Archive for December, 2005
Saturday, December 17th, 2005
I want do deliberately encourage a mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly for or all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present of [...]
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
…the cure of souls is a cultivated awareness that God has already seized the initiative. The traditional doctrine defining this truth is prevenience: God everywhere and always seizing the initiative. He gets things going. He had and continues to have the first word. Prevenience is the conviction that God has been working diligently, redemptively, and [...]
Monday, December 5th, 2005
Here must be the heir, if yonder his inheritance; here the laborer, if yonder his rest; here the candidate, if yonder his reward.
~Richard Winter Hamilton (1794-1848)
The challenge of being a community apart from the world is to begin to consider things from a transcendent perspective. How easy it is to be swept along with the [...]
Saturday, December 3rd, 2005
The wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and with the wrong enemy.
~General Omar Bradley, 1893-1981
Friday, December 2nd, 2005
Did you know that we sent marines into Vera Cruz, Mexico one time? Oh, we was in Nicaragua, Haiti, San Domingo, China, Mexico. Anywhere in the world we could find a place where we had no business, why, there we were. It was just during our adolescent period in our life as a nation, when [...]
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