September 1, 2005
A scuba diver takes his environment with him: he lives in the water, but he breathes the air. In the same way Christians are to be in the world, but not of the world.
Anonymous
September 2, 2005
The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when thinking about it.
Blaise Pascal
Biography
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The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent By Blaise Pascal, abridged & edited by James M. Houston Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) earned recognition as a renowned mathematician, physicist and a man after God's heart. As he came to the forefront of geometry and physics, he turned his considerable analytical abilities to study religion or, as he said, to "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man." Pascal's classic defense of Christi in his time. Today, editor James Houston has organized Pascal's meditations into a logical progression of thought that contemporary readers can enjoy in The Mind on Fire. Described as a "masterpiece of theological scholarship," The Mind on Fire also includes selections from Pascal's Letters to a Provincial, a description of his conversion in his own words. Please support this ministry site. |
September 3, 2005
Intercession [is] a complete turning...to God, a becoming one with the will of God to the point of self-sacrifice.
Walter Eichrodt
Theologian, Bible Scholar
September 4, 2005
They [the revived] begin to get a concern for the members of their own family - husband, wife, father, mother, children, brother, sister - who do not know that they are outside. They tell them about it; they feel they must. There is a constraint that is driving them. They talk about it to people, to friends and to everybody, and they begin to pray for them. Prayer is always a great feature of every revival, great prayer meetings, intercession hour after hour. They pray for these people by name and they plead, and they will not let God go, as it were.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
September 5, 2005
Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.
Arthur W. Pink
Archive
September 6, 2005
We reach a certain stage of fellowship with Christ, in spiritual apprehension and moral attainment, and find great joy in it. But this seems to fade, until we become conscious that we are called to something higher. The Lord is gone before us to prepare the next resting-place. Then everything depends upon our response. We may stay where we are, becoming more and more torpid in spirit. Or we may, in Paul's phrase, "press on." If we do this, we find the Lord meeting us and leading us to the next resting-place.
William Temple
Biography
September 7, 2005
Compassion costs. It is easy enough to argue, criticize and condemn, but redemption is costly, and comfort draws from the deep. Brains can argue, but It takes heart to comfort.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
September 8, 2005
If we try to get up warm feelings and good dispositions in order to remove some fancied remainder of distance, we shall fail; not simply because these actings of ours cannot do what we are trying to do, but because there is no need of any such effort. The thing is done already. God has brought his righteousness nigh to the sinner.
Horatius Bonar
Website
September 9, 2005
The Word of God can grow to be only a hunting-ground for texts; and we can preach, meaning intensely every word we utter, and yet in reality only lost in the moment like an actor in his part, or at least leaving it to the folk to live it out; for us, bless me, we have no time for that, but are already immersed, poor harried souls, in determining what we shall preach on next.
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
Online Article.
September 10, 2005
You can be a "Thermometer" Christian or a "Thermostat" Christian. The thermometer registers and reflects the spiritual status around it - in other words "he's not acting holy so I'm not going to". But thermostat sets the temperature for the spiritual status around it. Thermostats walk into a room and go "it's a little cold in here Lord - let's heat it up". Thermostats are change agents and affect others around them. Don't go with the flow-be a thermostat.
Clint Pascal
September 11, 2005
The clothes we wear are what people see. Only God can look on the heart. The outward signs are important. They reveal something of what is inside. If charity is there, it will become visible outwardly, but if you have no charitable feelings, you can still obey the command. Put it on as simply and consciously as you put on a coat. You choose it; you pick it up; you put it on. This is what you want to wear.
Elisabeth Elliot
Gateway to Joy
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God's Guidance: Finding His Will for Your Life By Elisabeth Elliot Life is a series of options, and your choices often affect the rest of your life. So how do you know what's the right choice? What does God want you to do, and how can you be sure you're hearing him correctly? In God's Guidance, Elliot offers you insight and observations born from a lifetime of following God's lead to show how and why God guides his children. She invites you to draw closer to God so you can walk confidently, knowing you are in his will. Complete with a study guide for personal or small group study, this practical book will inspire you to go to God for the big -- and little -- answers in life! |
September 12, 2005
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
September 13, 2005
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success quality for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.
Anonymous
September 14, 2005
Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
John Wesley
Wesley Centre
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Assist Me to Proclaim: The Life and Hymns of Charles Wesley By John R. Tyson Charles Wesley (1707-1788) was the cofounder of Methodism and the author of more than 9,000 hymns and sacred poems, including such favorites as "Hark! the Herald Angels Sing," "O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing," and "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today." John Tyson here traces the remarkable life of this influential man from cradle to grave, using rare---including previously unpublished---hymns, letters, and journal materials. As the younger brother of John Wesley, Charles was a vital partner in the Methodist revival. While often standing in the shadow of his more famous brother, Charles Wesley was arguably the founder of the Oxford Holy Club, and he actually experienced evangelical conversion three days prior to John. In Assist Me to Proclaim Tyson explores, among other things, behind-the-scenes questions about the brothers' sometimes-stormy relationship. Notwithstanding all his accomplishments as an evangelist and itinerant preacher, Charles is chiefly remembered for his startling facility at writing hymns that show God at work in almost every instance of life. His remarkable legacy endures around the world, as hundreds of Charles Wesley hymns are still sung in churches everywhere today. Assist Me to Proclaim draws a picture of a man whose fidelity to both the Church of England and the original vision of Methodism energized his remarkable abilities as a revivalist and hymn writer. Readers also get a glimpse into Wesley's heart and mind through the window of his hymn texts. This is a biography that any student of church history or hymnody will welcome. John R. Tyson is professor of theology at Houghton College, Houghton, New York. He is the author of several books, including Invitation to Christian Spirituality, Charles Wesley: A Reader and In the Midst of Early Methodism, a "Saddlebag Selection" award winner. |
September 15, 2005
Remember you are God's sword --His instrument-- I trust a chosen vessel unto Him to bear His name. In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Online Information
September 16, 2005
Teach us, good Lord, to serve Thee as Thou deservest: To give and not to count the cost; To fight and not to heed the wounds; To toil and not to seek for rest; To labor and not ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do Thy will.
Ignatius of Loyola
Biography and Online Works
September 17, 2005
As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.
William Law
Biography and Works
September 18, 2005
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility.
Jonathan Edwards
The Works of Jonathan Edwards
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The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 2 Volumes By Jonathan Edwards Discover why the fiery sermons of Jonathan Edwards sparked the Great Awakening of 1740! This 2-volume set features Edwards's most celebrated expositions, including The Freedom of the Will and The Religious Affections, plus Henry Rogers's Essay on the Genius and Writings of Jonathan Edwards --- a work you won't find in any other Edwards collection. 1958 pages total, hardcovers from Hendrickson. |
September 19, 2005
Christ is perfectly harmless so long as he is kept locked up in churches. There is always trouble when you let him out.
G. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy
Biography
September 20, 2005
Blessings hemmed with praise will not unravel.
Anonymous
September 21, 2005
Gold is poured into the furnace because it is gold and has to be refined; you do not put rubbish into that kind of furnace. Corn is threshed because it is corn, but you do not bother to do that with weeds. A diamond of exceptional beauty and quality is gong to undergo far more cutting than any other stone because the owner desires more of its beauty.
Alan Redpath
Brief Biography And Bibliography
September 22, 2005
How we need the Lord to enlighten our eyes that we may comprehend afresh the importance of prayer and know anew its value. Furthermore, we must recognize that had Satan not deceived us we would not be neglecting prayer so much. We should therefore watch and discover therein all the various wiles of Satan. We will not allow him to delude us any more in relaxing in prayer.
Watchman Nee
Website
September 23, 2005
It is excellent to seek advice about everything, but only from those with experience. It is dangerous to ask questions of the inexperienced, because they do not possess discrimination. Discrimination knows when the time is ripe, what means to employ, the inner state of the questioner, what level he has reached, his strength, his degree of spiritual knowledge and his intention, as well as God's purpose and the meaning of Holy Scripture.
Peter of Damaskos
September 24, 2005
Ingratitude denotes spiritual immaturity. Infants do not always appreciate what parents do for them. They have short memories. Their concern is not what you did for me yesterday, but what are you doing for me today. The past is meaningless and so is the future. They live for the present. Those who are mature are deeply appreciative of those who labored in the past. They recognize those who labor during the present and provide for those who will be laboring in the future.
Anonymous
September 25, 2005
Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them, day after day. What you promise today must be renewed and redecided tomorrow and each day that stretches out before you.
Arthur Gordon
September 26, 2005
Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else!
Chuck Smith
September 27, 2005
Let's face the question squarely: If television is causing people to be dissatisfied with the worship of our churches, should we change worship to be more like television - or should the splendour of our worship cause people to ask better questions about television?
Marva J. Dawn
Short Biography
September 28, 2005
As men cherish young plants at first and fence them about with hedges to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown they remove these things and leave them to the wind and weather, so God sustains His children at first with props of inward comforts, but afterwards He exposes them to storms and winds because they are better able to bear them. Therefore let no man think himself the better because he is more free from troubles than others; it is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.
Richard Sibbes
Brief Biography and Article
September 29, 2005
We all need changes. I've heard people who say, "I have no regrets about my life. If I had it to do over, I'd do it the same way again." But that attitude is way too blind and self-serving as far as I'm concerned. There is great power in confession: to ourselves, to God, to others. Owning up to our failures is the first, painful step on the road to something better.
Anonymous
September 30, 2005
Fasting is important, more important perhaps, than many of us have supposed,...when exercised with a pure heart and a right motive, fasting may provide us with a key to unlock doors where other keys have failed; a window opening up new horizons in the unseen world; a spiritual weapon of God's provision, mighty, to the pulling down of strongholds. (God's Chosen Fast)
Arthur Wallis
August 2005 October 2005
