Monday, February 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
"Satan's speciality is psychological warfare. If he can turn us on God, others, or ourselves, we won't turn on him."
Saturday, March 10, 2007
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed,
saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from
me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."
-- Matthew 26:39 (ESV)
Every true prayer has its background and its foreground.
The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for
a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for
the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet,
earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be,
should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus
in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape
death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong,
the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of
God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of
the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission
which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there
be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an
expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the
uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are
there together, the special desire resting on the universal
submission, the universal submission opening into the special
desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.
... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
God in His providence has not allowed the survival of
actual physical objects. But we have infinitely more than
this, for instead of dead relics, however "authentic" and well
preserved, we have a living life-line, stretching unbroken to
Christ Himself. We have all the comfort and security that
comes from historic tradition, but instead of being given the
sad nostalgia of looking at an object and saying, "Look, how
wonderful! This is what He touched then," we are given an
evergreen memorial [in communion] which says,
"This is what He
touches now."
J. B. Phillips (1906-1982), Appointment with God
[1956]
Monday, February 19, 2007
“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.” | |
tom krause |
Sunday, February 18, 2007
the LORD'S love never ends;
His mercies never stop.
they are new every morning;
Lord, Your loyalty is great.
i say to myself, "the LORD is mine,
so i hope in Him."
the LORD is good to those who hope in Him,
to those who seek Him.
lamentations 3:22
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