all that you can't leave behind..

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis

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whatever makes you happy?

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied. To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here. Fathers and mothers, husbands, wives, or children, or the company of earthly friends, are but shadows; but God is the substance. These are but scattered beams, but God is the sun. These are but streams. But God is the ocean. Therefore it becomes us to spend this life only as a journey toward heaven, as it becomes us to make the seeking of our highest end and proper good, the whole work of our lives; to which we should subordinate all other concerns of life. Why should we labour for, or set our hearts on, anything else, but that which is our proper end, and true happiness?
Jonathan Edwards

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amazement of unbelief..

Someone has written an alternative to the hymn, 'Amazing Grace'. It's called the song of the non-convert… and it goes like this:

Amazing grace, how strange the thought, of trying to reach me.
I am quite lost, but won't be found. And blind, but will not see.
'Twas grace that tried to make me fear. And grace would then relieve.
But precious things are all ignored. So now, I don't believe.
Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come.
'Tis grace who's brought me safe thus far, but I am strangely dumb.
When you’ve been there, ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun
Perhaps I'll see the call I'd missed, and wish I'd too begun.


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looking for a good cause?

For a Christian to live for self instead of serving others, would mean that we take no heed of our elder brother, our Lord - the Son of Man who came to serve rather than to be served. Service must run in the family.

The coat of arms is the cross. The motto is service. That is what life is about. So give yourselves to service.
David Cook

to look out for the interests of others, we look out for the interests of Jesus Christ.. what a challenge!

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