dW 01.23.09

 

scripture

 

1 Corinthians 1:18-19

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate." (Isaiah 29:14)

 

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Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people! 

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. 

Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be a miracle. 

Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

- Phillips Brooks

dW 01.21.09

 

scripture

 

2 Peter 1:3

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.

 

Rom.8:16-17, 32

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory… He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

 

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With all this limitless resource to inherit in this life (resources of the Bible, of the Spirit, of the community of believers), why then, O why, do we settle for minimum spirituality? These scriptures just quoted shatter all our excuses for carnal Christianity and explode all our feeble bumper-sticker excuses on bumper-sticker evangelism: "Christians are not perfect, just forgiven." Some backslider must have written that one.

 

Leonard Ravenhill, What Do I Still Lack?

 

 

dW 01.19.08

 

scripture

 

Acts 16:22-24

The crowd joined in the attack against Paul and Silas, and the magistrates ordered them to be stripped and beaten. After they had been severely flogged, they were thrown into prison, and the jailer was commanded to guard them carefully. Upon receiving such orders, he put them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks. (Read more…)

 

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The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
Tertullian (b. 160 - d. 225)

 

persecution

 

January 19, 2009

LRA rebels 'torch crowded church' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7837526.stm

Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army has reportedly torched a church crowded with worshippers holding a prayer vigil in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

 

January 18, 2009

Kony rebels burn hundreds in church http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/668519

Hundreds of civilians were on Saturday burnt to death in a church by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels.