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At key times in the history of the Church, men and women have been raised up to fan into flame the the embers of Christian believers, and often with seismic results. God is watching carefully, and preparing. Keep your eyes open, and keep praying.
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Why Can't I Pray?
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The bible gives us several reasons, but according to Jeremy Taylor, a deceitful heart is at the root of prayerlessness.
It's Not Rocket Science
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To keep in step with the Spirit should be our daily quest. And if we are successful at that, all of life falls into place.
Theological Steak
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These words by P. T. Forsythe on the magnificence of Christ's work are to theology what Ruth's Chris is to a good steak.
Describing the Indescribable
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What we have in Christ will take all eternity to describe. But for one segment of one sermon, a great preacher made a mighty attempt.
Making Sense Of It All
January 30, 2012
Where are things headed? Is there rhyme and reason to the endless cycle of summer, fall, winter and spring? Is there a plan in place, or is randomness the explanation?
So Where's The Next John The Baptist?
February 15, 2009
Then the word of the Lord came to Samuel: "I am grieved that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions." Samuel was troubled, and he cried out to the Lord all that night. 1 Samuel 15:10-11
All night long? That's a long time, and a whole lot of agony. What did Saul pray? Was he despairing, angry, disappointed, threatened, hopeful? Did he take Saul's failure as king personally?
At any rate, the next morning, all blurry-eyed, Samuel and Saul "had it out." Saul was clueless as ever. "But I did obey," he whined.
"Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice," Samuel declared.
That ended the argument. But Saul was finished. His short-lived rule had peaked, and now would be torn from him. He begged to no avail. The scene is pathetic. Too late. What's done is done.
Ah, but here comes chapter 16. God sets Samuel in motion, on a mission to anoint the next king, the king through whose line the Promised One would be born.
You know the story. Jesse's sons get paraded in front of Samuel. None of them are it. Finally David, the sheepboy is sent for, and stands before Samuel.
Then the Lord said, "Rise and aniont him; he is the one." 1 Samuel 16:12
Whenever lamps burn low in the Church, and love waxes cold, and watchers slumber while the Bridegroom tarries, the Restorer and Sustainer of His people is always standing at the door.
He can create fresh witnesses to Himself in the most unlikely quarters, even even as He raised up Paul from among the Pharisees, and Luther from among the Mendicants. The Gospel of the grace of God has been disproved a great number of times - it has been assailed and wounded and beaten down and left for dead - but it survives by the power of an endless life.
Amid fightings within and fears without the modern Church can still say, "I know that my Redeemer lives." Who can guess what swift, incalculable revival Christ has in store for His desponding people?
JOHN HUTTON
in the British Weekly, January 7, 1926
(Quoted from THE FIRST FOURTY YEARS by Ian Murray on the life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones p 152)
All night long? That's a long time, and a whole lot of agony. What did Saul pray? Was he despairing, angry, disappointed, threatened, hopeful? Did he take Saul's failure as king personally?
At any rate, the next morning, all blurry-eyed, Samuel and Saul "had it out." Saul was clueless as ever. "But I did obey," he whined.
"Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord? To obey is better than sacrifice," Samuel declared.
That ended the argument. But Saul was finished. His short-lived rule had peaked, and now would be torn from him. He begged to no avail. The scene is pathetic. Too late. What's done is done.
Ah, but here comes chapter 16. God sets Samuel in motion, on a mission to anoint the next king, the king through whose line the Promised One would be born.
You know the story. Jesse's sons get paraded in front of Samuel. None of them are it. Finally David, the sheepboy is sent for, and stands before Samuel.
Then the Lord said, "Rise and aniont him; he is the one." 1 Samuel 16:12
Whenever lamps burn low in the Church, and love waxes cold, and watchers slumber while the Bridegroom tarries, the Restorer and Sustainer of His people is always standing at the door.
He can create fresh witnesses to Himself in the most unlikely quarters, even even as He raised up Paul from among the Pharisees, and Luther from among the Mendicants. The Gospel of the grace of God has been disproved a great number of times - it has been assailed and wounded and beaten down and left for dead - but it survives by the power of an endless life.
Amid fightings within and fears without the modern Church can still say, "I know that my Redeemer lives." Who can guess what swift, incalculable revival Christ has in store for His desponding people?
JOHN HUTTON
in the British Weekly, January 7, 1926
(Quoted from THE FIRST FOURTY YEARS by Ian Murray on the life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones p 152)
