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God is bigger than all of us, beyond all of us. When I pray, I don’t really pray for anything, I just try to understand God’s will and do the best I can.
Harry Connick, Jr.
The heavens are the LORD’S heavens, but the earth he has given to the children of man.
Psalm 115:16
The English Standard Version
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell
“No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Matthew 6:24
The New Living Translation
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Henry Ward Beecher
Note from Eric: I was happy to be able to give Dan and Emily Okall a check this weekend for $3,318.39 for their work of breast cancer education and care in Kenya, thanks to many of you who made a donation in honor of my wife, Lana. I would love to triple this amount for them by September 25th when they will be moving to Kenya to continue their work there full-time. If you would still like to donate, please visit www.LanasHope.com. We’ll be glad to send you a “Lana’s Hope is My Hope” reminder band, anywhere in the world, as our way of saying thanks for joining your heart with ours for this project. Thank you!
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surroundings and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Witall Smith
Mercy and truth have met together; Righteousness and peace have kissed.
Psalm 85:10
The New King James Version
Tears are part of existence on this earth. They have flowed from Eden right down through history to the present day.
Wayne Detzler
A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly.
Proverbs 14:29
The New International Version
If ever you are tempted to say, “I wish someone were to die and leave me something in his will,” allow me to tell you, “Someone has!”
David Shepherd
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.
http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=EMO_6&m=3Zq3incM1ZDt3Xt&b=q8cOawEt_UKDaOcWnOVaPA
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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