Category Archives: Quote

Every heard someone should quote that? I enjoy reading and thinking over good quotes. It is fulfilling of the idea learn from one another.

give up your resolutions

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I gave up doing New Year’s Resolutions about three years ago because I never kept them and ended up condemning myself for my “failure”. I hope you will give up yours too and exchange resolutions for goals. Every year I do try to set a goal for what I hope God will do in my life that year. What’s the difference? One is about making much of me. The other is about God making much of himself through me. New Year’s resolutions are generally started with the best of intentions and never fulfilled. I try to listen and wait on God to see what he’s going to do each new year. Why? He’s faithful, even when I am not (maybe especially when I am not). I also change during that period. If it’s his will, it will happen. If not, no biggie. It’s a win, win. Continue reading →

Why honor Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]”

16 April 1963
My Dear Fellow Clergymen:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms. Continue reading →

Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?

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William Blake was born November 28, 1757. Two hundred and fifty two years after his birth his voice still speaks. His voice speaks not of himself but of his great love the Lamb of God. One of his most famous poems and a favorite of John Piper’s is now one of my favorites. Piper was right when he said that it is a good launch into Advent to think of Christ as the Lamb. Oh, the humility of Christ to be called and to become a Little Lamb as that defenseless baby in a manger. Humility was incarnated in the first advent. Continue reading →

Needle Point

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Jesus: It is easier to push a camel through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
Disciples: What? How can this be?
Jesus: All things are possible for God even the things impossible with men.

If you are reading this you are likely a rich person. Probably not Bill Gates rich but rich enough to own a mobile communication device, internet connection, and likely a comfy place to view it in. Compared to the rest of the world most of us are incredibly rich.
Go read Karsten Piper’s poem for a good thought or two on how we should view ourselves.

Best new Spurgeon quote

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sp019The bishops of God’s church, the professed leaders of the Lord’s hosts, the pretended followers of the Redeemer, have done more damage to the church than all the church’s enemies. If the church were not a divine thing, protected by God, she must have ceased to exist, merely through the failure and iniquity of her own professed friends. I do not wonder that the church of God survived martyrdom and death; but I do marvel that she has survived the unfaithfulness of her own children, and the cruel backsliding of her own members.

Found over at pyromaniacs