"I should look at problems, difficulties, impossibilities, and then praise God ahead of time for the opportunity of glorifying His name. If Romans 8:28 is still in the Bible, and believable, then praise should characterize my life ( Read more... )

I'm part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I'm a disciple of Jesus Christ. I won't look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. I'm finished and done with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, ( Read more... )

"I will be soldierly at all times. The chief requirement of the soldier is the surrender of his will. Other things are irrelevant. The dispostion of his time, his duties, and his responsibilites is entirely in the hands of his commander, and they are not his business. If Christ has my will He will also have my body, my mind, my strength, my ( Read more... )

We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity ( Read more... )

"A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes dowon in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, ( Read more... )

"There is a plain and evident fact in genuine Christianity that is often overlooked by eager evangelists bent on getting results: that to accept Christ it is necessary that we reject whatever is contrary to Him ( Read more... )

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HOW SWEET

ALL AT ONCE IT WAS FOR ME
to be rid of those fruitless joys
which I had once feared to lose!..
You drove them from me,
you who are the true,
the sovereign joy.

You drove them from me and took their place,
you who are sweeter than all pleasure...

O Lord my God, my Light, my Wealth,
and my Salvation.

Augustine
Confessions, IX, I.

God is my TREASURE, but not as much as I would like....

Listening to sermons by Dr. John Piper at www.desiringGod.org have inspired me for years to "run hard after God"....but...

My heart desires Him more...and more!

I love most of those sermons by Piper, but I only wish he ( Read more... )