago, wrote on a sticky note and posted on a bulliten board above my computer. "The will of God will never take you where the grace of God will not protect you." and this part I added to it from a teaching by Bob Caldwell: "Always live on the edge of grace."
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Faith of All Mankind
Every man lives in a state of faith.
But you might say only the religious, those that believe in God, a higher power, etc live in a state of faith. But I would reason that every man, atheist or christian, has faith in what he may not know. Men that believe in eternal life are criticized for a "blind faith" into that which they do not know. But may I also add that men that argue that life ends at the grave, that God and eternal life do not exist must also exercise faith in their belief? Can we know for a fact, in man's limited knowledge of the workings of our universe, that life must cease when our bodies do? That would require all knowledge, scientific proof...proof that we do not have.
Christians, on the other hand, have proof. We have a witness that have been to the grave and back, who holds eternal life. The very resurrection of Christ proves this and the reality is that there is life beyond the grave. It sets the kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ apart from any other in all of history. No other man, moral or not, has risen from his death and then offered that to his followers. This is the good news for all of mankind. Faith is simply the position in which you have found yourself, whether with the Lord God Almighty or without Him. Either way its your choice. It's your declaration of faith. Where does your faith lie? In the Truth.. or in Darkness?
But you might say only the religious, those that believe in God, a higher power, etc live in a state of faith. But I would reason that every man, atheist or christian, has faith in what he may not know. Men that believe in eternal life are criticized for a "blind faith" into that which they do not know. But may I also add that men that argue that life ends at the grave, that God and eternal life do not exist must also exercise faith in their belief? Can we know for a fact, in man's limited knowledge of the workings of our universe, that life must cease when our bodies do? That would require all knowledge, scientific proof...proof that we do not have.
Christians, on the other hand, have proof. We have a witness that have been to the grave and back, who holds eternal life. The very resurrection of Christ proves this and the reality is that there is life beyond the grave. It sets the kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ apart from any other in all of history. No other man, moral or not, has risen from his death and then offered that to his followers. This is the good news for all of mankind. Faith is simply the position in which you have found yourself, whether with the Lord God Almighty or without Him. Either way its your choice. It's your declaration of faith. Where does your faith lie? In the Truth.. or in Darkness?
Monday, April 5, 2010
Quote Anthology
I have found that I have far too many good quotes and need to put them all somewhere. So thus begins the chronicling of quotations. Some are from movies, some from pastors and some are from friends, and each one delicately weaves together a pattern of beauty and truth:Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers. --J. Sidlow Baxter
(Talking about disputes among believers) "I think Christianity is the only people that arranges its firing squads in circles. -Chuck Missler
"Tears are proper for believers, indeed they should be all the more copious, for christians are more sensitively aware of every emotion, whetether of joy or of sorrow, than those who have known nothing of the softening and enlivening grace of Christ." (gotten from an alistair begg teaching, but quoted from alec mc----?)
"I just want to be a Nobody, willing to tell Everybody,
that there is Somebody, who can save Anybody."
"You like boats but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There’s a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You’re a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. You’re very generous. You’re kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow, you look like an angel." Phil Conners (Groundhog Day)
"We've cheated death again, John" -Me
"Why then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having... The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that, they must be free."
-C.S. Lewis
To wrestle with God does not mean that we have lost faith, but that we are fighting for it. Sheila Walsh
It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.- Sandy Adams
Don't waste good problems.- Otto Koning (missionary to
It is love that marks a true Daughter of the King!
Just enjoy Jesus.- Jon Courson
It only takes a spark to get the fire going. - K.P. Yohannan
"Kath-r-RYN!" -John Schuessler
"Of course I want John back... I want God more..." -Laura Ritchie
Travel light.- Gayle Erwin
"There is no cure for laziness, but a large family helps." -Herbert V. Prochnow
"I listen to some of you guys out there, hyper-reformed boys, you're concerned if you preach the gospel to the wrong person, the wrong person might get saved. So you don't want to preach it too good, 'well wait a minute, I don't think you should've been getting saved, I'm not sure you're in the group.' What do you mean in the group! If you breathing you're in the group! If you have ears to hear you're in the group! And if you choose not to respond it's your own fault, not God's." -Alistair Begg
Just teach the Bible.- Jack Abeelen
"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things, ‘above all that we ask or think’. Each time, before you Intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!" -Andrew Murray
If it is dangerous to do God's work, how much more dangerous is it to leave it undone. - Sabina Wurmbrand
Snoring is the sweetest sound on earth, ask any widow - Elisabeth Elliot
Wait, weren't we rebuking something? -Mitchell Welch, on the way back from the OneThing08 conference in the line for Taco Bueno (long story).
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him."
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" --- Hudson Taylor
When men divide the body of Christ, who bleeds? Disagree agreeably and don't divide. Churches should be complementary, never competing. -Chuck Smith
Just find where God's going and follow. -Chuck Smith
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
Mousetrap, I wanted to play Mouetrap. You roll your dice you move your mice....nobody gets hurt. -Bob the Tomato, The Toy that Saved Christmas
I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure. -Eric Liddle
(Talking about disputes among believers) "I think Christianity is the only people that arranges its firing squads in circles. -Chuck Missler
"Tears are proper for believers, indeed they should be all the more copious, for christians are more sensitively aware of every emotion, whetether of joy or of sorrow, than those who have known nothing of the softening and enlivening grace of Christ." (gotten from an alistair begg teaching, but quoted from alec mc----?)
"I just want to be a Nobody, willing to tell Everybody,
that there is Somebody, who can save Anybody."
"You like boats but not the ocean. You go to a lake in the summer with your family up in the mountains. There’s a long wooden dock and a boathouse with boards missing from the roof and a place you used to crawl underneath to be alone. You’re a sucker for French poetry and rhinestones. You’re very generous. You’re kind to strangers and children, and when you stand in the snow, you look like an angel." Phil Conners (Groundhog Day)
"We've cheated death again, John" -Me
"Why then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having... The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that, they must be free."
-C.S. Lewis
To wrestle with God does not mean that we have lost faith, but that we are fighting for it. Sheila Walsh
It takes a whole Bible to make a whole Christian.- Sandy Adams
Don't waste good problems.- Otto Koning (missionary to
It is love that marks a true Daughter of the King!
Just enjoy Jesus.- Jon Courson
It only takes a spark to get the fire going. - K.P. Yohannan
"Kath-r-RYN!" -John Schuessler
"Of course I want John back... I want God more..." -Laura Ritchie
Travel light.- Gayle Erwin
"There is no cure for laziness, but a large family helps." -Herbert V. Prochnow
"I listen to some of you guys out there, hyper-reformed boys, you're concerned if you preach the gospel to the wrong person, the wrong person might get saved. So you don't want to preach it too good, 'well wait a minute, I don't think you should've been getting saved, I'm not sure you're in the group.' What do you mean in the group! If you breathing you're in the group! If you have ears to hear you're in the group! And if you choose not to respond it's your own fault, not God's." -Alistair Begg
Just teach the Bible.- Jack Abeelen
"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things, ‘above all that we ask or think’. Each time, before you Intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!" -Andrew Murray
If it is dangerous to do God's work, how much more dangerous is it to leave it undone. - Sabina Wurmbrand
Snoring is the sweetest sound on earth, ask any widow - Elisabeth Elliot
Wait, weren't we rebuking something? -Mitchell Welch, on the way back from the OneThing08 conference in the line for Taco Bueno (long story).
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him."
"God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply" --- Hudson Taylor
When men divide the body of Christ, who bleeds? Disagree agreeably and don't divide. Churches should be complementary, never competing. -Chuck Smith
Just find where God's going and follow. -Chuck Smith
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot
Mousetrap, I wanted to play Mouetrap. You roll your dice you move your mice....nobody gets hurt. -Bob the Tomato, The Toy that Saved Christmas
I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast. And when I run I feel His pleasure. -Eric Liddle
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