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Some thoughts to help us face 2011
Next year will inevitably bring some unexpected blessings and challenges. Be sure the blessings will be exquisite while the challenges will be excruciating. I have half a dozen special projects and goals on the radar that presently seem rather daunting. So much so I wouldn’t mind taking all of next year off. But with a [...]
60 Years Ago Today: “He is no fool”
. . Having recently finished the rigours of college life, he was enjoying the free time living with his parents allowed. Only the day before he had finished reading missionary David Brainerd’s journals and wrote “I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words.” Sixty years ago today, as he sat down to write [...]
A. W. Pink on God’s Sovereignty
I’m at that busy point in the semester where if it’s not an exam it’s an assignment due! So I’ve decided to let someone else—namely A. W. Pink—take my post for the week. This is from his The Attributes of God. If you haven’t read it yet, I encourage you to do so. It’s chapters [...]
Glorifying God in Conflict
“It is important to realise that if you do not glorify God when you are involved in a conflict, you will inevitably glorify someone or something else. By your actions you will show either that you have a big God or that you have a big self and big problems. To put it another way, [...]
John Vaughn on Disabilities
“A handicap is a responsibility! It is an exclamation point in a person’s life message. Whatever we’re saying with our lives, we say more emphatically if we are disabled.” — “Becky was trying to look through a picture book. For about ten minutes she had been trying to turn the page with her little, fingerless [...]
J. Oswald Sanders on Leadership
“The young man of leadership caliber will work while others waste time, study while others snooze, pray while others daydream. Slothful habits are overcome, whether in thought, deed, or dress. The emerging leader eats right, stands tall, and prepares himself to wage a good warfare. He will without reluctance undertake the unpleasant task that others [...]
Jay Adams on Delivery in Preaching
“It is the purpose of the passage that must be uppermost. This is true just as well for delivery as for anything else: God’s purpose must control all. All error in preaching, in one way or another, stems from placing our own purposes or personalities above God’s. The Bible exalts Christ, not men. He should [...]
C. S. Lewis on Balance
“A Christian must not be either a Totalitarian or an Individualist. I feel a strong desire to tell you–and I expect you feel a strong desire to tell me–which of these two errors is the worse. That is the devil getting at us. He always sends errors in pairs–pairs of opposites. And he always encourages [...]
J. Oswald Sanders on Reading
“A country minister in Australia known to this writer was a great book lover. Early in his ministry he determined to develop a biblically and theologically literate congregation. He helped his people learn to love books and led them into progressively deeper and weightier spiritual literature. The result is that a number of farmers in [...]
John Angell James on Earnestness in Preaching
“There around you are immortal souls perishing in their sins, each one of more value than the whole material universe, each capable of being saved by your ministrations, and sure to acquire, by neglecting them, a deeper guilt and a heavier condemnation: there, in sight of your faith, is the Son of God, bleeding upon [...]
Jerry Bridges on Pain
“God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish His purpose. And His purpose is for His glory and our good. Therefore, we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain.” Taken from Trusting God, p. 102.
Jim Elliot on the Minister’s Vocabulary
“Sense a need for a voice and vocabulary that will not only reach the saints—the brethren and the fundamentalists—it must be that I can learn to speak fresh words startlingly enough to rouse them. But for the modernist, I must have terms so well defined and blunt as to maintain the similitude of absolute truth [...]
