Johnny the Baptizer

Johnny the Baptizer

 

 

Matt. 18:4-5

Jesus said, “Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.”

 

Johnny's mother looked out the window and noticed him 'playing church' with their cat. He had the cat sitting quietly and he was preaching to it.

She smiled and went about her work.

 

A while later she heard loud meowing and hissing and ran back to the open window to see Johnny baptizing the cat in a tub of water.

She called out, 'Johnny, stop that! The cat is afraid of water!'

 

Johnny looked up at her and said,

'He should have thought about that before he joined my church.'

 

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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quote

 

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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quote

 

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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quote

 

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.

dW 01.14.08 - late arrival

 

scripture

 

Hebrews 1:8-12

But about the Son he says, "Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever, and righteousness will be the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy." He also says, "In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But you remain the same, and your years will never end."

 

quote

 

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
Francis Schaeffer

dW 01.09.08

 

scripture

 

Psalm 25:7-9

Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways; according to your love remember me, for you are good, O LORD. Good and upright is the LORD; therefore he instructs sinners in his ways. He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

 

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quote

 

To love your children for their perfection is nothing. To love them for their failures is to love them well. It is that love which will form the later person- the person whom failure cannot defeat.

Louis Binstock

dW 01.08.08

 

scripture

 

Isaiah 40:3-5

A voice of one calling: "In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

 

En Espanol

 

quote

 

The future is as bright as the promises of God.
William Carey

dW 01.06.08

 

scripture

 

Colossians 1:15-17

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

 

Colosenses 1:15-17

Él es la imagen del Dios invisible, el primogénito de toda creación, porque por medio de él fueron creadas todas las cosas en el cielo y en la tierra, visibles e invisibles, sean tronos, poderes, principados o autoridades: todo ha sido creado por medio de él y para él. Él es anterior a todas las cosas, que por medio de él forman un todo coherente.

 

quote

 

It seems to us that the most important work in the world is the work which is visible, which we can see: building a house, plowing the land, feeding cattle, gathering fruits; and that the work which is invisible, the work done by our soul, is not important.  But our invisible work at the improvement of our soul is the most important work in the world, and all other visible kinds of work are useful only when we do this major work.

Leo Tolstoy 

 

dW 01.05.08

 

SCRIPTURE

 

2 Corinthians 4:5-6  

For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.  For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.  

 

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THOUGHT

 

Paul writes above that God made His light shine in our hearts just as He made light shine out of darkness. A quick read will have you focus on the light and not the dark. To fully appreciate where we are, it is necessary for us to think about where we’ve been and who we were before we met Christ. God is the only light producing substance within our lives.

 

QUOTE

 

But when you take the Bible literally, for what it says, you have to come back to the fact that there is only one way of salvation; there's only one Savior.
Tim LaHaye

dW 12.24.08

 

scripture

 

Luke 6:46

Jesus speaking, “But why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?”

 

En Espanol

 

quote

 

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

thought

 

People love to think of Jesus as their Savior, and they should do so.

When they neglect that He is also their Lord, then they are imagining a Jesus of their own creation.

Jesus is our Savior and our Lord.