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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Where are...
"Where are the adventures, the explorers, the buccaneers for God who count one human soul of far greater value than the rise or fall of an empire?...Where are God's men in this day of God's power?" --Howard Guinness in Sacrifice
Where are...
...those willing to explore faith to discover life?
...those willing to explore truth to discover direction?
...those willing to explore friendship to discover traction?
...those willing to explore service to discover impact?
...those willing to explore potential to discover satisfaction?
To be an adventurer, explorer, or buccaneer will be costly and risky. Are you willing to pay the price and take the risk?
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Faith in Future Grace Vs. Impatience
Recommended Reading: Future Grace by John Piper. It has 31 chapters, one for each day of the month. Here are some quotes from chapter 13:
"Impatience is a form of unbelief. It's what we begin to feel when we start to doubt the wisdom of God's timing or the goodness of God's guidance." (167)
"The opposite of impatience is not a glib denial of loss. It's a deepening, ripening, peaceful willingness to wait for God in the unplanned place of obedience, and to walk with God at the unplanned pace of obedience--to wait in his place, and go at his pace." (167)
"Patience is the capacity to "wait and to endure" without murmuring and disillusionment--to wait in the unplanned place, and endure the unplanned pace." (168)
"The key to patience is faith in the future grace of God's "glorious might" to transform all our interruptions into rewards.
In other words, the strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours. This requires great faith in future grace, because evidence is seldom evident." (170)
On the heals of a stroke, cancer, a crown, and a kidney stone...I found the above quotes of great comfort.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
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