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Around The Horn – 5/24/10
Today I want to give a long overdue tip of the cap to some people who encourage me on a regular basis. These are some quotes that have stuck with me over the past week or so from their blogs, and I...
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Reflecting on Psalm 86
“Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy.” - Psalm 86:1 (ESV) Book Three of the Psalms contains Psalms 73-89, most of these written by either Asaph or the Sons of Korah. Just...
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In The Desert
“Do not complain about what you have lost, and do not yearn to have it given back again, for then you are like Israel who wished to turn back to Egypt. God will lead you on further. Instead of the...
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Were It Not For Grace
“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” – John 6:40 (ESV) *** Today marks my 3rd...
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Marks of the True Christian (Pt. 1)
“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” – Romans 12:9 (ESV) It’s sad that many of the lines drawn for us these days in the world are in gray, rather than black or white,...
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How Goes The Battle ?
“Victory is the only satisfactory evidence that you have a saving religion. You like good sermons perhaps. You respect the Bible, and read it occasionally. You say your prayers night and morning. You...
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Pitfall
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.” – John 10:10 (ESV) Way back in the 80s there was a game for the Atari entertainment system...
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The Source
“The Christian is not like an automobile with a self-contained power source; rather, he is like an electric motor that must be constantly connected to an outside current for its power. Our source of...
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Expectations
“Men’s success seldom equals their expectations. We must use means, but not trust to them: if we succeed, we must give God the praise; if crossed, we must submit to his will. Those who put off the...
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Anxious For Nothing (Pt. 1)
“And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?” – Matthew 6:27 (ESV) A few weeks ago I received a book from Grace To You called Anxious For Nothing, written by John...
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Anxious For Nothing (Pt. 2)
I finished John MacArthur’s book Anxious For Nothing this week. In my last post, I talked about how Pastor John exhorts us to observe God’s care for us and weigh our anxiety against it. He then...
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When We Pray
“We are told that Jesus was ‘moved with compassion’ for people. Compassion was an evident feature of every healing in the New Testament…If we have God-given compassion and concern for others, our...
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Judas and Nicodemus
“In everything there must be a beginning. It is not those who make the most flaming profession of religion at first, who endure the longest and prove the most steadfast. Judas Iscariot was an apostle...
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Unity With The Father
“Concerning the unity of the Father and the Son, we must be content to believe reverently, what we cannot grasp mentally or explain distinctly. Let it suffice us to know that our Savior was not like...
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Spiritual Champagne
“The Lord is so good and always gives me a large dose of Spiritual Champagne every morning which braces one up for the day and night. Of late I have had such glorious times. I generally wake about...
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Psalm 100:3
“‘Man, know thyself,’ is a wise aphorism, yet to know our God is truer wisdom; and it is very questionable whether a man can know himself until he knows his God. Jehovah is God in the fullest, most...
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In His Sovereignty
“What God in His sovereignty may yet do on a world-scale I do not claim to know. But what He will do for the plain man or woman who seeks His face I believe I do know and can tell others. Let any man...
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Changing Times
Most people who know me well would probably say I’m a creature of habit. I’m a routine-oriented person and have probably been that way as long as I can remember. The past year or so has changed that...
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Colossians 1:20
“I remember that one day, as I was travelling into the country, and musing on the wickedness and blasphemy of my heart, and considering the enmity that was in me to God, that scripture came into my...
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A Child of God
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” –...
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