Look not back on yesterday
So full of failure and regret;
Look ahead and seek God's way--
All sin confessed you must forget.
Dennis DeHaan
RBC Ministries
January 2, 2002
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.
(Reuben Archer) R. A. Torrey
Biography and Works
January 3, 2002
So many times we say that we can't serve God because we aren't whatever is needed. We're not talented enough or smart enough or whatever. But if you are in covenant with Jesus Christ, He is responsible for covering your weaknesses, for being your strength. He will give you His abilities for your disabilities!
January 4, 2002
It's easy to follow when we want to go where the leader is taking us, but what about when He takes a turn we're not in favour of?
Lisa Barry
January 5, 2002
Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.
Francois Fénelon
January 6, 2002
You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period.
You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do.
But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset,
and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly?
He knows the shoals and the sandbanks, the rocks and the reefs,
He will steer you safely into that celestial harbour where your anchor will be cast for eternity.
Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
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A Man Called Peter, Anniversary Edition: The Story of Peter Marshall By Catherine Marshall Filled with humor, wisdom and loving detail, the powerful story of Peter Marshall's life has touched the hearts and minds of millions of people. It is a book about love - the love between a dynamic man and his God, and the tender love between a man and the woman he married. It is also the gripping adventure of a poor Scottish immigrant who became chaplain of the United States Senate and one of the most revered men in America. More Peter Marshall Resources |
It is a Gospel to men who are without God, sinful, bewildered, anxious, discouraged, self-sufficient and proud yet destroying themselves and others, caught in a desperate plight from which they cannot extricate themselves. The Bible characterizes men in such a state as "lost", and as being "without hope in the world"... And let no one suppose that such a term as "lost" is merely a bit of conventional theological jargon. It stands for a terrible reality, a reality which modern man in his modern predicament knows only too well from his own bitter experience. It gives rise to the voices of despair which haunt our radios, our newspapers, our fiction and poetry, our stage and screen, our doctors' offices, our hospital wards, our grisly nightmare of atomic war, and the conversation of common people who no sooner meet than they begin to bemoan the fate that has overtaken the world.
Lewis J. Sherrill
January 8, 2002
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there are always some obstacles in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D. Souza
January 9, 2002
No mortal man or devil can supersede the will of God for your life. If you lay hold of this truth, it will set you free. But there is only one person who can get you out of the will of God and that person is you.
John Bevere
Website
More John Bevere Materials
January 10, 2002
But what I would like to say is that the spiritual life is a life in which you gradually learn to listen to a voice that says something else, that says, "You are the beloved and on you my favour rests."... I want you to hear that voice. It is not a very loud voice because it is an intimate voice. It comes from a very deep place. It is soft and gentle. I want you to gradually hear that voice. We both have to hear that voice and to claim for ourselves that that voice speaks the truth, our truth. It tells us who we are. That is where the spiritual life starts - by claiming the voice that calls us the beloved.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
January 11, 2002
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty... acknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
January 12, 2002
Evangelical repentance is repentance of sin as sin: not of this sin nor of that, but of the whole mass. We repent of the sin of our nature as well as the sin of our practice. We bemoan sin within us and without us. We repent of sin itself as being an insult to God. Anything short of this is a mere surface repentance, and not a repentance which reaches to the bottom of the mischief. Repentance of the evil act, and not of the evil heart, is like men pumping water out of a leaky vessel, but forgetting to stop the leak. Some would dam up the stream, but leave the fountain still flowing; they would remove the eruption from the skin, but leave the disease in the flesh.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
January 13, 2002
Only he who can say, 'The Lord is the strength of my life' can say, 'Of whom shall I be afraid?'
Alexander MacLaren
Biography and Online Library
January 14, 2002
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
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The Attributes of God Volume 1 Audio Book By A.W. Tozer Here's a new dimension to an enduring classic! Now small groups, Sunday school classes, and individuals can glean greater insight from Tozer's timeless meditations on God's character---from justice to mercy to omnipresence. |
January 15, 2002
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward Beecher
Archives
January 16, 2002
I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to the load, before we are required to bear it.
John Newton
Brief Biography
January 17, 2002
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
John Bevere
Website
January 18, 2002
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words be without heart.
John Bunyan
Online Library
January 19, 2002
The 7 Modern Sins:
- Politics without principles
- Pleasures without conscience
- Wealth without work
- Knowledge without character
- Industry without morality
- Science without humanity
- Worship without sacrifice.
January 20, 2002
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
John Calvin
Biography
January 21, 2002
Rest in this-it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call, or whatever you want to call it. It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond, or what have you... The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will be the ultimate Word from God.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
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Through Gates of Splendor By Elisabeth Elliot In 1956, five young men, including Elliot's husband, traveled into the jungles of Ecuador to establish communication with the fierce Waorani Tribe. In a nearby village, their wives waited to hear from them. The news they received --- all five missionaries had been murdered --- changed lives forever. A lasting story of God's grace and great courage. 269 pages, softcover from Tyndale. |
January 22, 2002
To place ourselves in range of God's choicest gifts, we have to walk with God, work with God, lean on God, cling to God, come to have the sense and feel of God, refer all things to God.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
January 23, 2002
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
January 24, 2002
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
J. C. MacAuley
January 25, 2002
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
January 26, 2002
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified, whose conscience is pure. You are not holier if you are praised, nor the more worthless if you are found fault with. What you are, that you are; neither by word can you be made greater than what you are in the sight of God.
Thomas a Kempis
Biography and Works
January 27, 2002
Never again are we to look at the stars, as we did when we were children, and wonder how far it is to God. A being outside our world would be a spectator, looking on but taking no part in this life, where we try to be brave despite all the bafflement. A god who created, and withdrew, could be mighty, but he could not be love. Who could love a God remote, when suffering is our lot? Our God is closer than our problems, for they are out there, to be faced; He is here, beside us, Emmanuel.
Joseph E. McCabe
January 28, 2002
The progress of mankind has always depended upon those who, seemingly isolated and powerless in their own day, have seen their vision and remained true to it. In the darkening corridors of time, they preserved integral their vision of the daylight at the end. This is a matter not of calculation but of faith. Our work may be small and its results invisible to us. But we may rest assured it will come to fruition in God's good time.
John Ferguson
January 29, 2002
The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
January 30, 2002
When we won't let ourselves be held in the midst of our messes by God who loves us and made us, we miss the unspeakable joy of knowing that we are truly His beloved.
Deborah Newman
Tea Time For Your Soul
January 31, 2002
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass!
Scott Nicholson
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Restoring Relationships: The Importance of Forgiving and Being Forgiven |
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