[Quote] Fear God
The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.Oswald Chambers
[Quote] Broken Heart
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.Oswald Chambers
[Quote] Jesus and Creation Care
We cannot claim to love God while abusing what belongs to Christ by right of creation, redemption and inheritance. We care for the earth and responsibly use its abundant resources, not according to the rationale of the secular world, but for the Lord’s sake. If Jesus is Lord of all the earth, we cannot separate […]
How true!
Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car. – Garrison Keillor
Silence
Heard a good quote yesterday during a sermon… In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends – Martin Luther King Jr
Being a Christian….
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God’s will. ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer I am reading Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. It is a book based on Dietrich’s life and the political situation in Europe with the rise of Nazi. It is a very capturing book. I picked […]
Into the Unknown
Received an encouragement from a friend a few days ago… And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.” And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall […]
Our sin must be extremely horrible….
Our sin must be extremely horrible. Nothing reveals the gravity of sin like the cross. For ultimately what sent Christ there was neither the greed of Judas, nor the envy of the priests, not the vacillating cowardice of Pilate, but our own greed, envy, cowardice, and other sins, and Christ’s resolve in love and mercy […]
Not an option
“The Great Commission is not an option to be considered; it is a command to be obeyed.” — Hudson Taylor
Commitment and the Kingdom of God
We never enter into the Kingdom of God by having our head questions answered, but only by commitment. – Oswald Chambers