scripture
1 Peter 3:13-14
Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened."
quote
The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.
James Christensen
scripture
1 Corinthians 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength.
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For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of man's mind.
Frederick Faber
daily Word
http://the-daily-word.blogspot.com/
scripture
Matthew 6:25-26, (27-34)
Jesus speaking, "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?"
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What a world this would be if we could forget our troubles as easily as we forget our blessings.
Unknown
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What are we up to?
daily Word
http://the-daily-word.blogspot.com/
scripture
Isaiah 66:2
Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the LORD. "This is the one I esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, and trembles at my word.”
quote
Do you tremble at His word? Or do you look for loopholes around it? Do you excuse your sin? Do you avoid the Word now because you know it is going to talk to you and talk about you? People come to me all the time and say “Brother Paul, I have a new relationship with God”. And then I go to 1 John chapter 1 verse 8 and say, “Do you have a new relationship with sin?” Because if you don’t have a new relationship with sin then you don’t have a new relationship with God. Are you sensitive to sin?
Paul Washer
Sermone titled “Examine Yourself”
A message that has angered many!
news
Today is my last day of work in Bakersfield. Saturday we are driving both our cars and a uhaul of all our stuff to our new apartment in Clovis. Things have been crazy. I am registered for classes at Fresno Pacific and ProU Fresno has a desk waiting for me. Sorry for skipping a few days these past two weeks. The daily Word will be back Wednesday, June 27.
scripture
Luke 18:9-14
To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everybody else, Jesus told this parable: "Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood up and prayed about himself: 'God, I thank you that I am not like other men—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.' "But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' "I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
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Prayer is the language of the poor. The self sufficient does not need to pray. The self satisfied don’t want to pray. The self righteous can’t pray. The only ones of us that can pray are those that realize that we need a power outside of ourselves. – Leonard Ravenhill
scripture
Romans 6:5-7
If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection. For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— because anyone who has died has been freed from in.
quotes
No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. There is a silly idea that good people don't know what temptation means. – C.S. Lewis
Jesus did not come in the world to make bad men good. Jesus came into the world to make dead men live. – Leonard Ravenhill
scripture
Romans 12:1 & 2
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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There were no bible schools in the New Testament. The only reason why we have bible schools is because we have bankrupt preaching. That’s why. Mister Spurgeon said 100 years ago that the bible suffers more from its exponents than it opponents. A witty American said not long ago, “Sure the bible is infallible. Otherwise how do you think it has survived so much bad preaching?” Oh brothers let’s get back and preach the book. Preach what God says about it, about sin, about redemption, about the Holy Ghost, about His coming, about war and tribulation. Why, this is the most exciting book in the whole world! – Leonard Ravenhill
pictures
dW 05.31.07 spoke of an experience I had in the Middle East a few years ago.
I had many that wanted to see the pictures that I spoke of. Here they are.
