I said to a man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown"; and he replied, "Go into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than a light and safer than a known way!" quoting from a poem by M. L. Harkins.
King George VI
Profile
January 2 -3, 2004
Would it not be the height of folly if Tasmania were to resolve to cut the supply of power from that mountain lake and to substitute hand power? Would not the factories soon close down, and the incipient harvest of prosperity suddenly wither? Yet it often seems as though the modern Church were in danger of making a similar mistake. In scores of cases she [the Church] is disconnecting herself from the dynamic of Pentecost, and is endeavoring to find compensation for her loss of spiritual power in brilliance of intellect in the pulpit, in highly organized and expensive machinery, and by calling to her aid incidental accessories, which are borrowed from the world; and which, even where they may be comparatively innocent, are totally unfit to secure the great ends for which she was called into being, according to the purpose and plan of her great Architect.
Frederick Brotherton ( F. B. ) Meyer
Online Works
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Power for Living By F.B. Meyer / Ambassador-emerald, Intl. F. B. Meyer discusses key words found in the Epistle To The Ephesians which he calls key-words of the Inner Life. |
If I do not give a friend "The benefit of the doubt," but put the worst construction instead of the best on what is said or done, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography and Bibliography
January 5, 2004
Man sees your actions, but God your motives.
Thomas a Kempis
Biography and Works
January 6, 2004
Lord, to Thy call of me I bow, obey like Abraham; Thou lov'st me because Thou art Thou, And I am what I am. Doubt whispers, "Thou art such a blot He cannot love poor thee." If what I am He loveth not, He loves what I shall be.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
January 7, 2004
Perhaps if there were more of that intense distress for souls that leads to tears, we should more frequently see the results we desire. Sometimes it may be that while we are complaining of the hardness of the hearts of those we are seeking to benefit, the hardness of our own hearts and our feeble apprehension of the solemn reality of eternal things may be the true cause of our want of success.
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
January 8, 2004
To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
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A Year with C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works By Patricia Klein, ed. Daily readings from the works of C. S. Lewis are compiled in a handsome gift hardcover with satin ribbon marker, and classic layout format. Each month begins with an indexed listing of excerpts for easy referencing. For every day of the year, from his bestselling titles. Assorted helpful indexes included. |
January 9, 2004
Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.
Edmund Clowney
Website
January 10, 2004
Death is the sinner's penalty but the saint's promotion.
Anonymous
January 11, 2004
God's word is-
1. Supernatural in origin;
2. Eternal in duration;
3. Inexpressible in valour;
4. Infinite in scope;
5. Regenerative in power;
6. Infallible in authority;
7. Universal in application;
8. Inspired in totality.
Read it through, write it down; pray it in; work it out; pass it on.
The word of God changes a man until he becomes an Epistle of God.
Smith Wigglesworth
Biography
January 12, 2004
We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been "living in Laodicea", lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living. The Bible parable says that while men slept, the enemy sowed tares among the wheat. A boy who rises at 4:30 to deliver papers is considered a go-getter, but to urge our young people to rise at 5:30 to pray is considered fanaticism. We must once again wear the harness of discipline. There is no other way.
Leonard Ravenhill
Archives and Articles
January 13, 2004
It is of primary importance that the preacher should be clothed with the garment of salvation; that he should be filled with a sense of the immense worth of the truth, the guilt, depravity and danger man is in; the unsearchable love of Christ in the bloody purchase, and his ability and willingness to save redeemed penitents. Without this robe, he will preach a distant Jesus, by an unfelt gospel, and with an unhallowed tongue.
John Leland
Online Library
January 14, 2004
When we stray from His presence, He longs for you to come back. He weeps that you are missing out on His love, protection and provision. He throws His arms open, runs toward you, gathers you up, and welcomes you home.
Charles Stanley
In Touch
January 15, 2004
The human spirit abides in the body very much as the chicken in the shell. If it were possible for the bird within the shell to be told that outside of it was a great widespread world, with all kinds of fruit and flowers, with rivers and grand mountains, that its mother also was there, and that it would see all this when set free from its shell, it could not understand or believe it.... In the same way there are many who are uncertain about the future life and the existence of God, because they cannot see beyond this shell-like body of flesh, and their thoughts, like delicate wings, cannot carry them beyond the narrow confines of the brain. Their weak eyes cannot discover those eternal and unfading treasures which God has prepared for those who love Him.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
Short Biography
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January 16, 2004
For you who wonder if you've played too long to change, take courage from Jacob's legacy. No man is too bad for God. To transform a riverboat gambler into a man of faith would be no easy task. But for God, it was all in a night's work.
Max Lucado
Upwords
Max Lucado Books
January 17, 2004
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the Christ risen.
Mother Teresa
Informational Website
January 18, 2003
God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as He does temporal ones; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual.
Robert South
January 19, 2004
Holiness has never been the driving force of the majority. It is, however, mandatory for anyone who wants to enter the kingdom.
Elisabeth Elliot
Gateway to Joy
January 20, 2004
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. It is for cowards to lie.
George Herbert
Biography
January 21, 2004
Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the high tower of the dwelling place of God, all these supposes will drop out of our lives. We shall be quiet from the fear of evil, for no threatenings of evil can penetrate into the high tower of God. Even when walking through the valley of the shadow of death, the psalmist could say, will fear no evil; and, if we are dwelling in God, we can say so too.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Online Books
January 22, 2004
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
Vance Havner
Biography
January 23, 2004
When we are engaged in His work we are very close to Christ. We are expending our anxiety and affections on the same objects on which His heart is set.
James Stalker
Writings
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The Life of Christ By James Stalker It is the purpose and plan of the following text to present readers with a brief and edifying overview of the life of Jesus Christ. The author, James Stalker, has done a masterful job at providing readers with the essential details of Christ's life and work so they can easily comprehend the grand scope of the Savior's mission. Helpful maps, Scripture references, chapter questions, and key vocabulary terms have been included in an effort to enhance the study of this book. Students who desire to get the most out of their study of "The Life of Christ" should make use of these helpful resources. Obviously, it is wise for students to read the Bible itself as they move through their study, paying attention to the Scripture references that are provided throughout this textbook. |
January 23, 2004
Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that is "finding his place in it," while really it is finding its place in him.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis
Into The Wardrobe
January 25, 2003
God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in, that He may speak, perchance through grief or pain, and softly, heart to heart, above the din, may tell some precious thought to us again.
Anonymous
January 26, 2004
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!"
A. W. Tozer
The Works of A. W. Tozer
January 27, 2004
IF we see a speck in a brother's eye, we must first see if there is a log in our own eye; perhaps that speck in our brother's eye is only a reflection of the beam in our own.
David Watson
January 28, 2004
I have always found it depressing to listen to the kind of people who, whenever you meet them, will always for sure tell you the story of their conversion many years ago. They tell you that story every time. I have known people do exactly the same thing with revival..... There is always something about an initial experience that is remarkable and outstanding. And a time of revival is so amazing and wonderful that it is not surprising that people go on talking about it. But, if they give the impression that they have had nothing since that wonderful experience, that ever after they have been walking through a wilderness, and travelling through a desert, then it is absolutely wrong....Their idea of the Christian life is of a dramatic experience, perhaps at the outset, after which they just trudge along, living on the strength of that and partly keeping their eye turned backwards as they go forward.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
January 29, 2004
It horribly skews the meaning of the cross when contemporary prophets of self-esteem say that the cross is a witness to my infinite worth.The biblical perspective is that the cross in a witness to the infinite worth of God's glory, and a witness to the immensity of the sin of my pride.
John Piper
January 30, 2004
Just think you are here not by chance but by GOD's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else; you are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here at this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation. You are GOD's servant in GOD's place at GOD's perfect time.
Anonymous
January 31, 2004
Modern man wants to be treated as an invalid rather than a sinner.
Eric Alexander
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12 Months of Faith: A Devotional Journal for Teens By Bettie B. Youngs, Jennifer Leigh Youngs, Debbie Thurman Teens have a lot of questions about God and faith, such as, Is God really there? Does He really care about my life? How should I pray? How can I know what plans He has for my life? This interactive journal is designed to help teens answer those questions and connect with our heavenly Father every day to gain a deeper understanding of what His Word says to them. 12 Months of Faith will teach teens these truths and more: |
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