July 1, 2002
In worship our relationship with Christ is established, maintained, and repaired. Christ meets us in our act of celebrating his death and resurrection. In this worship encounter, the Spirit brings us the very real benefits of Christ's death - salvation, healing, comfort, hope, guidance, and assurance. Through this encounter, order and meaning come into our lives. Through worship, a right ordering of God, the world, self, and neighbour is experienced, and the worshiper receives a peace that passes understanding. Simply put, worship is an it-is-well-with-my-soul experience.
Robert Webber
Worship Resources for the Local Church
July 2, 2002
Those who believe they believe in God but without passion in the heart, without anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, and even at times without despair, believe only in the idea of God, and not in God himself.
Madeleine L'Engle
Website
July 3, 2002
Each of us may be sure that if God sends us on stony paths He will provide us with strong shoes, and He will not send us out on any journey for which He does not equip us well.
Alexander MacLaren
Biography and Online Library
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The Journey: How to Live by Faith in an Uncertain World By Billy Graham In this culmination of a lifetime of experience and ministry, join Dr. Graham as he leads you personally, chapter by chapter, on a journey in faith. You'll learn about God, his purpose for your life, and what Jesus has done for you. You'll be reminded that God has given you the Spirit and other tools to live successfully. Dr. Graham's insights will help you deal with the challenges that come along the way - temptation, destructive emotions, events that turn life upside down, and others. Grounded in daily Christian living, you'll also find practical advice on knowing God's will, making right decisions, strengthening your marriage, being a wise parent, and using your gifts to share Christ with others. No matter where you are along the journey of life, The Journey will help you make the most of it! More Billy Graham Materials |
July 4, 2002
For daily need there is daily grace; for sudden need, sudden grace, and for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace.
John Blanchard
July 5, 2002
There may be no trumpet sound or loud applause when we make a right decision, just a calm sense of resolution and peace.
Gloria Gaither
Gaither Website.
July 6, 2002
Our relationship with God often seems to be a balance or tension between God's clear voice and his silence, his closeness and his awesome holiness, his sweet and comforting imminence and his magnificent and mysterious transcendence.
Chip Stam
Carl Stam Website
July 7, 2002
To every toiling, heavy-laden sinner, Jesus says, "Come to me and rest". But there are many toiling, heavy-laden believers, too. For them this same invitation is meant. Note well the words of Jesus, if you are heavy-laden with your service, and do not mistake it. It is not, "Go, labor on," as perhaps you imagine. On the contrary, it is stop, turn back, "Come to me and rest." Never, never did Christ send a heavy laden one to work; never, never did He send a hungry one, a weary one, a sick or sorrowing one, away on any service. For such the Bible only says, "Come, come, come."
James Hudson Taylor
James Hudson Taylor Biography
July 8, 2002
If sheep do not have the constant care of a shepherd, they will go the wrong way, unaware of the dangers at hand. They have been known to nibble themselves right off the side of a mountain..... And so, because sheep are sheep, they need shepherds to care for them. The welfare of sheep depends solely upon the care they get from their shepherd. Therefore, the better the shepherd, the healthier the sheep.
Kay Arthur
Precept Ministries International
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Lord, I Give You This Day By Kay Arthur Open Your Heart to the Light of God's Presence "Teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favour with you." As a child of God, your heart naturally yearns to please the Father. You long to live in the light of His presence, but the frustrations, temptations, disappointments, and even the earthly joys of daily life continually threaten to distract you from what's most important. This one-year devotional by respected author and Bible teacher Kay Arthur helps direct your eyes and heart back to God daily, offering powerful insights into key aspects of His character and delving into His Word to unearth wisdom and practical guidance for every aspect of your life. Within these pages you'll find insight, encouragement, and strength to walk in God's ways each day of the year, trusting in His faithfulness and basking in the light of His favour.
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July 9, 2002
We have... unbroken fellowship with Him. A father never sends his child away with the thought that he does not care about his child knowing that he loves him. The father longs to have his child believe that he has the light of his father's countenance upon him all the day - that, if he sends the child away to school, or anywhere that necessity compels, it is with a sense of sacrifice of parental feelings. If it be so with an earthly father, what think you of God?
Andrew Murray
Biography and Works
July 10, 2002
Aloneness can lead to loneliness. God's preventative for loneliness is intimacy - meaningful, open, sharing relationships with one another. In Christ we have the capacity for the fulfilling sense of belonging which comes from intimate fellowship with God and with other believers.
Neil T. Anderson
Freedom in Christ Ministries
July 11, 2002
I choose patience...I will overlook the inconveniences of the world. Instead of cursing the one who takes my place, I'll invite him to do so. Rather than complaining that the wait is too long, I will thank God for a moment to pray. Instead of clinching my fist at new assignments, I will face them with joy and courage.
Max Lucado
Upwords
July 12, 2002
God does not stand afar off as I struggle to speak. He cares enough to listen with more than casual attention. He translates my scrubby words and hears what is truly inside. He hears my sighs and uncertain gropings as fine prose.
Timothy Jones
Short Biography
July 13, 2002
Too often we say, "I have no talent to teach a Sunday school class." "My home is not nice enough to have a Bible study here." "I don't cook well enough to help with Meals on Wheels." "I'm a businessman, not a carpenter. I wouldn't know the first thing about building a house for Habitat for Humanity." When we step out in faith and offer all we have, God will use it in powerful ways. How much is enough? Just what we have when God is with us!
Jane Douglas White
July 14, 2002
Believe that when you come into the presence of God you can have all you came for. You can take it away, and you can use it, for all the power of God is at your disposal in response to your faith.
Smith Wigglesworth
Biography
July 15, 2002
Common experience declares how momentary and how useless are those violent fits and gusts of endeavours which proceed from fear and uncertainty, both in things spiritual and things temporal, or civil. Whilst men are under the power of actual impressions from such fears, they will convert to God, yea, they will turn in a moment, and perfect their holiness in an instant; but so soon as that impression wears off (as it will do on every occasion, and upon none at all) such persons are as dead and cold towards God as the lead or iron, which but now ran in a fiery stream, is now when the heat is departed from it.
John Owen
Biography-Website
John Owen
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Holy Spirit: The Treasures of John Owen for Today's Readers By John Owen Owen on the Holy Spirit, as this work has been known to generations of Christians, was written by the greatest theologian of the Puritan era. It ranges across themes associated with the person and work of the Spirit and is doctrinal and pastoral in character. The massive 17th century edition has been modernized and abridged to make it accessible to Christians today. |
July 16, 2002
We have a choice. We can carry the world on our shoulders, or we can say, "I give up, Lord; here's my life. I give you my world, the whole world."
Bruce Larson
July 17, 2002
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.
A A Hodge
Online Article.
July 18, 2002
But in the glorious presence of God, not any one can be pampered with too much, nor any one be pined with too little. They that gather much of the heavenly manna, "have nothing over;" and "They that gather little have no lack." They that are once possessed of that presence of God, are so possessed with it that they can never feel the misery of thirst or hunger.
Edward Willan
July 19, 2002
It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbour.
Martin Luther
Biography and Information
July 20, 2002
Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.
G. Campbell Morgan
Biography
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The Westminster Pulpit, 5 Volumes By G. Campbell Morgan Morgan is described as "one of the most powerful witnesses for Christ since the Reformation." Here are nearly 300 of his sermons as they were preached at London's Westminster Chapel at the height of his career. The collection is scholarly and diverse, suitable for both sermon help and devotional reading. This attractive reprint edition reads "Commemorative 80th Anniversary" in silver on the spine. Approx. 3500 pages total, five hardcovers from Baker. More G. Campbell Morgan Books |
July 21, 2002
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, "O God, forgive me," or "Help me."
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
July 22, 2002
I am graven on the palms of His hands. I am never out of His mind. All my knowledge of Him depends on His sustained initiative in knowing me. I know Him, because He first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, One who loves me; and there is no moment when His eye is off me, or His attention distracted for me, and no moment, therefore, when His care falters.
James I (J. I.) Packer
Brief Online Interview
July 23, 2002
[I wish you] health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbour. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann von Goethe
July 24, 2002
I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot
Brief Biography
July 25, 2002
A basic trouble is that most churches limit themselves unnecessarily by addressing their message almost exclusively to those who are open to religious impression through the intellect, whereas... there are at least four other gateways - the emotions, the imagination, the aesthetic feeling, and the will - through which they can be reached
Arthur John (A. J.) Gossip
Brief Biography
July 26, 2002
We are at this moment as close to God as we really choose to be. True, there are times when we would like to know a deeper intimacy, but when it comes to the point, we are not prepared to pay the price involved.
J. Oswald Saunders
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The Restless Heart: Finding Our Spiritual Home in Times of Loneliness By Ronald Rolheiser An honest, authentic voice in the spiritual wilderness, Rolheiser's The Holy Longing has been something of a sensation, selling over 100,000 copies. Now he tackles one of the plagues of the modern era --- loneliness and alienation. Technology just can't fill our need for intimacy and friendship. 224 pages, hardcover. |
July 27, 2002
Sometimes I think of life as a big wagon wheel with many spokes. In the middle is the hub. Often in ministry, it looks like we are running around the rim trying to reach everybody. But God says, "Start in the hub; live in the hub. Then you will be connected with all the spokes, and you won't have to run so fast."
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
July 28, 2002
In some way, it is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.
(Clive Staples) C. S. Lewis - Problem with Pain
Into The Wardrobe
July 29, 2002
His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice.
John R. W. Stott
John Stott Ministries
July 30, 2002
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord.
William Booth
Biography
July 31, 2002
If there be anything that is capable of setting the soul in a large place it is absolute abandonment to God. It diffuses in the soul a peace that flows like a river and the righteousness which is as the waves of the sea.
Francois Fenelon
Francois Fenelon Biography
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