February 23, 2010

Equipped To Love...with true love

"Equipped to Love presents practical insights into the dynamic of what hinders one's freedom to love with God's kind of love - the spirit of idolatry. It also focuses on the Source of one's ability to love - a relationship with the Spirit of God. You'll learn to distinguish between God's kind of love and the world's kind of love." ~Elijah Ministries (7 minutes)

February 22, 2010

"Be still, and know that I am God"
Psalm 46:10

"If our hopes are being disappointed just now, it means that they are being purified.  There is nothing noble the human mind has ever hoped for or dreamed of that will not be fulfilled.  One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.  'Because thou has kept the word of my patience.' (Rev. 3:10)  Remain spiritually tenacious."
~ Oswald Chambers

February 16, 2010

The Promise


 The Promise
 ~  o n   t h e   p a i n   o f   s i n g l e n e s s  ~

February 15, 2010

Die

"Die before you die. There is no chance after." - C. S. Lewis

January 27, 2010

A Sweet and Bitter Providence

"...the worst of times are not wasted.  They are not wasted globally, historically, or personally.  When you think he [God] is farthest from you, or has even turned against you, the truth is that as you cling to him, he is laying foundation stones of greater happiness in your life.

'Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust him for his grace;
Behind a frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face.'" -William Cowper

~  John Piper  (from "A Sweet and Bitter Providence")

January 26, 2010

He Asks All


“What kind of a God is it who asks everything of us?  The same God who ‘did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all; and with this gift how can He fail to lavish upon us all He has to give?’  He gives all.  He asks all.” 

 -Elisabeth Elliot