he loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah..

You see, Jesus doesn't just love the church, he loves you. You, singular are precious to him. He loves the one wanderer, the one out of fellowship. He loves that one who hurts others by his or her lack of diplomacy. He loves that one who has offended you. Jesus is concerned for them, so do not write them off, do not ignore them. Never give up on people. Go to them and seek to win them back. Persevere with them, hang in there with them, because Christ hung in there for us. Each one of us is precious to him.
David Cook

With a love like that
You know you should be glad... and then some.

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walk on..

ever wondered what the Christian life is like?

...it's joyful, there is fellowship, there is forgiveness, there is a place in God's family, there is the hope and assurance of the future. It's a very wonderful road, but it's a very difficult road, because you are constantly under the attacks of the evil one... you’ve got a very pagan world, offering you many alternatives... and you've got the tinder-box of your own sinful nature, ready to spark all the time.
Simon Manchester

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his and her circumstances..

Good morning, Lord.
What are you up to today?
May I be a part of it?
Amen.
Norman Grubb

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it's my life?

It's my life
And it's now or never
I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive
(It's my life)
My heart is like an open highway
Like Frankie said
I did it my way
I just want to live while I'm alive
'Cause it's my life!
From 'It's my life' by Jon Bon Jovi

At a recent Katoomba Christian Convention, one of the speakers, who was from a Buddhist background, gave his testimony of how he became a Christian. He said it started when he was walking along the beach with a friend of his from university. He asked his friend, 'What does it mean to be a Christian?' And his friend simply answered in this way: 'It means that I have lost control of my life to Jesus.'

Have you lost control of your life; your activities, your thought life, your looking, your gazing? Have you lost control of your life to Jesus?
David Cook

Matthew 5:27-30

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even better than the real thing?

To try to be happy by being admired by men, or loved by women, or warm with liquor, or full of lust, or getting possessions and treasures that turns you away from the love of God, and then the men, the women, the drink, the lust, the greed, take precedence over God, and they darken His light. And then we’re unhappy, and afraid, and angry, and fierce, and impatient and cannot pray, and cannot sit still. That is the bitter yolk of sin. And for this, we leave the mild and easy yolk of Christ.
Thomas Merton

Two insane views which operate in all our minds:

1. we think that God is not so good and if we get close to Him, He’ll stuff things up
   
2. we think that the substitutes can do the same job... but of course they never do.

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hourly daily..

Christianity is a full-time following of Jesus. There must be many people who say, "I couldn’t possibly come to Church, because I’m not prepared to give up an hour once a week", and unfortunately, there are many Christians who now think like this. But God doesn’t want you to give up an hour a week. He wants you to give up 24 hours, every day. And the paradox is, that when you give to the Lord Jesus, every hour of every day, you are more liberated than by hanging on to it for yourself.
Simon Manchester

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sand castles..

Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
CS Lewis, Mere Christianity

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