scripture
Psalm 91:1
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
quote
Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.
- Rich Mullins
Friday, September 12, 2008
dW 09.12.08
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
dW 09.10.08
scripture
John 15:9-17
Jesus speaking to his disciples said, "As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. This is my command: Love each other.
quote
I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.
- Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker Movement 1933
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
dW 09.09.08
scripture
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
quote
A real Christian is an odd number. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen; talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see; expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another; empties himself in order to be filled; admits he is wrong so he can be declared right; goes down in order to get up; is strongest when he is weakest; richest when he is poorest and happiest when he feels the worst. He dies so he can live; forsakes in order to have; gives away so he can keep; sees the invisible; hears the inaudible; and knows that which passes knowledge.
A.W. Tozer
Monday, September 8, 2008
dW 09.08.08
SCRIPTURE
James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
QUOTE
To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. As Thomas Merton put it, 'A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.'
- Brennan Manning, excerpt from The Ragamuffin Gospel
Friday, September 5, 2008
dW 09.05.08
SCRIPTURE
Ester 4:12-14
When Esther's words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: "Do not think that because you are in the king's house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"
QUOTE
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
JN Mitchell
Thursday, September 4, 2008
dW 09.04.08
SCRIPTURE
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart."
QUOTE
My friend told me that Jesus never spoke to a prostitute. I was astounded that he could say such a thing. Of course he did. I pulled out my sword ready to do battle and he said, “Jesus never saw a prostitute. He saw a child of God with whom He was dearly in love with”.
- paraphrase of a story told in Shane Claiborne’s book Irresistible Revolution
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
dW 09.03.08
scripture
Psalm 28:6-7
Praise be to the LORD, for he has heard my cry for mercy.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped.
My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song.
quote
Worry is the interest we pay on tomorrow's troubles.
Unknown
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
dW 09.02.08
Scripture
Luke 1:77-79
Zechariah filled with the Holy Spirit prophesied saying, “And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him, to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace."
Quote
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
- Desmond Tutu
Friday, August 29, 2008
dW 08.29.08
Scripture
John 12:44-46
Then Jesus cried out, "When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.”
Quote
Sin is like seed- to cover it is to cultivate it.
Unknown
Thursday, August 28, 2008
dW 08.29.08
scripture
John 8:10-11
Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"
"No one, sir," she said. "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
quote
We are what we believe we are.
C. S. Lewis
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