For those of you who haven't picked up on it just yet, the reason I don't post much on here is because I do almost all of my posting here:

www.wieldingthesword.blogspot.com ;) have fun.

I believe Martyn Lloyd-Jones said it perfectly:

"...the greatest need of the hour is a revived and joyful Church... Nothing is more important... than that we should be delivered from a condition which gives other people looking at us, the impression that to be a Christian means to be unhappy, to be sad, to be morbid, and that the Christian is one ( Read more... )

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I've been thinking about this more and more...there is a magnificent paradox when we walk in brokenness before the Lord.

On one hand, we are so sick of ourselves, so full of sorrow over our sinful nature and our inability to live righteously that we cannot even bear to live with ourselves.

We are as Isaiah, crying out, "Woe is me, for I am undone ( Read more... )