Charles H. Spurgeon
Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.
Charles H. Spurgeon
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Phillips Brooks
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
Phillips Brooks
N.T. Wright
We are not to be like horses and mules, without understanding, needing to be prodded and yanked by bits and bridles (Psalm 32:9). From now on, the summons to repentance, and the announcement of God’s kingdom on earth as in heaven, come not through wars, earthquakes, famines or plagues... They come through Jesus.
N.T. Wright
Grégoire Palamas
We start... imitation of Christ with Holy Baptism, which symbolizes the Lord's Burial and Resurrection. Virtuous living and conduct in accord with the Gospel are its intermediate stage, and its perfection is victory through spiritual struggles against the passions, which procures painless, indestructible, heavenly life.
Gregory Palamas
Sinclair Ferguson, Grow in Grace, 1989, p. 62.
We must never forget – if we are to grow in grace, and therefore grow like Christ – that the One we trust, love, and serve is a crucified Savior. To follow Him means taking up the cross, as well as denying ourselves. It means a crucified life.
Sinclair Ferguson, Grow in Grace,1989, p. 62.
Horatius Bonar, Follow the Lamb, 1861.
Not that you are to read no book but the Bible. All that is true and good is worth the reading, if you have time for it. All, if properly used, will help you in your study of the Scriptures. A Christian does not shut his eyes to the natural scenes of beauty spread around him. He does not cease to admire the hills, or plains, or rivers, or forests of earth because he has learned to love the God that made them; nor does he turn away from books of science or true poetry because he has discovered one book truer, more precious, and more poetical than all the rest together.
Horatius Bonar, Follow the Lamb, 1861.
En revanche, si nous nous demandons avec angoisse si nous avons reçu un appel spécial, nous perdons un temps et une énergie précieux et, de fait, nous limitons l'action de Dieu dans nos vies. Lorsque les gens me demandent s'ils doivent se lancer dans un ministère à plein temps au sens traditionnel du terme, je les décourage presque toujours. Je leur dis de se consacrer à Jésus de toute leur vie et de ne chercher à exercer un ministère à plein temps qu'en dernier recours.
Comment nous préparer à répondre à cet appel ? Une partie de la préparation est le fait de Dieu, et une partie doit être le nôtre. La préparation de Dieu à notre égard a commencé bien avant que nous décidions d'accepter son appel. En fait, Dieu a utilisé tous les événements et toutes les expériences de notre vie pour nous préparer au type de service auquel il nous appelle maintenant. Que notre passé ait été heureux ou triste, pieux ou sordide, Dieu s'appuie sur cette expérience pour faire de nous des serviteurs efficaces pour Lui.
Il se peut que toute une vie de préparation soit nécessaire pour une minute de service suprême. Dans le cas de Jean le Baptiste, Dieu a utilisé toute sa vie pour le préparer au moment où il a vu la silhouette solitaire de Jésus s'approcher dans le désert. Il a cessé de baptiser et d'enseigner, a pointé son doigt et a dit : "Regarde, l'Agneau de Dieu, qui enlève le péché du monde !" (Jean 1:29 NIV). Quel moment électrisant dans l'histoire, la première fois que Jésus a été présenté au monde comme l'Agneau de Dieu.
Frère André
The real calling of God is not to a certain place or career, but to everyday obedience. Then, as we follow His everyday call, He opens doors to where He wants us to go and closes doors to where He does not want us to go. That way, faithfulness to God’s calling is within our reach every day.
On the other hand, if we agonize over whether we have received a special call, we waste valuable time and energy and, in effect, limit the work of God in our lives. When people ask me whether they should go into full-time ministry in the traditional sense, I almost always discourage them. I tell them to fol« low Jesus with their whole lives and pursue full-time ministry only as a last resort.
How do we prepare to respond to that call? Part of the preparation is God’s doing, and part of it must be ours. God’s preparation of us began long before we decided to accept His call. The fact is, God has been using all of the events and experiences of our lives to prepare us for the kind of service He’s calling us to now. Whether our past was happy or sad, godly or sordid, God is building on that experience to make us into effective servants for Him.
It may take an entire lifetime of preparation for one minute of supreme service. In the case of John the Baptist, God used his whole life to prepare him for the moment when he saw the lone figure of Jesus approaching in the desert. He stopped baptizing and teaching, pointed his finger, and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29 NIV). What an electrifying moment in history, the first time Jesus was introduced to the world as the Lamb of God.
Brother Andrew
Inconnu
Doubt springs from the mind. Faith is the daughter of the soul.
Unknown
D.A. Carson, Matthew, The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Zondervan, 1984, p. 99.
[Repentance] is not a merely intellectual change of mind or mere grief, still less doing penance, but a radical transformation of the entire person, a fundamental turnaround involving mind and action and including overtones of grief, which result in (spiritual) fruit.
D.A. Carson, Matthew, The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Zondervan, 1984, p. 99.
Phillips Brooks
The great danger facing all of us…is not that we shall make an absolute failure of life, nor that we shall fall into outright viciousness, nor that we shall be terribly unhappy, nor that we shall feel [that] life has no meaning at all – not these things. The danger is that we may fail to perceive life’s greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to tender the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God – and be content to have it so – that is the danger. That someday we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with husks and trappings of life and have really missed life itself. For life without God, to one who has known the richness and joy of life with Him, is unthinkable, impossible. That is what one prays one’s friends may be spared – satisfaction with a life that falls short of the best, that has in it no tingle or thrill that comes from a friendship with the Father.
Phillips Brooks
Mary Kassian
It is astounding that God wants us to call Him “Father.” The implications are staggering. Having God as our Father means that He is a living, personal being, and not an impersonal force. It means we can get to know Him. It means we can talk to Him and interact with Him. It means we can relate to Him on a personal and even an intimate basis. I might not know how to relate to an Almighty One, a Most High, or the Great I Am, because I have not met anybody like that. I have no earthly frame of reference to do so. But relating to a father? That’s different.
Mary Kassian
John Angell James
God does not afflict His children willingly. He takes no delight in seeing our tears – or hearing our groans. But He does take delight in doing us good, making us holy, conforming us to His own image, and fitting us to dwell in His own presence.
John Angell James
Randy Smith
Consider God’s faithfulness to His promises: We learn that all things do work together for good (Rom. 8:28). We learn that God will never leave us nor forsake us (Heb. 13:5). We learn that nothing will separate us from the love of Christ (Rom. 8:35). We learn to walk by faith and not by sight (2 Cor. 5:7). We learn to trust in God’s character and not our circumstances. We learn no detail of our life is outside His loving purpose and sovereign control. We learn His solution far surpasses our most creative imagination. We learn God is often closest when we least feel His presence. We learn Hebrews 10:23 which calls us to “hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
Randy Smith
R.C. Sproul
Every sin, no matter how seemingly insignificant, is an act of rebellion against the sovereign God who reigns and rules over us and as such is an act of treason against the cosmic King.
R.C. Sproul
Tom Wells, Christian : Take Heart !, 1987, p. 27.
The mere inclination to call God “Father”, apart from a sense of my own deep sinfulness, is not the work of the Spirit of God. Note this carefully. It is extremely important. Nothing is easier than to teach men to address God as “Father”. But the Spirit’s work is different in this way: the Spirit teaches men to call God “Father”, who would otherwise fear to do so because of what they know of their own sin.
Tom Wells, Christian: Take Heart!, 1987, p. 27.
A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God.
There are seasons in the lives of all when it is not easy, no not even for Christians, to believe that God is faithful. Our faith is sorely tried, our eyes bedimmed with tears, and we can no longer trace the outworkings of His love. Our ears are distracted with the noises of the world, harassed by the atheistic whisperings of Satan, and we can no longer hear the sweet accents of His still small voice. Cherished plans have been thwarted, friends on whom we relied have failed us, a profest brother or sister in Christ has betrayed us. We are staggered. We sought to be faithful to God, and now a dark cloud hides Him from us. We find it difficult, yea, impossible, for carnal reason to harmonize His frowning providence with His gracious promises.
A.W. Pink, The Attributes of God.
Augustin
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
Augustine