Thursday, May 25, 2006

(it's good) to be free..

Get this! In his Reformation treatise The Liberty of the Christian Man, Martin Luther wrote:
The Christian person is the most free lord of all, subject to none. The Christian person is the most dutiful servant of all, subject to everyone.

We reign over all things in Christ. But we reign in order to serve Christ, and to serve the Christ who is on our neighbour. We reign, therefore, in order to be servants.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

enthused to pray..

two incentives/reasons in Luke 11 why we ought to be enthusiastic about speaking to God:

God is more willing than a friend
God is more caring than the finest father

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of God's willingness.
George Mueller

Tuesday, May 16, 2006

eternal perspective of the spotless mind..

When I reach the end of my days a moment or two from now, I must look backward on something more meaningful than the pursuit of houses and land and stocks and bonds. I will consider my earthly existence to have been wasted unless I can recall a loving family, a consistent investment in the lives of people and an earnest attempt to serve the God who made me. Nothing else makes much sense.
Dr James Dobson


‘When I reach the end of my days a moment or two from now …’ Let us live now with a view of that moment.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

love your enemies.

Who are your enemies? Who are the people who consider you as enemies? Who are the people who show contempt for you? Who are the people you find hard to love? Spend some time now in silence to pray for just one of them. As you pray, ask God to give you opportunities to move toward that person to do good, that God will strengthen you so that you will not allow yourself to be compromised by their antagonistic attitude to you. Pray also that you will be unfailingly kind and generous to them, as your heavenly Father is kind and generous to you.
David Cook


Love your enemies.

Matthew, chapter 5, verses 43-48

Monday, May 08, 2006

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