10/12/2008
The Road
"I am sometimes discouraged by the way, but though winding and trying it is safe and short."
-- Puritan Prayers, Shortcomings
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05/08/2007
The Junkyard
"Gather your family and go visit a junkyard or a dump. Look at all the piles of 'treasures' that were formerly Christmas and birthday presents. Point out things that people worked long hours to buy and paid hundreds of dollars for, that ... marriages broke up over. Look at the remnants of gadgets and furnishings that now lie useless after their brief life span. Remind yourself that most of what you own will one day end up in a junkyard like this. And even if it survives on earth for a while, you won't.
When you examine the junkyard, ask yourself this question, 'When all that I ever owned lies abandoned, broken, useless and forgotten, what will I have done with my life that will last for eternity?"
-- Randy Alcorn
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04/20/2007
Suffering
When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again.
Warren W. Wiersbe
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03/27/2007
The Main Tragedy of Sin's Failure
"The tragedy is that Satan uses the guilt of these failures to strip you of every radical dream you ever had, or might have, and in its place give you a happy, safe, secure, American life of superficial pleasures until you die in your lakeside rocking chair, wrinkled and useless, leaving a big fat inheritance to your middle-aged children to confirm them in their worldliness. That’s the main tragedy."
- John Piper
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03/13/2007
Obedience
Obedience to Christ is non-negotiable. Salvation is only by grace, but those saved will be empowered to obey His commands by faith in the Savior's grace. Those who love Him will follow Him.
-- H.S. Christian
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03/07/2007
Deliberate Confidence
"Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time."
-- Oswald Chambers
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01/08/2007
The Light In the Darkness
"He who has not felt what sin is in the Old Testament knows little what grace is in the New. He who has not trembled in Moses, and wept in David, and wondered in Isaiah will rejoice little in Matthew, 
rest little in John. He who has not suffered under the Law will scarcely hear the glad sound of the gospel.”
-- R. W. Barbour
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12/27/2006
Acorns
"Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees..."
-Schumacher
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12/21/2006
Theology
"All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass: Christ Jesus came into this world to save sinners."
-- Archibald Alexander
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12/15/2006
Fruit
"Too many people long for the fruit and ignore the pain that leads to it. Betraying Jesus should be emotionally impossible."
-- John Piper
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