As we grow older in life, years somehow seem to shorten and New Year's Day approaches with an ever increasing tempo. The more mature we get, the more we realize that time is only relative; how we live means more than how long we live. Haply also we do not live by years, but by days. In His wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a new year to live it day by day. What is past is past. Today we start anew, and what we do today will make our life for tomorrow. Chin up, shoulders straight, eyes agleam, let us salute the New Year, and each day let us follow more faithfully, more courageously, more daringly the lead of our great Captain who bids us follow Him.
William Thomson Hanzsche
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When I Lay My Isaac Down: Unshakable Faith in Unthinkable Circumstances By Carol Kent When God calls us to lay down the place, ministry or even the person we love most on the sacrificial altar, how will we respond? When her only son committed murder Carol Kent was forced to lay the person she valued most, or her "Isaac," in the hands of God. Fortunately, like Abraham before her, in the midst of her terrible sacrifice Carol encountered the God who loves her more than she loves her Isaac and she learned, little by little, to trust her Isaac to His caring hands. If you or someone you love is in the process of laying down an "Isaac," you will find Carol's heart-wrenching story and godly guidance absolutely indispensable. |
January 2, 2003
In accord with the Redeemer's command and assured of His presence, we are going forth to those lands where Satan has established his dark domain. I know that suffering awaits me. But to bear the Redeemer's yoke is an honour to one who has felt the Redeemer's love.
John Geddie
Short Biography
January 3, 2003
Only one thing validates a message or a messenger: The whole counsel of the word of God.
January 4, 2003
God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.
Kelly Sparks
January 5, 2003
God had one Son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Augustine
Works and Biography
January 6, 2003
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.
Madeleine L'Engle
Bonasta
January 7, 2003
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom Museum
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Common Sense Not Needed-Revised By Corrie Ten Boom Before her imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camp, the author Corrie ten Boom was led to God to bring the gospel to the mentally handicapped. In this book Corrie recounts something of what she learned and experienced while carrying on this work. It will be of interest and encouragement to those working in similar circumstances. |
January 8, 2003
What are you afraid of? Let God act. Abandon yourself to Him. You will suffer, but you will suffer with love, peace and consolation. You will fight, but you can carry off the victory, and God Himself, after having fought with you, will crown you with His own hand. You will weep, but your tears will be sweet, and God Himself will come with satisfaction to dry them. You will not be free any longer to give yourself up to your tyrannic passions, but you will sacrifice your liberty freely, and you will enter into a new liberty unknown to the world, in which you will do nothing except for love.
Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon Biography
January 9, 2003
The smallest things are as absolutely necessary as the great things.
Mary Slessor
Biography
January 10, 2003
Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His kingdom! The moment you got saved, He enrolled you in His school - the school of suffering and affliction.
David Wilkerson
World Challenge,Inc. Online
January 11, 2003
Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
Richard Sibbes
Brief Biography and Article
January 12, 2003
If I cannot in honest happiness take the second place (or the twentieth); if I cannot take the first without making a fuss about my unworthiness, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography and Bibliography
January 13, 2002
[Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life and spirit of God into all the dead race of Adam. He is the seeker, the finder, the restorer of all that, from Cain to the end of time, was lost and dead to the life of God. He is the love that prays for all its murderers; the love that willingly suffers and dies among thieves, that thieves may have a life with him in Paradise; the love that visits publicans, harlots and sinners, and wants and seeks to forgive where most is to be forgiven.
William Law
Biography and Works
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A Serious Call To A Devout And Holy Life By William Law Originally published at the beginning of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, a time when rational criticism of religious belief was perhaps at its peak. William Law's A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life succeeded in inspiring the most cynical men of the age with its arguments in favour of a spiritual life. More than simply a set of rules to live by, Law's book examines what it means to lead a Christian life and criticizes the perversion of Christian tenets by establishments - whether secular or spiritual - whose real aim is temporal power. With a preface by the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, Jr., pastor emeritus of New York's Riverside Church, whose engagement in social causes continues to find inspiration in Law's argument, A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life is a book that can still speak to our time. More William Law Books |
January 14, 2002
Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not from it. He was never destroyed by his work; he was always on top of it. He moved among people as the Master of every situation. He was busier than anyone; the multitudes were always at him, yet he had time, for everything and everyone. He was never hurried, or harassed, or too busy. He had complete supremacy over time; he never let it dictate to him. He talked of "my time" "my hour." He knew exactly when the moment had come for doing something and when it had not. (Continued tomorrow)
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill Association
January 16, 2003
(continued from yesterday)
.. a life lived in God is a life that masters time. One can see the distractions for what they are and centre down on the things that really matter. But of course this doesn't mean that Christians do less than other people. (Look at Jesus again, and think of those people - many of the busiest you have known - who have something of this quality.)
Evelyn Underhill
Evelyn Underhill Association
January 16, 2003
It is a glorious thing to get to know God in a new way in the inner chamber. It is something still greater and more glorious to know God as the all-sufficient One and to wait on His Spirit to open our hearts and minds wide to receive the great things, the new things which He really longs to bestow on those who wait for Him.
Andrew Murray
Biography and Works
January 16, 2003
Sometimes we don't need another chance to express how we feel or to ask someone to understand our situation. Sometimes we just need a firm kick in the pants. An unsmiling expectation that if we mean all these wonderful things we talk about and sing about, then lets see something to prove it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Bonhoeffer Home Page
January 17, 2003
Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest
More Oswald Chambers Materials
January 18, 2003
If you observe events in our day that you consider to be God's judgment, don't doubt or lose hope. Look up and see God Almighty. His work of chastisement is to prepare us for the power. Like the early church we are to gather in unity, humility and repentance, waiting for the Spirit to be poured out-and continuing to believe for revival.
John Dawson
Youth With A Mission
January 19, 2003
In this hour of all-but-universal darkness one cheering gleam appears: Within the fold of conservative Christianity there are to be found increasing numbers of persons whose religious lives are marked by a growing hunger after God Himself. They are eager for spiritual realities... They are athirst for God, and they will not be satisfied until they have drunk deep at the Fountain of Living Water.
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
January 20, 2003
Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
Charles Stanley
In Touch
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Developing a Servant's Heart #10 In Touch Series By Charles Stanley In Developing A Servant's Heart, Charles Stanley will help you learn how to develop and nurture a servant's heart. He explains how you can receive a clear understanding of why God saved you and what He expects of you. This study will show you the requirements of servanthood, how to develop a servant's spirit, and how to be equipped for service. You will see how servanthood is a must for those who truly want to become Christlike. |
January 21, 2003
True contentment is a real, even an active virtue- not only affirmative but creative. It is the power of getting out of any situation all there is in it.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
January 22, 2003
If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
David Otis Fuller
Biography
January 23, 2003
A chasm is opening between the men who believe their Bibles and the men who are prepared for an advance upon Scripture. Inspiration and speculation cannot long abide in peace. Compromise there can be none. We cannot hold the inspiration of the Word, and yet reject it; we cannot believe in the atonement and deny it; we cannot hold the doctrine of the fall and yet talk of the evolution of spiritual life from human nature; we cannot recognize the punishment of the impenitent and yet indulge the "larger hope." One way or the other we must go. Decision is the virtue of the hour.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
January 24, 2003
God descends to the humble as waters flow down from the hills into the valleys.
Tikhon
January 25, 2003
We know the excitement of getting a present- we love to unwrap it to see what is inside. So it is with our children - they are gifts we unwrap for years as we discover the unique characters God has made them.
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
Calvin Seminary
January 26, 2003
Today, even amongst Christians, there can be found much of that spirit that wants to give as little as possible to the Lord, and yet to get as much as possible from Him. The prevailing thought today is of being used, as though that were the one thing that mattered. That my little rubber band should be stretched to the very limit seems all important. But this is not the Lord's mind. The Lord wants us to be used, yes; but what He is after is that we pour all we have, ourselves, to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.
Watchman Nee
Website
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Authority & Submission By Watchman Nee Our God is a God of order and divine arrangement, and He desires that all things be headed up in Christ (Eph.1:10). In opposition to the divine will, there is rebellion and chaos in God's creation due to the fall of humanity. According to God's divine arrangement, the reestablishment of order in the universe is centered on the relationship between Christ, the Head, and the church, His Body. Christ has been made Head over all things to the Church (Eph. 1:22), and the living exercise of authority and submission within the Body of Christ is central to the working out of God's Divine will. In Authority and Submission, Watchman Nee presents many helpful principles and examples from the Holy Scriptures related to the proper exercise of both authority and submission, an exercise that is according to the divine life in the Body of Christ. |
January 27, 2003
Let this be thy whole endeavour, this thy prayer, this thy desire,--that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.
Thomas a Kempis
Biography and Works
January 28, 2003
If we want the advantages of love, then we must be willing to take the risks of love. And that requires vulnerability. Of course, we can refuse this path and trod another one devoid of openness. But the toll on such a road is extremely high.
Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
Insight For Living
January 29, 2003
We seek God afar off, in projects perhaps altogether unattainable, and we do not consider that we possess Him now in the midst of confusion, by the exercise of simple faith, provided we bear humbly and bravely the annoyances which come from others, and our own imperfections.
Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon Biography
January 30, 2003
I cannot tell how I am buffeted sometimes by temptation. I never knew how bad a heart I have. Yet I do know that I love God and love His work, and desire to serve him only and in all things. And I value above all else that precious Saviour in whom alone I can be accepted.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
January 31, 2003
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God. and a scourge for Satan
John Bunyan
Online Library
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