Thursday, May 26, 2016
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Quotes and Musings
"On the twenty-ninth of November, 1685, our pastor, Brother Fownes, died in Gloucester jail, having been kept there for two years and nine months a prisoner, unjustly and maliciously, for the testimony of Jesus and preaching the gospel." --Broadmead Baptist Church, Bristol -- And we think we Christians are really persecuted in America.
Open-Book Christian One reason life is so difficult, says C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), is that we try to be Christians without giving our whole self to Christ (Mere Christianity, 1952):
"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self— all your wishes and precautions— to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call ‘ourselves’, to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be ‘good’. We are all trying to let our mind and heart go their own way-- centered on money or pleasure or ambition— and hoping, in spite of this, to behave honestly and chastely and humbly. And that is exactly what Christ warned us you could not do. As He said, a thistle cannot produce figs. If I am a field that contains nothing but grass-seed, I cannot produce wheat. Cutting the grass may keep it short: but I shall still produce grass and no wheat. If I want to produce wheat, the change must go deeper than the surface. I must be plowed up and re-sown."
“I'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“I'm still discovering, right up to this moment, that it is only by living completely in this world that one learns to have faith. I mean living unreservedly in life's duties, problems, successes and failures, experiences and perplexities. In so doing, we throw ourselves completely into the arms of God.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Quotes and Musings
"The religion of liberalism demands there are no rivals. It isn't that liberals do not believe in God; they believe themselves to be gods over men."
- Dr. Emir Caner
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
- Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein
"It is a bad thing to be satisfied spiritually."
- Oswald Chambers
We need to quit acting like OT prophets and start acting like NT evangelists.
“Pray that we stand strong against external opposition and especially pray that we stand strong against internal struggles with sin, our true debilitating weakness.”
- Darlene N. Bocek
Thursday, April 28, 2016
Truth
The fool has said in his heart,“There is no God.”
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.
The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the Lord?
There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
Psalm 14:1-5
They are corrupt,
They have done abominable works,
There is none who does good.
The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men,
To see if there are any who understand, who seek God.
They have all turned aside,
They have together become corrupt;
There is none who does good,
No, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge,
Who eat up my people as they eat bread,
And do not call on the Lord?
There they are in great fear,
For God is with the generation of the righteous.
Psalm 14:1-5
The New King James Version. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1982.
In our day, the predominate American worldview is: synaptic firings and neurological road paths are verity. Simply put, Truth originates in OUR own mind.
This observation can be made in the halls of elite colleges, federal court rulings, Hollywood films, newspaper headlines, major corporations' announcements and actions and talking-head media moguls. The most recent evidence is the transgender bathroom debacle. Our society holds fast to 'we can be whatever we want and think and feel, and that is real, so it is truth.' The money-makers, educators, and legislators have now determined that this will be the way we move forward in America.
Remove God, as Nietzsche suggested, and Society will become whole. Well, we are removing God and any vestige of Him, and we will reap the rewards of such foolishness. "The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God'." In our world, people are now making the heart confession an act of cultural expression. Chaos and competing individual expressions are rampant.
As Christians, we need not ever endorse such foolishness. Rather, we ought to persuade them to draw near to God while He might be found. People are far more than misguided electro-chemical impulses; they are image-bearers. As such, they cannot and will not find their own way. We must share with them the only way and pray that God would turn on the light to this truth, lest they meander straight to judgement. Let us make this our goal: Vocally and Truthfully sharing Jesus.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
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