We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
from the Adalians.com
Quotes
Sophisticated Pulpit Theatrics
No amount of sophisticated pulpit theatrics can come close to the simple power of a Christ-centered sermon. You can do a perfect talk show in the pulpit, show visually compelling presentations and have a catchy script for the whole act. But when Christ is absent from your sermon, when the gospel is diluted in the name of sophistication and relevance and when the blood of Jesus is omitted from your talk, you are just wasting everyone else’s time. For if it’s not Chirst that you are proclaiming, what in the world are you doing in God’s pulpit?
The Daily Grind
The secret of our success is determined by our daily agendas. We cannot escape the weight of our habits and patterns of behavior. The only hope for changing our lives is to change something we do daily.
Discipleship Meetings
Strengthen them. Don’t beat them to death with condemnation and accusing words. Remind yourself that discipleship meetings are supposed to give life, not inflict death. Communicate love and grace and life and freedom and faith and kindness and mercy. Tell them of Christ’s love, not the raging fires of burning sulfur in hell. When the good Samaritan found the traveler that was beaten to death on the side of the road (Luke 10), he didn’t tell him how stupid he was for going that way and for traveling alone. He bandaged his wound and poured oil and wine on it. That is a picture of tenderness and Christ-like love. The good Samaritan didn’t accuse. He treated the victim tenderly. Let’s do that to our victory group buddies.
Why We Protest
Paul David Tripp: You know why you like to protest? Because whenever you protest, you’re saying you’re not the problem!
Some of us will run to our Facebook and Twitter accounts to rip on the deviation of the week, while others will spout off disapproval to our closest friends over a latte. It’s not that this is wrong in and of itself. In fact, protesting is a necessary part of the Christian life. But it can be a smokescreen we use to keep us from seeing the sin that is setting up camp in our hearts.
Sigmund Freud
If there had been no railway to conquer distance, my child would never have left town and I should need no telephone to hear his voice.
Sigmund Freud
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