Persecution: As common as the sun rising in the East
I sent this email to my fellowship today… I subscribed to Voice of the Martyrs newsletter..and there was one article caught my attention… The article is called Persecution: Normal and Expected (http://www.lausanneworldpulse.com/themedarticles.php/1045). It talks about a Biblical view of persecution and how sometimes the Western Church miss the mark. What sadden me is in the […]
Let us not our souls to one another
Yesterday during worship, we sing Give Us Clean Hands by Chris Tomlin. Here is part of the lyric: We bow our hearts We bend our knees Oh Spirit come make us humble We turn our eyes From evil things Oh Lord we cast down our idols Oh give us clean hands and give us pure […]
Quote: Loving God
Picked this up from Challies.com. The quotes is from Jonathan Edward‘s The Religious Affection: The more a true saint loves God with a gracious love, the more he desires to love him, and the more uneasy is he at his want of love to him; the more he hates sin, the more he desires to […]
What mature Christian do…
From Tim Keller‘s Counterfeit gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope That Matters Speaking about the characteristics of a mature Christian: Our hearts are like that. We think we’ve learned about grace, set our idols aside, and reached a place where we’re serving God not for what we’re going […]
Abraham, Issac and Jesus
Why had Isaac not been sacrificed? The sins of Abraham and his family were still there. How could a holy and just God overlook them? Well, a substitute was offered, a ram. But was it the ram’s blood that took away the debt of the firstborn? No. Many years later, in those mountains, another firstborn […]
Discover
I’ve been cleaning my room since our house is getting renovated. I was digging through some of the old stuff and found this poem. I purchased this poem from a friend in Feb 2009. He was hanging out in the cold street of Toronto when I met him. He took pictures with his digital camera, […]
Harshness and encouraging
At my fellowship, we are looking to create a mission statement. A one liner as to the purpose of the fellowship. I was digging around in Gmail last night. I found a mission statement I propose back in the days when I was leading: Emmanuel is a Christian Fellowship that provides the spiritual growth to […]