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May 3, 2012
The challenge before us is God's mandate to expand His kingdom worldwide by willing worshipers of God from every tongue, tribe and nation. The reality is that all peoples need to worship God and proclaim Christ in their own languages and cultural styles. This requires that those various peoples be approached and affirmed in communication, proclamation, worship and learning styles; ceremonies, rituals, metaphors and symbol systems that make sense to them.
Byron Spradlin
Artists in Christian Testimony
January 4, 2003
God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.
Kelly Sparks
November 23 - 24, 2004
You look back on your life. You may be disappointed in many ways with your part in the business. You may be able to see many falterings and blunderings and mistakes that you on your side made. You may have sometimes felt that you were not the person for that job; God had made a mistake. Some of us have felt like that. And yet, as we look more deeply into God's ways with us and know God's principles, we see a wonderful logic in it all. You and I are called for something, laid hold of by God for something, put by God into something, and we feel, God has made a mistake: I am not the person for this, I ought never to have come into this, I have no qualifications for this, I am altogether the wrong peg here! And yet, somehow or other, God does it. He enables you, He carries you through, He accomplishes the work to your own surprise and wonder As you lay hold of the Holy Spirit, it is done - that is, if you do not sink down into yourself and give up and draw out because of what you are but you lay hold of the Holy Spirit and you get through and marvel that you have got through, that the Lord has done this thing through you, through me.
T. Austin Sparks
Website
August 21, 2005
Yes, His ways are past finding out. "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform", but He is consistent with His principles. A life in the Spirit is one succession of confirmations that God is working out a plan.
T. Austin Sparks
Website
August 29, 2011
If Jesus Christ is my master in the sense of being my Lord, then all the plans of my life must be laid down for His supervision and judgment and authority. I go where He sends me; I do what He tells me; I stay where He bids me.
Robert Speer
January 8, 2010
O God of Second Chances and new Beginnings, here I am again.
Nancy Spiegelberg
I'd Like To Ask God
December 2, 2002
Worship is the intentional attitudes and actions of focusing on God. It is the life-discipline we ought repeatedly to exercise and develop. It grows out of the foundational motive of deep and wonder-based gratitude to God for His salvaging and sustaining us.
Byron Spradlin
Artists in Christian Testimony
August 23, 2001
A wise person truly said, "It ought to be as impossible to forget that there is a Christian in the house as it is to forget that there is a ten-year-old boy in it."
Roger J. Squire
June 16, 2008
If Jesus needed to pray - being what He was, how must we need it - being what we are.
James Stalker
Writings
April 2, 2002
Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes, and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt. Send me where Thou wilt. Work out Thy whole will in my life at any cost, now and forever.
Betty Scott Stam
Biography
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
February 13, 2004
Confession is telling God (our Abba, Father) the truth about our sin; but too often we live as if we have no need for his forgiveness. What a odd blessing when God uses the pain of our "bungling" to bring us to our knees and draw us back into a proper relationship with him!
Chip Stam
Carl Stam Website
January 29, 2006
It seems we are tempted to put our faith in a host of things other than work of Christ on the cross. Some have even placed faith in faith itself, or in a search for fulfillment or even in a worship style or philosophy.
Chip Stam
Carl Stam Website
April 16, 2010
Chesterton wrote, "There are two ways to get enough; one is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less." How does this translate into our worship life as Christians? If thoughts of material things command the greater part of our attention and energy, can we really be serving and worshipping the Master as we should? I find that as I ascribe worth and honour to our loving and sovereign God, he allows me to desire less of the distractions, less of the other gods. But the struggle for the throne continues.
Chip Stam
Carl Stam Website
December 15, 2010
Shall we retreat and turn back from our high calling in Christ Jesus; or dare we advance at God's command in face of the impossible?...Let us remind ourselves that the Great Commission was never qualified by clauses calling for advance only if funds were plentiful and no hardship or self-denial involved. On the contrary, we are told to expect tribulation and even persecution, but with it victory in Christ.
John Stam
Online Article on his Martyrdom
May 2, 2004
A rattlesnake, if cornered, will sometimes become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against others is - a biting of oneself. We think that we are harming others in holding these spites and hates, but the deeper harm is to ourselves.
Eli E. Stanley
Biography
November 18, 2003
When Stanley went out in 1871 and found Livingstone, he spent some months in his company but Livingstone never spoke to him about spiritual things. Throughout those months Stanley watched the old man. Livingstone's habits were beyond his comprehension and so was his patience. He could not understand Livingstone's sympathy for the Africans. For the sake of Christ and His gospel the missionary doctor was patient, untiring, eager, spending himself and being spent for his master. Stanley wrote, "When I saw that unwearied patience, that unflagging zeal, those enlightened sons of Africa, I became a Christian at his side, though he never spoke to me about it."
Henry M Stanley
Biography
August 22, 2002
Strength, rest, guidance, grace, help, sympathy, love - all from God to us!! What a list of blessings!
E. Stenbock
September 15, 2004
The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Biography and Bibliography
August 2, 2002
Revival is the people of God living in the power of an ungrieved, unquenched Spirit.
James A. Stewart
September 22, 2008
As Christians, we ought to be using records to reach people with Jesus; instead, we use Jesus to sell records to Christians.
Pete Stewart
May 6, 2008
Bitterness is a habit that can seriously hinder our spiritual journey. When life becomes difficult, when it doesn't seem as if God is providing for our needs, when we're not getting what we want when we want it, we have a decision to make. We can hold onto our faith and trust that God has an answer in mind, or we can gripe and moan and complain and let our souls become embittered. Expecting an oasis, but finding a bitter stream? Don't lose sight of the grace of God. - (Beside A Quiet Stream)
Penelope J. Stokes
Biography
November 22, 2009
God knows how hard you've tried. How tired you get, how empty your soul can feel even when your days and nights are crowded with all you do in the name of the Lord. God knows the longings of your spirit, unfulfilled places of your heart. God knows your needs, even when you don't have a clue.
Penelope J. Stokes
Biography
October 11, 2002
The English word "worship" is derived from the Anglo-Saxon "weorthscripe", meaning to ascribe worth, to pay homage, to reverence or venerate. Interestingly, the Hebrew word most commonly translated "worship" in the Old Testament is "shachah" which literally means "to prostrate oneself, bow down, fall down flat, do reverence." The most commonly used Greek word is "proskuneo" which means "to kiss the hand, to prostrate oneself.
David T Stone
June 11, 2003
Worship is a feast in which God is the host, the cook, the waiter, and the meal itself.
Sam Storms
Enjoying God Ministries
November 29, 2010
If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonour Him. To put it in other words, worship is first and foremost a feasting on all that God is for us in Jesus. This is because God is most glorified in you when you are most satisfied in Him. Or again, you are His pleasure when He is your treasure. Which is to say that God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.
Sam Storms
Enjoying God Ministries
May 13, 2009
I did not know my savage thirst until You led me to Your well. I did not know I lived in chains until You freed me.
Randy Stonehill
Website
March 7, 2002
The Greeks had a race in their Olympic games that was unique. The winner was not the runner who finished first. It was the runner who finished with his torch still lit. I want to run all the way with the flame of my torch still lit for Him.
Joseph M. Stowell
Short Biography
September 28, 2004
I have an unquenchable desire to slow down and find my life going deeper in my walk with Christ. I want to meet him in the depths of my soul, away from the stress and press of everything on top. A relationship with Christ is the key to fulfilling our deepest longings. All of life is about filling the void that sin and separation from him have created within. Filling the emptiness with piles of things, earthly friendships, satisfying experiences, and sensual encounters ultimately proves to achieve less than what we had hoped for. Christ is the only one who fits.
Joseph M. Stowell
Short Biography
April 11, 2005
Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him, conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening.
C. Neil Strait
May 1, 2008
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
Neil Strait
Short Biography
August 16, 2008
Forgiveness is our command. Judgement is not.
Neil Strait
November 28, 2006
Obedience has a price, too - death to our own ways - but it also promises a great reward: the commendation of the Father. So lay aside all your excuses. Then take hold of His plan for your life, and watch Him do mighty works through you.
Joy Strang
Spirit Led Woman
March 25, 2011
So how do we hold ourselves to a standard without becoming legalistic? By relying on the Holy Spirit for both direction and empowerment. He will tell us what to do to resist temptation and grow in holiness; and He will give us the grace to overcome and follow through - when we do as He says. If our disciplines are not led by the Spirit, they are merely dead works - good as they might seem.
Joy Strang
Spirit Led Woman
November 5, 2002
God forgave us without any merit on our part; therefore we must forgive others, whether or not we think they merit it.
Lehman Strauss
Biography
September 15, 2008
We cannot be right with God when we are wrong with others.
Lehman Strauss
Biography
November 29, 2009
We ought not to keep score of the number of times others have hurt us. God keeps records, and vengeance belongs to him.
Lehman Strauss
Biography
Spoken forgiveness, no matter how heartfelt, works best when we do not demand the response we want. I mean that when we tell people we forgive them, we must leave them free to respond to our good news however they are inclined. If the response is not what we hoped for, we can go home and enjoy our own healing in private.
Lewis B. Smedes
Wiki
August 29, 2010
Notwithstanding what you have been told in the past or what you may feel in the present, when God thinks about you, feels for you, and sees you, He opens His mouth and sings with inexpressible joy! God's love for you is so infinitely intense that He quite literally sings for joy. The depth of His affection is such that mere words prove paltry and inadequate. So profoundly intimate is God's devotion to you that He bursts forth in sacred song. I'm talking about you. That's right, you, not just all the other people reading this article. I'm talking about each and every one of you who is convinced that no matter how many times I tell you God loves you, still you imagine He must have someone else in mind. No, He has you in mind.
Sam Storms
Enjoying God Ministries
February 4, 2012
I am persuaded that all of your problems are conceived and born in the sinful belief that something or someone other than Jesus Christ can quench the thirst of our souls.
C. Samuel Storms
Enjoying God Ministries
March 29, 2004
Gossip is a sin that comes very naturally to a lot of people, especially women. We love to talk about other people, but often we are cutting down those people and not lifting them up. Our gossip can tear apart even the closest friends. Make an effort to bring up something good about a person every time that you hear a negative comment and try to refrain from making negative comments yourself.
Streams of Light
June 14, 2007
God's way often conflicts with our own desires. His commands can seem foolish and outdated. They are not. God's way is so far above our way that we can barely comprehend. Know that His way is perfect. He knows what is best for us even when His way seem foolish.
Streams of Light
August 6, 2007
Says one who was Janet Erskine Stuart's assistant for some years, "She delighted in seeing her plan upset by unexpected events, saying that it gave her great comfort, and that she looked on such things as an assurance that God was watching over her stewardship, was securing the accomplishment of His will, and working out His own designs. Whether she traced the secondary causes to the prayer of a child, to the imperfection of an individual, to obstacles arising from misunderstandings, or to interference of outside agencies, she was joyfully and graciously ready to recognize the indication of God's ruling hand, and to allow herself to be guided by it."
Janet Erskine Stuart
December 12, 2005
How little chance the Holy Spirit has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
Charles Thomas (C. T.) Studd
Biography
August 17, 2010
Christ's call is to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; He came not to call scoffers but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to capture men from the devil's clutches and the very jaws of Hell. This can be accomplished only by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered devotion, in the power of the Holy Spirit, to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles Thomas (C. T. ) Studd
Biography
March 5, 2005
I know success or failure in my life or ministry does not depend on my own skill or even on external circumstances, it depends only on my faithfulness. God will give me the gifts necessary to do whatever He calls me to do, and He will not be hindered in His work by circumstances.
Lester Sumrall
Short Biography
October 4, 2005
Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday
Brief Biography
March 28, 2011
Lord, never was a magnet so powerful to draw to itself the hard steel, as Thou, the Lord, lifted up on the cross, art powerful to draw unto Thee the hearts of men. 0 beloved Lord, draw me through joy and sorrow, from all that is in the world to Thee and to Thy cross; form me, and shape me into Thine image here below, that I may enjoy Thee eternally in the glory whither Thou art gone.
Henry Suso
Biography and Online Works
April 20, 2006
Faith is the hand of the soul, and it is with it we must touch God.
Billy Sunday
Brief Biography
May 28, 2010
That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan Swift
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
December 10, 2007
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
Symeon
Biography
August 3, 2010
When a man walks in the fear of God he knows no fear, even if he were to be surrounded by wicked men. He has the fear of God within him and wears the invincible armor of faith. This makes him strong and able to take on anything, even things which seem difficult or impossible to most people. Such a man is like a giant surrounded by monkeys, or a roaring lion among dogs and foxes. He goes forward trusting in the Lord and the constancy of his will to strike and paralyze his foes. He wields the blazing club of the Word in wisdom.
Symeon
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