May 1, 2007
Love is not just a sentiment. Love is a great controlling passion and it always expresses itself in terms of obedience.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Martyn Lloyd-Jones Website
May 2, 2007
It matters not if the world has heard or approves or understands the only applause we are meant to seek is that of nail-scarred hands.
B. J. Hoff
Website
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One Minute Devotions: God's Abundant Love By B.J. Hoff Every page of our one-minute devotional features a Scripture quote and short uplifting paragraph, designed to encourage and bless. It's a treasure to open each day with inviting cover design, presentation page, and decorative page accents. 5.5" x 4.5", with padded cover, gilt page edging, and meaningful words of wisdom from poet and author B.J. Hoff. Scripture taken from the NIV. More Inspiring Devotionals for Women |
May 3, 2007
Happiness depends on happenings, but joy depends on Christ.
Anonymous
May 4, 2007
God never simply buries our dead and broken dreams because He'd be burying our hearts along with our dreams. One of two positive things will happen. Either the dream will become fertilizer for something even better, or the Lord will give me the gumption and oomph to bring my dream to fruition. I can't lose either way!
Noni Joy Tari
May 5, 2007
Faith is a living, bold trust in God's grace, so certain of God's favour that it would risk death a thousand times trusting in it. Such confidence and knowledge of God's grace makes you happy, joyful and bold in your relationship to God and all creatures. The Holy Spirit makes this happen through faith. Because of it, you freely, willingly and joyfully do good to everyone, serve everyone, suffer all kinds of things, love and praise the God who has shown you such grace.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
May 6, 2007
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
John Owen
Biography-Website
May 7, 2007
Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
Insight for Living
May 8, 2007
Unwillingness to accept God's "way of escape" from temptation frightens me - what a rebel yet resides within.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
May 9-10, 2007
Faith is not what some people think it is. Their human dream is a delusion. Because they observe that faith is not followed by good works or a better life, they fall into error, even though they speak and hear much about faith. "Faith is not enough," they say, "You must do good works, you must be pious to be saved." They think that, when you hear the gospel, you start working, creating by your own strength a thankful heart which says, "I believe." That is what they think true faith is. But, because this is a human idea, a dream, the heart never learns anything from it, so it does nothing and reform doesn't come from this `faith,' either.It kills the Old Adam and makes us completely different people. It changes our hearts, our spirits, our thoughts and all our powers. It brings the Holy Spirit with it. Yes, it is a living, creative, active and powerful thing, this faith. Faith cannot help doing good works constantly. It doesn't stop to ask if good works ought to be done, but before anyone asks, it already has done them and continues to do them without ceasing. Anyone who does not do good works in this manner is an unbeliever. He stumbles around and looks for faith and good works, even though he does not know what faith or good works are.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
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May 11, 2007
Some people are willing to give the Lord credit but no cash.
Anonymous
May 12, 2007
The single most important element in any human relationship is honesty - with oneself, with God, and with others.
Catherine Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
May 13, 2007
I cannot forget my mother. She is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely.
Renita Weems
Something Within
May 14, 2007
Read whatever chapter of scripture you will, and be ever so delighted with it - yet it will leave you as poor, as empty and unchanged as it found you unless it has turned you wholly and solely to the Spirit of God, and brought you into full union with and dependence upon him.
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 |
May 15, 2007
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions -- which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Teresa of Avila
Biography
May 16, 2007
What God asks is a will which will no longer be divided between Him and any creature, a will pliant in His hands, which neither desires anything nor refuses anything, which wants without reservation everything which He wants, and which never, under any pretext, wants anything which He does not want.
Francois Fenelon
Francis Fenelon Biography
May 17, 2007
There is nothing that pleases the Lord so much as praise. There is no test of faith so true as the grace of thanksgiving. Are you praising God enough? Are you thanking Him for your actual blessings that are more than can be numbered, and are you daring to praise Him even for those trials which are but blessings in disguise? Have you learned to praise Him in advance for the things that have not yet come?
Anonymous
May 18, 2007
Like a victorious locker room, church is a place to exult, to give thanks, to celebrate the great news that all is forgiven, that God is love, that victory is certain.
Philip Yancey
Biography
May 19, 2007
Does the Bible ever say anywhere from Genesis to Revelation, 'My house shall be called a house of preaching'? Does it ever say, 'My house shall be called a house of music'? Of course not. The Bible does say, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations'. Preaching, music, the reading of the Word - these things are fine; I believe in and practice all of them. But they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling. the honest truth is that I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.
Jim Cymbala
The Brooklyn Tabernacle
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Breakthrough Prayer By Jim Cymbala Do you long to break through your limitations to a life transformed by God? Breakthrough Prayer helps you connect with God's heart and obtain answers to your prayers. It will energize your faith with unforgettable stories of people whose lives have been turned around by prayer. Drawing on examples from the Bible, Jim Cymbala helps you apply key principles of prayer. You will gain new insight into God's will and the ways he offers you his guidance in life. Breathrough Prayer includes the "lost prayers" of the Bible - things most of us rarely pray for even though God has promised them to all his children. This powerful book will inspire you to draw near to God and allow him to shower his blessings of growth, love, and forgiveness on your life. |
May 20, 2007
The gospel is for the salvation of the world, and we are sometimes in danger of locking ourselves inside the rescue-shop and plundering the stock of blessings for the sole purpose of spiritual self-gratification, while millions stream empty- handed past the closed doors into eternal darkness, hearing the joyful sounds and seeing the advertisements, but never being given a chance to test the goods.
Graham Kendrick
Website
May 21, 2007
Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship. To stand before the Holy One of eternity is to change. Resentments cannot be held with the same tenacity when we enter his gracious light. As Jesus says, we need to leave our gift at the altar and go set the matter straight (Matthew 5:23, 24). In worship an increased power steals its way into the heart sanctuary, an increased compassion grows in the soul. To worship is to change.
Richard J. Foster
Brief Biography And List Of Works
May 22, 2007
One of the marks of spiritual maturity is the quiet confidence that God is in control - without the need to understand why He does what He does.
Anonymous
May 23, 2007
God walks with us. He scoops us up in His arms or simply sits with us in silent strength until we cannot avoid the awesome recognition that yes, even now, He is there.
Gloria Gaither
Gaither Website
May 24, 2007
I have cried, says the Psalmist, because thou hast heard me. One would think he should have said contrariwise; thou hast heard me because I have cried; yet, he says, I have cried because thou hast heard me; to show that crying doth not always go before hearing with God, as it doth with us; but that God will not only hear our cry, but also hear us before we cry, and will help us.
Thomas Playfere
May 25, 2007
Beloved, whatever you are waiting for or believing for, God will not be late. The Lord is the the Healer. He is just. He is the dreamer of dreams and He answers prayers. Be ssured that He will bring that prodigal home..... Don't give up hope and one day you will see the resurrection you have been waiting for, come your way!
Cindy Jacobs
Generals of Intercession
May 26, 2007
Sin is cosmic treason.
R. C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
May 27, 2007
The people of the Lord in humility are to lay themselves and their prayers, and all that they have, at the foot of their God, to be disposed of by him as he in his heavenly wisdom seeth best. Yet not doubting but God will answer the desire of his people that way that shall be most for their advantage and his glory. When the saints therefore do pray with submission to the will of God, it doth not argue that they are to doubt or question God's love and kindness to them. But because they at all times are not so wise, but that sometimes Satan may get that advantage of them, as to tempt them to pray for that which, if they had it, would neither prove to God's glory nor his people's good.
John Bunyan
Online Library
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May 28, 2007
It makes a great difference in our feeling towards others if their needs and their joys are on our lips in prayer; as also it makes a vast difference in their feelings towards us if they know that we are in the habit of praying for them. There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.
Charles H. Brent
Brief Biography
May 29, 2007
Heavenly Father: Teach us that love and forgiveness are essential bridges that span the chasms of resentment and bitterness. Also, teach us that feeling gratitude without expressing it is like wrapping a gift and not giving it.
Anonymous
May 30, 2007
The character of God is today, and always will be, exactly what it was in Bible times...God is forever what at that moment, three thousand years ago, He told Moses that He was.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
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Faithfulness & Holiness: The Witness of J.C. Ryle By J.I. Packer He came to faith the year Queen Victoria ascended the throne, yet his vivid and vigorous message remains as relevant today as ever. In the first half of this book, Packer surveys the life and work of the great English evangelical leader John Charles Ryle. A reprint of Ryle's 1877 classic, Holiness, completes the work. |
May 31, 2007
In recent times it has become fashionable in Christian spirituality to put great emphasis on service to our neighbour and to equate service with prayer. There is much truth in this idea, but it is a half-truth. There can be no substitute in the spiritual life for being alone with God. There must be that part of spirituality which is private and individual - secret between me and my God. It is that daily attempt to become increasingly aware of the presence and the action of God in our lives and to know the growing desire within us for some kind of closeness to him.
Basil Hume
Obituary
April 2007/ June 2007
