Category: Quotes

Quotes

Psalm 31

But I trust in you, LORD; I say, “You are my God.”  My times are in your hands; deliver me from the hands of my

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Quotes

Psalm 1

Sunday begins our summer in the Psalms! Since we start with Psalm 1, the following is from a commentary on how the opening Psalm sets the course

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Surrender

One does not surrender a life in an instant.  That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. -Elisabeth Elliott, Through Gates of

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Books

My Heart In His Hands

The following letter was written to John and Rebecca Hasseltine to ask for their daughter’s hand in marriage: I have now to ask, whether you

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Books

Old Books

I love books.  As a child, my secret goal was to read every book in the youth and children’s section of the local library.  I’m

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Poetry

Gratefulnesse

Following is a favorite poem of thanks we share with you.  Have a blessed Thanksgiving, Jim and Lisa GRATEFULNESSE by George Herbert, (1593-1633), Welsh-born English poet

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Most Serious Work

Prayer is not a little habit pinned on us while we were tied to our mother’s apron strings; neither is it a little decent quarter

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Memorization

Bible memorization is absolutely fundamental to spiritual formation. If I had to choose between all the disciplines of the spiritual life, I would choose Bible

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Bonhoeffer and Diversity

Our guest preacher yesterday, Joel Lawrence, did his PhD on Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was killed by the Nazis in a concentration camp just

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Prayer

Prayer Quote

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the

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The Screwtape Letters

I was reminded at dinner tonight with some friends of this part of The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis.  The Screwtape Letters is the

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Life Together

Armor of God

We must not confide in the armor of God, but in the God of this armor, because all our weapons are only mighty through God.

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