Christian. Pastor. Gym owner. Grateful husband & father
Bedford, England
Joined August 2009
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We will be assessed by the perfect Judge on that final Day. But whatever account we have to give for our many failures and faults, none of these will define us. Our God-given faith is what defines us.
— Dane Ortland, Finally Home: The Christian Hope of Heaven
Happy Lord’s Day!
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Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: "It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.
There are some things in life that we need to always have in plenty, even if we will only use a small portion. If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the 'medicine closet' and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That's why you should always have a nutrition choice!
Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it - they simply apply the consumer mentality to books- that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity."
Aslan's Warning:
"And soon, very soon, before you are an old man & an old woman,great nations in your world will be ruled by tyrants who care no more for joy, justice & mercy than the Empress Jadis. Let your world beware.That is the warning."
C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew
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Psalm 145:8–9
The LORD is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.
No matter the season, circumstances or the situation we find ourselves in, these verses will always remain true!
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“There’s a reason the Protestant Reformation lit up Europe.”
— Mark Dever 🔥
I watch this every year. Never gets old.
“..let us consider how to stir up one another to love & good works not neglecting to meet together…but encouraging one another…” Heb 10:24–25
As we gather:
1. Our hearts are stirred - love
2. Our lives are activated - good works
3. Our faith is strengthened - we’re encouraged
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“I have given Christ countless reasons not to love me. None of them changed His mind”.
— Paul Washer
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Psalm 119:147, “I rise before dawn and cry for help; I hope in your words”.
I can’t think of a better way to start your day!
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“When we look at our life through the lens of Scripture, we seldom lose our way. We can be real, but we don't get lost in our feelings”.
— Paul E. Miller
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“Seeing God’s activity in the details of our lives enhances the application of God’s Word. We actually undermine the impact of His Word if we define God’s speaking to narrowly”.
— Paul E. Miller
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Nicodemus: A Jew, learned, respected and powerful. (John 3)
Woman at the well: A Samaritan, a moral outcast, unschooled and despised. (John 4)
Both needed Jesus!
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“The assertion that we cannot have an awakening in these days is but the devil's lullaby to hush the church to sleep”.
— Arthur Wallis, In Thy Day of Thy Power
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”At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer”.
— Arthur Walis, In the Day of Thy Power
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The New Testament, I suggest, must be read so as to be understood, read within appropriate contexts, within an acoustic which will allow its full overtones to be heard. It must be read with as little distortion as possible, and with as much sensitivity as possible to its different levels of meaning. It must be read so that the stories, and the Story, which it tells can be heard as stories, not as rambling ways of declaring unstoried ‘ideas’. It must be read without the assumption that we already know what it is going to say, and without the arrogance that assumes that ‘we’—whichever group that might be—already have ancestral rights over this or that passage, book, or writer. And, for full appropriateness, it must be read in such a way as to set in motion the drama which it suggests.
-The New Testament and the People of God
Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” John 1:46
There is often an exception to the rule, what an invitation Nathanael had. That invitation is still open to us today…
“Come and see”.
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