“When I think of a faithful willingness to serve, I remember a quiet little man from a church where I was a staff member. On Sundays his arrival was always unnoticed, for he would come long before anyone else. Yet he burrowed his old car into an obscure corner of the parking lot [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Quiet service
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Repentance and safety
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“To repent doesn’t mean to beat myself up or to try to make myself feel bad. It means to change my mind. It means to stop seeing things one way and to start seeing them another way, regardless of how I may feel or how things may look, and then to order my [...]
Work and the Christian (pt 5)
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“We tend either to devalue work or make it to important. On the one hand, we make it little more than a necessary evil, whose purpose is to enable us to do something else. Or, on the other hand, we turn it into a substitute god, in which our sense of value is [...]
Use me as You will
Posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Sovereign God, thy cause, not my own, engages my heart, and I appeal to thee with the greatest freedom to set up thy kingdom in every place where Satan reigns. Glorify thyself and I shall rejoice, for to bring honor to thy name is my sole desire. I adore thee, that thou art God, and [...]
The sabotage of idolatry
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“When we remove God from the center, we do not replace him with one false god; we replace him with many.”–Charles Drew
A bulwark never failing
Posted in hymns on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Pastor Steve Lawson relates, “Martin Luther is one of the key figures in church history, a man mightily used by God to bring reformation to the church. The year 1527 was the most difficult of his life. After ten demanding years of leading the Reformation, a dizzy spell overcome him in the middle of [...]
Wanted: Gifted servants!
Posted in Christian life on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
“Wanted: Gifted volunteers for difficult service in the local expression of the Kingdom of God. Motivation to serve should be obedience to God, gratitude, gladness, forgiveness, humility, and love. Service will rarely be glorious. Temptation to quit place of service will sometimes be strong. Volunteers must be faithful in spite of long hours, [...]
What to do with your economic stimulus check?
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Here’s a bold challenge from John Piper:
How will you make much of Christ with your “economic stimulus payment”? The president says it will be in the mail in time for Cinco de Mayo.
Clue: Nobody in the world will see you spend your money on yourself and conclude that Christ is your treasure. They will assume [...]
Whistling and Worshiping while you work: A Christian and his work (pt. 4)
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It has been over a week since I last spoke of the Christian and his work, but here is more from what I learned from Charles Drew’s A Journey Worth Taking.
To say that all work is sacred is to say that all work, like everything else, is for God. The seven dwarfs whistled while they [...]
More martyrs
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In 1932 John Stam from New Jersey traveled to China with the China Inland Mission. He did his language study, and then in 1933, he married Betty Scott. In September of 1934, John and Betty had a baby girl. Several months later after the birth of their daughter, on December 6, 1934, [...]
