July 1, 2003
I would have the whole of my experience one continued sense - first, of my nothingness, and dependence on God; second, of my guiltiness and desert before Him; third, of my obligations to redeeming love, as utterly overwhelming me with its incomprehensible extent and grandeur...
Charles Simeon
Brief Biography
July 2, 2003
God preserves the wicked to give them time to repent.
Comtesse de Sophie Rostopchine
Biography
July 3, 2003
Prayer has mighty power to move mountains because the Holy Spirit is ready both to encourage our praying and to remove the mountains hindering us. Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways.
Wesley L. Duewel
Brief Biography
July 4, 2003
Intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.
Samuel Chadwick
Biography
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Samuel Chadwick The Path of Prayer By Samuel Chadwick What is prayer and what are its functions? This helpful volume is based not on theory but experience, and is simply written so that everyone will be able to apply its vital principles. |
July 5, 2003
I will charge my soul to believe and wait for Him, and will follow His providence, and not go before it, nor stay behind it.
Samuel Rutherford
Selected Letters
July 6, 2003
If you really want to know God, go to his people. Go to your barber and talk about God. Tell the carpenter about what you're experiencing. Take time to read the lives of the saints. They always knock you off your feet because they tell you the preoccupations you have aren't the ones you should have. Get in touch with those women and men who did crazy things like falling in love with God
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
July 7, 2003
If we could only see the heart of the Father, we would be drawn into praise and thanksgiving more often. It is easy for us to think that God is so majestic and so highly exalted that our adoration makes no difference to him. Our God is not made of stone. His heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small. A cup of cold water is enough to put tears in the eyes of God. God celebrates our feeble expressions of gratitude.
Richard J. Foster
Brief Biography and List of Works
July 8, 2003
Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.
John R. Rice
Biography
July 9, 2003
"Amplius" means broader, fuller, wider. That is God's perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon.
Frederick Brotherton ( F. B. ) Meyer
Online Works
July 10, 2003
Prayer should never be understood primarily in terms of power but rather as relating to God who is the source of all power.
Anonymous
July 11, 2003
For the early believers koinonia was not the frilly 'fellowship' of church-sponsored bi-weekly outings. It was not tea, biscuits and sophisticated small talk in the Fellowship Hall after the sermon. It was an unconditional sharing of their lives with the other members of Christ's body.
Ron Sider
Biography
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Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger By Ronald J. Sider When Ron Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger first appeared twenty-eight years ago, it shook readers to the core. Informed about the issues of world hunger and poverty, they could no longer ignore the plight of their global neighbours. This thoroughly revised edition of Sider's best-selling book outlines the progress that has been made in the last three decades, and the work that is still left to do. Every day 30,000 children still die of starvation and preventable diseases, and 1.2 billion people, live in relentless, unrelieved poverty worldwide. Why is there still so much poverty? Conservatives blame sinful individual choices and laziness. Liberals condemn economic and social structures. Who is right? Who is wrong? Both, according to Sider, who explains poverty's complex causes in this new edition and offers concrete, practical proposals for change. |
July 12, 2003
Instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George Macdonald
The Golden Key Website
July 13, 2003
Our Lord gives the answer to a difficulty continually perplexing honest Christians- "How am I to learn to love God?" Our Lord gives the answer, "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Act for God, do and say the things that He wills; direct your thoughts and intentions God-ward; and, depend upon it, in the slow process of nature, all that belongs to you- your instincts, your intelligence, your affections, your feelings- will gradually follow along the line of your action. Act for God; you are already showing love to Him and you will learn to feel it.
Charles Gore
Short Biography and Bibliography
July 14, 2003
When Christ reveals Himself there is satisfaction in the slenderest portion, and without Christ there is emptiness in the greatest fullness.
Alexander Grosse
July 15, 2003
We all know that a sympathetic and intelligent listener not only flatters our vanity, but also frequently enables us to crystallize our own ideas to the best advantage. Why, then, do we so often refuse to perform this service?
B Wilson
Short Biography
July 16, 2003
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Horace Bushnell
Brief Biography and Bibliography
July 17, 2003
The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly exercises. All authentic Christian peacemaking exhibits the love and justice - and so the pain - of the cross.
John R. W. Stott
John Stott Ministries
July 18, 2003
Revival is a Divine attack on society.
Ron McIntosh
Victory Bible Institute
July 19, 2003
A heart that does not have the true ability to be utterly and genuinely delighted and grateful at the simple gift given by a friend, will find it equally as difficult to be utterly delighted in the gifts given by the King.
Katherine Walden
I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
July 20, 2003
Remember putting your face above a headless frame painted to represent a muscle man, a clown, or even a bathing beauty? Many of us have had our pictures taken this way, and the photos are humorous because the head doesn't fit the body. If we could picture Christ as the head of our local body of believers, would the world laugh at the misfit? Or would they stand in awe of a human body so closely related to a divine head?
Dan Bernard
Somebody Cares, Tampa Bay.
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A House United: How Christ-Centered Unity Can End Church Division By Francis Frangipane Few works of the enemy are as destructive to the Body of Christ as a church split. Once a wedge is driven into the heart of a congregation, the result is usually bitterness, grief, even hatred among those who are called to live together in love. Wounded flocks and broken pastors have had little direction for the road back to wholeness--until now. As author Francis Frangipane shines the bright light of Scripture into the shadows of division. He explains what to do if your church is caught in this turmoil and reveals biblical safeguards against future strife. If you have experienced strain in the past or recognize a storm brewing in the present, let A House United guide you to restoration and peace. Frangipane shows you how to obtain once more the "unoffendable" heart of Jesus Christ. |
July 21, 2003
It is wonderful how the exercise of one's will in a matter like this will eventuate in the correct emotions. Determining to wish that person's good; deliberately trying to do something loving for him; and praying for him - all this will some day bring about the emotion of love itself. But love, as the Bible interprets it, is an affair of the will, not necessarily of the emotions.
Isobel Kuhn
Wheaton College Articles
July 22, 2003
Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world? Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right? To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this: we lack the mind of Christ.
J. Arthur Lewis
July 23, 2003
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Profile
July 24, 2003
Whenever I am afield or outdoors, there steals over me the acute consciousness that I am confronted on every hand by the superb workmanship of my Father. It is as if every tree, rock, river, flower, mountain, bird, or blade of grass had stamped upon it the indelible label, "Made by God." Is it any wonder that in a simple yet sublime sense of devotion, respect, and reverence for all life, Christ longed for His Father's name to be hollowed throughout the earth?
Phillip Keller
Short Biography
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Lessons from a Sheep Dog: A True Story of Transforming Love By Phillip Keller What you see is not always what you get - and this true story of a man and his dog is no exception. Woven just under the surface of this simple parable, Keller presents profound spiritual truth. It is the story of Lass, a worthless animal thought to be untrainable, who becomes a magnificent and valuable sheepdog - not terribly unlike how God's love can transform our worst characteristics into blessings that serve to further His Kingdom. Allow yourself to see Biblical truth in this classic tale of what can happen when you yield to the Master. |
Phillip Keller Materials
July 25, 2003
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Short Biography
July 26, 2003
Empower me to be a bold participant, rather than a timid saint in waiting; to exercise authority of honesty, rather than to defer to power or deceive to get it; to influence someone for justice, rather than impress anyone for gain; and by grace, to find treasures of joy, of friendship, of peace hidden in the fields you give me daily to plow.
Ted Loder
July 27, 2003
I do not serve God only in the brief moments during which I am taking part in a religious service, or reading the Bible, or saying my prayers, or talking about him in some book I am writing, or discussing the meaning of life with a patient or a friend. I serve him quite as much when I am giving a patient an injection, or lancing an abscess, or writing a prescription, or giving a piece of good advice. Or again, I serve him quite as much when I am reading the newspaper, traveling, laughing at a joke, or soldering a joint in an electric wire. I serve him by taking an interest in everything, because he is interested in everything, because he has created everything and has put me in his creation so that I may participate in it fully.
Paul Tournier
Short Biography
July 28, 2003
The Church has always had a conservative head and a liberal heart, and the world has never understood her, just as it never understood Christ.
Peter Kreeft
Website
July 29, 2003
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.
Elton Trueblood
Biography
July 30, 2003
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal
Biography
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The Mind on Fire: Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent By Blaise Pascal, abridged & edited by James M. Houston Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) earned recognition as a renowned mathematician, physicist and a man after God's heart. As he came to the forefront of geometry and physics, he turned his considerable analytical abilities to study religion or, as he said, to "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man." Pascal's classic defense of Christi in his time. Today, editor James Houston has organized Pascal's meditations into a logical progression of thought that contemporary readers can enjoy in The Mind on Fire. Described as a "masterpiece of theological scholarship," The Mind on Fire also includes selections from Pascal's Letters to a Provincial, a description of his conversion in his own words. |
July 31, 2003
One who at times says to some of the brethren, "Yesterday I heard such and such," and again, "Do you know what happened to poor so-and-so?" and, "Did you hear of such a one's misfortune?" Will such a person ever be mindful of his own vices and be so distressed that he will shed a tear from his eyes?
Symeon
June 2003 / August 2003
