June 2011
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It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion, of inner dishonesty, or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing, or is it both? Today the reading speaks dreadfully harshly of God’s incorruptible judgement. He certainly sees how much personal feeling, how much anxiety there is in today’s decision, however...
Jun 1st
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May 2011
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It’s Not About You →
It’s Not About You www.nytimes.com America needs to adjust its message to college graduates.
May 31st
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Death is only dreadful for those who live in dread and fear of it. Death is not wild and terrible, if we have not become bitter ourselves. Death is grace, the greatest gift of grace that God gives to people who believe in Him. Death is mild, death is sweet and gentle; it beckons to us with heavenly power, if only we realize that it is the gateway to our homeland, the tabernacle of joy, the...
May 31st
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There is no misery of mind or spirit to compare with estrangement from God through sin and the refusal to confess it in penitence; and there is no joy like fellowship with God through repentance, confession, and forgiveness. - John Stott, Confess Your Sins
May 30th
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“Then there are those who are unable to say [that they are children of God]...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
May 30th
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“I threw myself into the [ministry] in a very unchristian and rather arrogant...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letter to Elizabeth Zinn
May 29th
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“May God grant us honesty as we face this terrifying truth, this truth we shall...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies on the Sermon on the Mount 
May 29th
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“What’s bothered me most about the fundamentalists is that they seem...”
– Bono, Bono: In Conversation
May 29th
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“Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years
May 28th
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“If you only watch to see whether a man is going to say things that are...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies on the Sermon on the Mount
May 28th
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“Lay aside your sackcloth and ashes, and rise to the dignity of your true...”
– C.H. Spurgeon
May 27th
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“We cannot deny of others what we demand for ourselves.”
– Bono
May 27th
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“The Church of God for many a day has been trying to mix certain incompatibles....”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies on the Sermon on the Mount
May 26th
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“Anytime a community hinders us from coming before Christ as a single individual,...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Discipleship
May 26th
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“We are to adopt towards no one in the church, nor require anyone to adopt...”
– John Stott, Confess Your Sins 
May 25th
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“Ecce homo! —Behold the man! In [Christ] the world was reconciled to God....”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ethics
May 25th
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“What you see in your spiritual life today is the direct result of what...”
– Joshua Harris, Not Even a Hint
May 24th
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May 24th
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“The greatest single secret of spiritual development lies in personal, humble,...”
– John Stott, Confess Your Sins
May 24th
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“We can put off our mask before one who is pledged to secrecy, and put it on...”
– Jack Winslow
May 24th
“The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity
May 23rd
“The Christian is essentially a unique and special kind of person. This is...”
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies on the Sermon on the Mount
May 23rd
“I think we need a good deal of correction on this point, indeed, I must admit...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison
May 22nd
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“There was a day when I died, utterly died, to George Mueller and his opinions,...”
– George Mueller
May 22nd
“We all know that Christ has, in effect, been eliminated from our lives. Of...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity
May 21st
“When we go before God in prayer with a cold, dull heart, and in a lifeless and...”
– Jonathan Edwards, Christ’s Agony
May 21st
“Tuesday, August 17, 1742. Exceedingly depressed in spirit; it cuts and wounds my...”
– David Brainerd, The Life and Diary for David Brainerd.
May 20th
What Jesus Left Behind →
So scant a corporeal trace did Jesus leave that some have claimed he was a myth. The only things he left behind were people who believed his gospel. Jesus left his Word (teaching) and his church (a few hundred people).
May 20th
“The older the world grows, the more heated becomes the conflict between Christ...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
May 20th
“To ‘sow to the flesh’ is to pander to it, to cosset, cuddle and...”
– John Stott, The Message of Galatians
May 19th
In the bleak light of the Depression: Rare colour... →
May 19th
“Q: Did you ever have an imaginary friend? A: Yes. Sometimes I am two people....”
– Entry in Tara Cash’s personal book Dad, Share Your Life with Me from The Man Called Cash
May 19th
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Mark this also, if God send thee to the sea, and promise to go with thee, and to bring thee safe to land, he will raise up a tempest against thee, to prove whether thou wilt abide by his word, and that thou mayest feel thy faith, and perceive his goodness. For if it were always fair weather, and thou never brought into such jeopardy, whence his mercy only delivered thee, thy faith should be but...
May 18th
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“Like infants, when they are born into the world, God’s children are not...”
– J. C. Ryle, Christian Leaders of the 18th Century
May 18th
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May 18th
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“Christianity preaches the unending worth of the apparently worthless and the...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jesus Christ and the Essence of Christianity
May 17th
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May 17th
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“Let me know you, for you are the God who knows me; let me recognize you as you...”
– St. Augustine, Confessions
May 17th
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“I would have you sit down and count the cost; and if you cannot find it in your...”
– Jonathan Edwards
May 16th
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“Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ....”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship
May 16th
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“The cross of Christ is the supreme illustration, and the argument of the New...”
–  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Cross
May 15th
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“We become Christians through faith and repentance, and we grow as Christians...”
– Tim Chester, You Can Change
May 15th
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“You never depart from us, yet it is hard for us to return to you.”
– St. Augustine, Confessions
May 15th
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“Quality is the greatest enemy of any kind of mass-leveling…Quantities are...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years  BLOG
May 15th
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“The serious Christian, set down for the first time in a Christian community, is...”
–  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together
May 14th
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“I walked in the sunshine with a scholar who had effectively forfeited his...”
– J. I. Packer, Knowing God (via scho) In the next paragraph… “Constantly we find ourselves slipping into bitterness and apathy and gloom as we reflect on [our crosses] which we frequently do. The attitude we show to the world is a sort of dried up stoicism, miles removed from the...
May 14th
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“It is recognized in Christian theology—and indeed on a lower plane it is...”
– T.S. Eliot, The ‘Pensées’ of Pascal
May 14th
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“Do I want to be strong like Christ, so I will be admired as strong, or so that I...”
– John Piper
May 13th
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God created the world in an instant, and it was a...
Timothy Keller, King’s Cross
May 13th
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“I used to talk glibly as thought I knew the meaning of it all, but unless I had...”
– St. Augustine
May 12th