September 7
** Douglas Taylor-Weiss, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in Dayton, Ohio, has proposed a new set of Ten Commandments based on his observations of our culture: [From Martin Marty in Context]
"1. Have a good day. 2. Shop. 3. Eliminate pain.
4. Be up-to-date. 5. Relax. 6. Express yourself.
7. Have a happy family. 8. Be entertaining. 9. Be entertained.
10. Buy entertainment. OH--He forgot #11. Get in touch with your feelings.
"Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic." - Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish composer
God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
Thoughts of Godly Wisdom
** Never confuse the will of the majority with the will of God. -- Charles Colson
** The modern myth of power has gravely impoverished our civilization. It has deprived it of all values that lie beyond the search for power. The beautiful, the good, the true cannot be weighed and measured. True knowledge is spiritual knowledge, which is beyond the reach of the world of quantity and therefore is disregarded by our civilization. -- Paul Tournier in The Whole Person in a Broken World
** A Luther Moment: I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
** Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, and that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom, which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets His. - Oswald Chambers
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
......Abraham Lincoln
"All the darkness in the world cannot put out the light of one small candle." -- Anonymous
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -- Anonymous
"We may or may not have been responsible for our addictions, but we are responsible for our recovery." -- Anonymous
"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free." -- Jesus Christ
"Admitting that I have a problem and need help is the beginning point of overcoming any problem." -- DI
** Our society is not a community radiant with the love of Christ, but a dangerous network of domination and manipulation in which we can easily get entangled and lose our soul. The basic question is whether we ministers of Jesus Christ have not already been so deeply molded by the seductive powers of our dark world that we have become blind to our own and other people's fatal state and have lost our power and motivation to swim for our lives. -- Henri J. M. Nouwen** Humility is the key to experiencing God's power. –Jim Cymbala, Brooklyn Tabernacle
** To applaud the will of God, to do the will of God, even to fight for the will of God is not difficult ... until it comes at cross-purposes with our will. Then the lines are drawn. –Richard J. Foster, in Leadership
Keep me, Lord, from ever hardening down into the state of being just another average Christian. A. W. Tozer
Have you ever thought that life is a car wash, and you're on a bike?
** Along with much bad thinking that has come down to us from the last four hundred years, goes split living. ... People who live compartmentalized lives worship God and go to church and do their "religious" bit on Sundays; then they switch that off and pursue their professions, weekday work, weekend hobbies, and all their relationships as though these were matters entirely separate from their Christian commitment. They don't even try to see their lives as a whole in terms of God and his Word. Instead they slip into their religious compartment on Sundays and their secular compartment of the other days of the week and allow no communication between the two. -- J.I. Packer
** Our society wrestles with many passionate social movements, including pleas for tolerance. But the capacity to know the difference between tolerance and intolerance seems in short supply. Most of us cannot think far past our provincial interests and pet theorems. We need intolerance for our troublesome biases and tolerance for whatever is straight, though it may come from our most needling adversaries. We are often dragged, kicking and screaming, into enlightenment by the Spirit who best mends our slothful thinking. It is not intolerant to reject falsehood, neither are we tolerant when we warmly appraise and accept screwy ideas. But in our wise intolerance we must not lose our love; and in our tolerance we must not give away our souls.-- Lloyd H. Ahlem
Why does God bring thunderclouds and disasters when we want green pastures and still waters? Bit by bit we find, behind the clouds, the Father's feet; behind the lightning, an abiding day that has no night; behind the thunder, "a still small voice" that comforts with a comfort that is unspeakable. The whole claim of the redemption of Jesus is that He can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human soul, not only hereafter, but here and now.
--Oswald Chambers
"1. Have a good day. 2. Shop. 3. Eliminate pain.
4. Be up-to-date. 5. Relax. 6. Express yourself.
7. Have a happy family. 8. Be entertaining. 9. Be entertained.
10. Buy entertainment. OH--He forgot #11. Get in touch with your feelings.
"Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic." - Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish composer
God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.
Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
Thoughts of Godly Wisdom
** Never confuse the will of the majority with the will of God. -- Charles Colson
** The modern myth of power has gravely impoverished our civilization. It has deprived it of all values that lie beyond the search for power. The beautiful, the good, the true cannot be weighed and measured. True knowledge is spiritual knowledge, which is beyond the reach of the world of quantity and therefore is disregarded by our civilization. -- Paul Tournier in The Whole Person in a Broken World
** A Luther Moment: I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
** Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, and that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted clean out, there must be no such thing left, only freedom, which is very different. Freedom is the ability not to insist on my rights, but to see that God gets His. - Oswald Chambers
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.
......Abraham Lincoln
"All the darkness in the world cannot put out the light of one small candle." -- Anonymous
"Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is." -- Anonymous
"We may or may not have been responsible for our addictions, but we are responsible for our recovery." -- Anonymous
"You will know the truth and the truth will set you free." -- Jesus Christ
"Admitting that I have a problem and need help is the beginning point of overcoming any problem." -- DI
** Our society is not a community radiant with the love of Christ, but a dangerous network of domination and manipulation in which we can easily get entangled and lose our soul. The basic question is whether we ministers of Jesus Christ have not already been so deeply molded by the seductive powers of our dark world that we have become blind to our own and other people's fatal state and have lost our power and motivation to swim for our lives. -- Henri J. M. Nouwen** Humility is the key to experiencing God's power. –Jim Cymbala, Brooklyn Tabernacle
** To applaud the will of God, to do the will of God, even to fight for the will of God is not difficult ... until it comes at cross-purposes with our will. Then the lines are drawn. –Richard J. Foster, in Leadership
Keep me, Lord, from ever hardening down into the state of being just another average Christian. A. W. Tozer
Have you ever thought that life is a car wash, and you're on a bike?
** Along with much bad thinking that has come down to us from the last four hundred years, goes split living. ... People who live compartmentalized lives worship God and go to church and do their "religious" bit on Sundays; then they switch that off and pursue their professions, weekday work, weekend hobbies, and all their relationships as though these were matters entirely separate from their Christian commitment. They don't even try to see their lives as a whole in terms of God and his Word. Instead they slip into their religious compartment on Sundays and their secular compartment of the other days of the week and allow no communication between the two. -- J.I. Packer
** Our society wrestles with many passionate social movements, including pleas for tolerance. But the capacity to know the difference between tolerance and intolerance seems in short supply. Most of us cannot think far past our provincial interests and pet theorems. We need intolerance for our troublesome biases and tolerance for whatever is straight, though it may come from our most needling adversaries. We are often dragged, kicking and screaming, into enlightenment by the Spirit who best mends our slothful thinking. It is not intolerant to reject falsehood, neither are we tolerant when we warmly appraise and accept screwy ideas. But in our wise intolerance we must not lose our love; and in our tolerance we must not give away our souls.-- Lloyd H. Ahlem
Why does God bring thunderclouds and disasters when we want green pastures and still waters? Bit by bit we find, behind the clouds, the Father's feet; behind the lightning, an abiding day that has no night; behind the thunder, "a still small voice" that comforts with a comfort that is unspeakable. The whole claim of the redemption of Jesus is that He can satisfy the last aching abyss of the human soul, not only hereafter, but here and now.
--Oswald Chambers
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