November 2010
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“If we get away from dwelling on the tragedy of God on the Cross in our...”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, Nov. 25
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he will never be the same
When a man encounters the holiness of God, one of two things happens. He is either completely obliterated, or he is transformed into something new. Either way, he will never be the same.
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The Love of God
This is currently my favorite hymn text. The innovative worship band Ascend The Hill has a great version of it that you can listen to HERE.
The love of God is greater far Than tongue or pen can ever tell; It goes beyond the highest star, And reaches to the lowest hell; The guilty pair, bowed down with care, God gave His Son to win; His erring child He reconciled, And pardoned from his...
The Church Or The Theater? DL Moody
Another thing, I think, that grieves the Spirit, is the miserable policy of introducing questionable entertainments into the church. There are lotteries, for instance, that we have in many churches. If a man wants to gamble, he doesn’t have to go to some gambling den; he can stay right in the church. And there are fairs- bazaars, as they call them- where they have raffles and grab bags....
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We speak with Him directly
We speak with Him directly. It wasn’t always this way…
Numbers 12:6-8
Listen to what I say: If there is a prophet among you from the LORD, I make Myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.
Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My household. I speak with him directly, openly, and not in riddles,
he sees the form of the LORD.
Hebrews 3:1-6...
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our example
493 years ago, this past Sunday, Martin Luther hammered his 95 thesis on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. On Sunday I read Exodus 1-7, in which God calls a shepherd with a speech impediment to deliver His nation from slavery.
These are good reminders of how God uses small, ill-equipped no-names to accomplish big, God-sized purposes. That’s what He does.
Heroes are good....