Categories: quotation

• review: captured by grace

  Encountering God’s grace changes lives forever, and this beautiful three-part volume is truly a keeper as it consistently initiates a fresh experience of God’s grace on almost every page. It tracks the dramatic stories of John Newton, Paul and the author himself in the freeing power of permanent forgiveness and unending mercy. Captured by Grace drives home that none of us, no matter what we have done, are beyond the reach of grace and forgiveness. Dr. David Jeremiah’s writing challenges [...]

• truly this…… I want!

  “I want to be touched by affectionate eyes I want to be welcomed when welcome is rare I want to be held when my confidence sighs I want to find comfort in genuine care. I want to be given untakebale things I want to be trusted with hearts that might break I want to fly dreaming on effortless wings I want to be smiled on when I’m awake. I want to see sunsets with people who know I want to [...]

• bad harmony

  Did you hear that three-piece squawk painfully on weekend TV? Did you see the shame and courage, the attempts and the misery that the early episodes of the X-factor (inevitably) induce? They are incredible (mad-bad-incredible!) examples of what happens when you surround yourself with people who are not wiling to speak truth. Do you reckon each one of these people sat with friends and family and belted out those songs: that  someone actually heard them and then said, “That’s so [...]

• essential Piper: 2of6 hedonism

  In this little mini-series from one of my helpers in the faith, the inimitable John Piper. This entry looks at Christian Hedonism, which at it’s core, is the truth that God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him. An immense and punchy truth!! ” We praise what we enjoy because the delight is incomplete until it is expressed in praise. If we were not allowed to speak of what we value and celebrate what we [...]

• quoteable quote:- our part….

  “All we can do is try to keep our hands cupped and open and ask God to teach us how to keep our hands cupped and open.” Richard Rohr

• essential Piper: 1of6 purpose

  ,….and nothing of the Pied-piper sort! “Don’t waste your life!” is pure-spiritual-adrenalin and a call-to obedience by one of my favourite authors, John Piper. Definitely a Top-Fifty book of all time for me…. Despite Julie not being a big fan, I’m going to aim for a six-entry-weekly-taster from Piper’s best books and key thinking. ” It is possible to waste your life. Few things make me tremble more than the possibility of taking this onetime gift of life and wasting [...]

• blessed hurricane

  I attended “Together on a Mission” conference, a few years ago and have always appreciated some of the podcasts coming out from this New Frontiers conference. Yet this year the most moving and challenging preach of all was brought by someone who wasn’t even there. PJ Smyth leads GodFirst Church in Johannesburg, South Africa, a 5-year old church plant.  He was scheduled to speak this year in Brighton but withdrew hours before travelling, due to a cancer scare. Technically, therefore, [...]

• quoteable quote: perspective

  “If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important.  People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.” – William Law, 18th-century British theologian

• quoteable quote: God’s presence

  “I want the presence of God Himself, or I don’t want anything at all to do with religion…I want all that God has or I don’t want any.” A W Tozer