June 12, 2004
Speak tenderly to them. Let there be kindness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile, in the warmth of your greeting. Always have a cheerful smile.
Don't only give your care, but give your heart as well.
J. S. Bach
Website
July 10, 2004
All music should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the soul's refreshment; where this is not remembered there is no real music but only a devilish hub-bub.
J. S. Bach
Website
March 12, 2003
God is so big He can cover the whole world with his Love and so small He can curl up inside your heart.
June Masters Bacher
February 10, 2002
The tragedies that now blacken and darken the very air of heaven for us, will sink into their places in a scheme so august, so magnificent, so joyful, that we shall laugh for wonder and delight.
Arthur Christopher Bacon
September 20, 2002
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
May 23, 2005
O Holy Spirit of God, abide with us; inspire all our thoughts; pervade our imaginations; suggest all our decisions; order all our doings. Be with us in our silence and in our speech, in our haste and in our leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and in the weariness of the evening; and give us grace at all times humbly to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.
John Baillie
Biography
October 16, 2006
Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.
John Baillie
Biography
January 7, 2007
Holy Spirit of God, visit now this soul of mine, and tarry within it until the eventide. Inspire all my thoughts. Pervade all my imaginations. Suggest all my decisions. Lodge in my soul's most inward citadel, and order all my doings. Be with me in silence and in my speech, in my haste and in my leisure, in company and in solitude, in the freshness of the morning and the weariness of the evening. Give me grace at all times to rejoice in Thy mysterious companionship.
John Baillie
Biography
March 13, 2007
Dear Father, take this day's life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my will. Take my hands and make them skilful to serve Thee. Take my feet and make them swift to do Thy bidding. Take my eyes and keep them fixed upon Thine everlasting beauty. Take my mouth and make it eloquent in testimony to Thy love. Make this day a day of obedience, a day of spiritual joy and peace. Make this day's work a little part of the work of the Kingdom of my Lord Christ, in whose name these my prayers are said. Amen.
John Baillie
Biography
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A Diary of Private Prayer By John Baillie In this wonderful collection, noted theologian Dr. John Baillie offers personal prayers for people who are seeking a better understanding of God and themselves. Intermingling adoring and meditative thoughts about God with a concern for the social and individual good, these daily invocations help and inspire us to search our inner selves and find the deep religious beliefs that lie within. |
August 23, 2003
If you get busy serving God, you're too busy to sin.
Chuck Baker
October 25, 2007
Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
Hosea Ballou
Short Biography
June 11, 2007
Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.
Charles F. Banning
August 13, 2005
Some Christians feel they must "come on strong." Overwhelmed by such a bold confrontation with the gospel, unbelievers may actually find it repulsive....We should remember that rare perfumes have subtle appeal. A dab behind each ear is about all the is required.
Alma Barkman
Biography
November 27, 2003
Being thankful is not telling God you appreciate the fact that your life is not in shambles. If that is the basis of your gratitude, you are on slippery ground. Every day of your life you face the possibility that a blessing in your life may be taken away. But blessings are only signs of God's love. The real blessing, of course, is the love itself. Whenever we get too attached to the sign, we lose our grasp on the God who gave it to us. Churches are filled with widows who can explain this to you. We are not ultimately grateful that we are still holding our blessings. We are grateful that we are held by God even when the blessings are slipping through our fingers.
Craig Barnes
Biography
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An Extravagant Mercy By Craig Barnes An Extravagant Mercy is a collection of thought-provoking, and prayer-inducing reflections on Scripture. Readers will appreciate the fresh and unexpected biblical perspectives that pastor, theologian and author M. Craig Barnes brings to the ordinary things of life. The immeasurable and unbounded grace of God is the theme that winds through these diverse meditations. Softcover, 216 pages. More Craig Barnes Materials |
January 4, 2002
It's easy to follow when we want to go where the leader is taking us, but what about when He takes a turn we're not in favour of?
Lisa Barry
March 29, 2007
Grace is the incomprehensible fact that God is well pleased with a man, and that a man can rejoice in God. Only when grace is recognized to be incomprehensible is it grace. Grace exists, therefore, only where the Resurrection is reflected. Grace is the gift of Christ, who exposes the gulf which separates God and man, and, by exposing it, bridges it.
Karl Barth
An Introduction to Karl Barth
October 14, 2002
For the Lord does not want the sinner to die, but to return and live. There is still time for endurance, time for patience, time for healing, time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up, Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners, but leap aside. For when you turn back and weep, then you will be saved.
Basil
Short Biography
November 26, 2004
The Christian ought not to grudge another's reputation, nor rejoice over any man's faults; he ought in Christ's love to grieve and be afflicted at his brother's faults, and rejoice over his brother's good deeds. He ought not to be indifferent or silent before sinners. He who shows another to be wrong ought to do so with all tenderness, in the fear of God, and with the object of converting the sinner. He who is proved wrong or rebuked ought to take it willingly, recognizing his own gain in being set right.
Basil
Short Biography
February 25, 2007
I have learned from Jesus Christ himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ, if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.
Basil
Short Biography
October 3, 2004
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons; but they are helpless against our prayers .
J. Sidlow Baxter
Online Article.
December 4, 2001
And the longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Richard Baxter
Website
June 30, 2005
Lord, whatever you want, wherever you want it, and whenever you want it, that's what I want.
Richard Baxter
Website
June 9, 2006
Do not only take occasions of doing good when they are thrust upon you; but study how to do all the good you can, as those "that are zealous of good works." Zeal of good works will make you plot and contrive for them; consult and ask advice for them; it will make you glad when you meet with a hopeful opportunity; it will make you do it largely, and not sparingly, and by the halves; it will make you do it speedily, without unwilling backwardness and delay; it will make you do it constantly to your lives' end. It will make you labor in it as your trade, and not consent that others do good at your charge. It will make you glad, when good is done, and not to grudge at what it cost you. In a word, it will make your neighbours to be to you as yourselves, and the pleasing of God to be above yourselves, and therefore to be as glad to do good as to receive it.
Richard Baxter
Website
June 26, 2006
We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.
Richard Baxter
Website
June 29, 2003
The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.
Edward Bedore
Berean Bible Institute
April 9, 2002
The acid test of our faith in the promises of God is never found in the easy-going, comfortable ways of life, but in the great emergencies, the times of storm and of stress, the days of adversity, when all human aid fails.
Ethel Bell
October 25, 2005
It is in worship, that through song, prayer, and preaching, our theology is formed, our discipleship encouraged, and our spirits nourished. It is in worship that we reach out to touch the hem of Christ's garment and find that, instead of touching the hem, we are being offered the grace of God by word of mouth and gift of hand.
John Bell
July 28, 2007
There he is. In the temple again. Causing trouble. Speaking very different from other preachers. Speaking with authority about sorrow, anxiety, sickness, and death. Penetrating the dark corners of human existence. Shattering illusion. Make no mistake about it; this is a dangerous Man.
Martin Bell - on Jesus Christ
August 2, 2003
He is with us on our journeys. He is there when we are home. He sits with us at our table. He knows about funerals and weddings and commencements and hospitals and jails and unemployment and labor and laughter and rest and tears. He knows because He is with us - He comes to us again and again - until we can say, It's You! It's You!
Bob Benson
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Journey Home: A Walk with Bob Benson By Bob Benson Bob Benson was never at a loss to capitalize on an idea. This particular idea hit him on our family trip to Europe. When we arrived at the London airport, all around us tour groups were being met by very official looking leaders that carried tall signs over their heads with the name of their group displayed. Bob decided that if they could have a sign, he could too. In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Bob Benson's death, his wife, Peg, and family friend and writer Karen Dean Fry offer you a rare opportunity to share intimately in the life journey of this special man. The journey Home includes reflections from many whose lives Bob touched, include James Dobson, Amy Grant, Gloria Gaither, and others. Their words are a tribute to his legacy. |
November 11, 2002
When God doesn't want me to do something, I definitely know it. When he wants me to do something, even if it means going outside my comfort zone, I know that too. I feel pushed in the direction I need to go... I try to stand up for my faith at school... It can be discouraging, but it can also be rewarding... I will die for my God. I will die for my faith. It's the least I can do for Christ dying for me.
Cassie Rene Bernall
(A 17-year-old from Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, USA who died April 20, 1999)
September 4, 2003
Prayer is a wine which makes glad the hearts of people... it moistens the dry soil of the conscience, it brings about the perfect absorption of the food of good actions, and distributes them into all the members of the soul; strengthening faith, giving vigor to hope, rendering charity active and yet well ordered, and shedding an unction over the whole character.
Bernard
Biography
September 24, 2002
Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Biography
November 13, 2005
You ask then how I knew He was present, when His ways can in no way be traced? He is life and power, and as soon as He enters in, He awakens my slumbering soul; He stirs and soothes and pierces my heart, for before it was hard as stone, and diseased.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Biography
March 1, 2007
You must consider other relationships if you would understand that which is proper to the Bride. A slave feels fear before his lord; a hireling looks for wages; a pupil gives attention to his teacher; a son honours his father. But she who asks a kiss, she loves. Love is the highest of all gifts, supremely so when it is rendered back to God, who is its source. And the mutual sweet affection between the Word and the soul cannot more sweetly be expressed than by thus callng them the Bridegroom and the Bride. For between bride and bridegroom all is held in common; neither calls anything their own or possesses a single thing the other does not share. They have but one inheritance, one home, one table and one couch; they are in fact one flesh. Fitly then, the soul who loves is called the bride.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Biography
April 13, 2007
You ask then how I knew He was present, when His ways can in no way be traced? He is life and power, and as soon as He enters in, He awakens my slumbering soul; He stirs and soothes and pierces my heart, for before it was hard as stone, and diseased.
Bernard of Clairvaux
Biography
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Talks on the Song of Songs By Bernard of Clairvaux Bernard of Clairvaux, founder of the Cistercian monastic order, devoted eighteen years of his life to composing sermons on the Song of Songs, a brief, eight-chapter secular love song in the Old Testament. In his writings, St. Bernard looks beyond the obvious literal interpretations of the text, using the passionate poetry as a springboard into a major exposition of Scripture and a detailed analysis of the spiritual life. In this volume, Bernard Bangley presents a modern, accessible edition of St. Bernard's sermons, offering a glimpse of St. Bernard's personal spiritual experience as well as his theology. A list of recommended reading is included at the back of the book. Having taken an annual retreat with Cistercian monks for the past twenty years, where collections of St. Bernard's writings abound and silence prevails, Bernard Bangley notes that his book is "one of the fruits of Cistercian hospitality." |
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.
June 28, 2003
The Scriptures include or allude to just about every approach to worship there is: organized, spontaneous, public, private, simple, complex, ornate or plain. Yet there is no comment anywhere about any one way being preferred over another. Rather, it is the spiritual condition of the worshiper that determines whether or not God is at work.
Harold Best
Home Page
October 30, 2005
We do not go to church to worship, but, already at worship, we join our brothers and sisters in continuing those actions that should have been going on-privately, familially, or even corporately - all week long.
Harold Best
Home Page
January 9, 2002
No mortal man or devil can supersede the will of God for your life. If you lay hold of this truth, it will set you free. But there is only one person who can get you out of the will of God and that person is you.
John Bevere
Website
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Under Cover: Your Secret Place of Freedom |
January 17, 2002
I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
John Bevere
Website
More John Bevere Materials
June 3, 2002
Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted.
John Bevere
Website
September 14, 2002
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
April 9, 2008
All born-again people are in training for rulership. Since the supreme law of that future social order, called the kingdom of God, is agape love, therefore their apprenticeship and training is for the learning of deep dimensions of this love. But deep dimensions of this love are only learned in the school of suffering. Purity is one thing, and maturity is another. The latter comes only through years of suffering. If we suffer, we shall also reign - because where there is little suffering, there is little love; no suffering, no love; no love, no rulership.
Paul Billheimer
April 23, 2004
How much discouragement can you take for God? What would it take for you to quit your service to the Lord?
Clyde Billingsly
May 16, 2003
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
Josh Billings
Biography
September 18, 2002
Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.
William Blake
Archive
December 11, 2002
In the upshot there is only one answer for the preacher who wonders whether he is worthy to preach the sermon he has composed or for the writer who wonders whether he is worthy to write the religious book he is working on. The answer is: Of course not. To ask yourself: Am I worthy to perform this Christian task? is really the peak of pride and presumption. For the very question carries the implication that we spend most of our time doing things we are worthy to do. We simply do not have that kind of worth.
Harry Blamires
Short Biography
June 4, 2002
For daily need there is daily grace; for sudden need, sudden grace, and for overwhelming need, overwhelming grace.
John Blanchard
January 18, 2008
The problem with prayer is heightened by the fact that people often succumb either to the extreme of all form and no freedom, or the opposite extreme of all freedom and no form. The first extreme leads to a rote or impersonal approach to prayer, while the second produces an unbalanced and undisciplined prayer life that can degenerate into a litany of one 'gimme' after another.
Kenneth Boa
Reflection Ministries
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Face to Face Praying the Scriptures for Intimate Worship By Kenneth Boa Learn to "pray the Scriptures" and approach both your Bible reading and your prayer life in a whole new way! In this useful devotional, Dr. Boa guides you through over 90 Scripture-based prayers of adoration, confession, renewal, petition, intercession, affirmation, and thanksgiving---reacquainting you with God's Word as a rich wellspring of worship! 324 pages, softcover from Zondervan. |
November 2, 2001
God has not abdicated His throne. He will not forever tolerate man's inhumanity to man. He sees, He knows, He understands--and He still reigns. Whatever has happened this day, whatever happens tomorrow, He is still in control. Nothing escapes His watchful eye and He promises to hear the prayers of His children. Let us look to the Lord, Who IS our help and our refuge in the time of storm. And while we pray for those who sorrow, let us also pray for those who hate...may God save their never-dying souls.
Peggie C. Bohanon
Peggie's Place
April 20, 2007
He commonly brings His help in our greatest extremity, and that His finger may plainly appear in our deliverance. And this method He chooses that we may not trust upon anything that we see or feel, as we are always apt to do, but only His bare Word, which we may depend upon in every state.
A. H. Von Bogatzky
June 9, 2004
O brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgin slumbers.
Andrew A Bonar
February 3, 2004
The Lord is my peace. I shall not live in anxiety. He puts me under his wing of comfort and calms my spirit within me. He takes all my anxieties on Himself and helps me to focus on Him. Yes, though I walk through a time of grave uncertainties and fierce anxieties, I will not fret-for You are my peace. Your Word and Your presence calm me now. You hold my uncertainties in the palm of Your hand. You soothe my anxious mind-You smooth my wrinkled brow. Surely serenity and trust in You shall fill me all the days of my life. And I shall keep my mind stayed on You forever.
Judy Booth
December 9, 2001
Depend upon it, if you are bent on prayer, the devil will not leave you alone. He will molest you, tantalize you, block you, and will surely find some hindrances, big or little or both. And we sometimes fail because we are ignorant of his devices?I do not think he minds our praying about things if we leave it at that. What he minds, and opposes steadily, is the prayer that prays on until it is prayed through, assured of the answer.
Mary Warburton Booth
Personal Testimony
November 26, 2005
It is the duty of the pulpit to say the same things over and over and over again. They must be clothed in different phraseology, and illumined by fresh illustration, and approached by a new line of thought; but the things that are really worth saying must be said repeatedly.
Frank W. Boreham
Biography
November 7, 2002
When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.
Lamar Boschman
Ministry Site
March 10, 2007
There are seasons when to be still demands immeasurably higher strength than to act. Composure is often the highest result of power. To the vilest and most deadly charges Jesus responded with deep, unbroken silence, such as excited the wonder of the judge and the spectators. To the grossest insults, the most violent ill-treatment and mockery that might well bring indignation into the feeblest heart, He responded with voiceless complacent calmness. Those who are unjustly accused, and causelessly ill-treated, know what tremendous strength is necessary to keep silence to God.
Margaret Bottome
Biography
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