Category: Practical Matters

“We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.” — George A. Buttrick  Psalm 146:5 NIV Blessed are those whose help is…

“God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is not all He sees. He also sees who we are intended to be, who we will one day become.” — John Ortberg 1 John 3:2NKJV Beloved, now we are children…

“When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility.” — Armin Gesswein  Luke 1:37 NKJV “For with God nothing will be impossible.”  We’ve read this. We’ve heard this. And yes, probably even said this ourselves. But…do we…

” I’ve had too many victories to let defeat have the last word.” – The Williams Brothers 1 Corinthians 15:55-58 NASB 55 O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; 57 but thanks be to God, who gives us…

“Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.” — Lloyd John Ogilvie  Luke 8:24-25NLT 24 The disciples woke him up, shouting, “Master, Master, we’re going to drown!” So Jesus rebuked…

“God wants our attention more than any gifts or works.” – Charles Stanley, In Touch Ministries  Deuteronomy 7:12 NIV 12 If you pay attention to these laws and are careful to follow them, then the LORD your God will keep his covenant of love with you, as he swore to your ancestors.  He also prefers…

“One is a Christian 7/24/365 or he is but a tinkling cymbal.” — Richard H. Jett  Revelations 3:14-22 NLT 15 “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! 16 But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold,…

Charles Spurgeon: ”  I see, in one place, God in providence presiding over all, and yet I see, and cannot help seeing, that man acts as he pleases, and that God has left his actions, in a great measure, to his own free-will. There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against…

“We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.” — A. W. Tozer  Hebrews 4:12-13 NKJV For the…

“Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.” — Theodore Epp 2 Timothy 1:9-10 NLT  9 For God saved us and called us to live a holy life. He did this, not because we deserved it, but because that was his plan from before the beginning of time—to…