Posted in Uncategorized, tagged wallpaper downloads on June 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
What are you using for your iphone wallpaper currently. For several months I have had “By his wounds we are healed” from Isaiah 53. Recently I have decorated my iphone with “The Fields are White to Harvest.”
Here are a number of iphone wallpapers that will help you fix your eyes on Jesus.
Click here and download! A good way to remind you to keep looking to Jesus!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ed Welch, sickness, sin on June 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our daughter has been sick for awhile. Thankfully she is doing much better in recent days, but it has been a long haul. I have had several family members with lengthy sickness or life-threatening challenges as well. I have heard many of them relate the various things well-meaning people have said to them in an effort to help them, but in some cases were worthless, hurtful, or simply outright wrongheaded.
So I really appreciate this article by Ed Welch which begins:
Those who are sick among us are very gracious. They hear lunacy from the body of Christ but usually take it in stride.
Here are samples of “helpful” things said to a sick friend of mine.
1. Maybe there is sin in your heart that you forgot to confess.
2. There MUST be someone that you have not forgiven. (“Yes, and now that you just said this to me I am having a hard time forgiving you.” At least that is what I would be thinking.)
3. Coloring your hair can cause cancer, maybe that’s what is happening.
4. You don’t eat right.
5. It’s your medication. You need to stop taking it (from someone who didn’t know if this person was taking medication or why!).
Keep reading “Are Sin and Sickness linked?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged faithfuln on June 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I have been preaching from 1 Peter and the first 13 verses of this book emphasize God’s faithfulness. i have said often over the last few weeks that “God has been faithful, God is faithful now, and God will always be faithful.”
I believe that but it is also good to hear that from another person occasionally as well. So I’m thankful for the following thoughts from Terry Enns that reminded me of various areas of God’s faithfulness. I know I need this reminder regularly. I trust it will encourage you today as well. From Terry’s post “God is Faithful”:
He is faithful to complete the calling of the believer’s salvation.
Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.(1 Thess. 5:24)
God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (1 Cor. 1:9)
He is faithful to protect us from Satan.
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one. (2 Thess. 3:3)
God is faithful to Himself.
If we are faithless, He remains faithful, for He cannot deny Himself. (2 Tim. 2:13)
God is faithful to provide us strength, endurance, and a path of escape from trials and temptation.
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. (1 Cor. 10:13)
God is faithful to keep His covenant promises with Israel.
Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments (Dt. 7:9)
The unbelief of unbelievers does not nullify the faithfulness of God.
What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? (Rom. 3:3)
God is faithful in all that He does and is.
“The Rock! His work is perfect,
For all His ways are just;
A God of faithfulness and without injustice,
Righteous and upright is He. (Dt. 32:4)
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged comfort, J.I. Packer, Knowing God on June 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
J. I. Packer:
What matters supremely is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it — the fact that he knows me. I am graven on the palms of his hands. I am never out of his mind.
All my knowledge of him depends on his sustained initiative in knowing me. I know him because he first knew me, and continues to know me. He knows me as a friend, one who loves me; and there is not a moment when his eye is off me, or his attention distracted from me, and no moment, therefore, when his care falters.
This is momentous knowledge. There is unspeakable comfort — the sort of comfort that energizes, be it said, not enervates — in knowing that God is constantly taking knowledge of me in love and watching over me for my good. There is tremendous relief in knowing that his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench his determination to bless me.
Knowing God (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 41–42, emphasis added. HT
