Archive for the ‘quotes’ Category

What’s the biggest thing you’ve asked God for this week?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Do you know why I often ask Christians, "What's the biggest thing you've asked God for this week?"  I remind them that they are going to God, The Father, the Maker of the Universe, The One who holds the world in His hands. What did you ask God for? Did ...

C.S. Lewis on Heaven

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room ...

22 Years

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah - Psalm 39:4-5 Come now, you ...

Begin By Confessing Your Righteousness

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

I've started going through Paul Tripp's Whiter Than Snow.  It's a book of 52 short meditations on Psalm 51.  Here's a snippet from the first one that I find immensely helpful. Here’s the point. Before you can ever make a clean and unamended confession of your sin, you have to first ...

Prayer & Bible Reading

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

From When I Don't Desire God (page 151), on how to pray over your Bible reading: I—(Incline!) The first thing my soul needs is an inclination toward God and his Word. Without that, nothing else will happen of any value in my life. I must want to know God and read ...

God Threatens Terrible Things, If We Will Not Be Happy

Monday, March 31st, 2008

From here: In the end, there will be only one commandment for God's servants to obey forever and ever: "Be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create" (Isaiah 65:18).  For those who refuse to rejoice in what God creates, Jeremy Taylor, the seventeenth-century Anglican bishop, summed it up: "God ...