Month: August 2014

A deep and sober daily concern to please God is the rarest of rarities.
Vance Havner

And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 5:2
The English Standard Version

Kind words are the music of the world.
Frederick W. Faber

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness of duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low shadows of the reality.
Jonathan Edwards

For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shown toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Hebrews 6:10
The King James Version

It is one thing for sin to live in us; it is another for us to live in sin.
John Murray

“I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
2 Corninthians 6:18
The New International Version

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
Henri Nouwen

Special Reminder…If you missed Eric’s very special sermon of this last Sunday, “Lana’s Hope Is My Hope,” we have provided the link below so that you might still enjoy.
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
Frederick Buechner

“Judge not, that you be not judged.  For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Matthew 7:1-2
The New King James Version

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
A. W. Tozer

Dear friends, don’t be bewildered or surprised when you go through the fiery trials ahead, for this is no strange, unusual thing that is going to happen to you.  Instead, be really glad—because these trials will make you partners with Christ in his suffering, and afterwards you will have the wonderful joy of sharing his glory in that coming day when it will be displayed.
1 Peter 4:12-13
The Living Bible

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
Mother Teresa

Do not lose your inward peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.  Commend all to God, and then lie still and be at rest in His bosom.  Whatever happens, abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God, trusting to His eternal love for you.
Francis de Sales

But who may abide the day of his coming?  and who shall stand when he appeareth?  for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap.
Malachi 3:2
The King James Version

Why wait until the fourth Thursday in November?  Why wait until the morning of December twenty-fifth?  Thanksgiving to God should be an everyday affair.  The time to be thankful is now!
Jim Gallery

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If you need a boost in your faith, we hope you’ll join us for our 2nd Annual Ranch Retreat here in the heart of the Great Midwest on Columbus Day weekend, October 10-12.  We’ll have great food, great worship, great messages and great fellowship.  Why not get away and see what God has to say?  Click here to learn more or to register.

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A priest ought to be in no place where his Master would not go, nor employed in anything which his Master would not do.
Henry Edward Manning

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard aan the glutton will come in poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.
Proverbs 23:20-21
The English Standard Version

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If you need a boost in your faith, we hope you’ll join us for our 2nd Annual Ranch Retreat here in the heart of the Great Midwest on Columbus Day weekend, October 10-12.  We’ll have great food, great worship, great messages and great fellowship.  Why not get away and see what God has to say?  Click here to learn more or to register.

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God sent me 1,000 hints that he didn’t want me to keep doing what I was doing.  But I didn’t listen, so he set off a nuclear bomb.
Jack Abramoff

Christ suffered for our sins once for all time.  He never sinned, but he died for sinners to bring you safely home to God.  He suffered physical death, but he was raised to life in the Spirit.
1 Peter 3:18
The New Living Translation

We put ourselves there.  The door to hell is locked from the inside.
James A. Pike

I believe praise is a powerful weapon against the enemy.  Breakthroughs happen as we praise God.  He can work a miracle in whatever situation we face regarding our health, finances, family, or career.
Arah Wehrli

A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
James 1:8
The King James Version

People who make decisions based merely on what seems most advisable to them will inevitably choose something inferior to God’s best.  Jesus, the ultimate model for the Christian life, did not rely on His own best thinking, but depended completely on His heavenly Father for wisdom in everything.
Henry Blackaby

LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:
Psalm 10:17
The King James Version

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov