"Nobody has ever done something great for God that didn't have a great thorn from God. ...[W]hen God wants to use someone greatly, He wounds them deeply. ...Not abusive wounds. The testing of life, that puts us into that position of experiencing the power of God. And you can't find a hero in these pages [the Bible] that didn't go through the thorny bush of trial and tribulation. ...'When I am weak, then I am strong.' ...This is Jesus, doing something in me that I cannot do on my own." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -- Louie Giglio, "Addiction Must Fall" (final message in the "Goliath Must Fall" series) |
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I to the hills will lift mine eyes
from whence doth come mine aid. My safety cometh from the Lord, who heav'n and earth hath made. Thy foot He'll not let slide, nor will He slumber that thee keeps. Behold, He that keeps Israel, He slumbers not, nor sleeps. The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy shade on thy right hand doth stay: The moon by night thee shall not smite, nor yet the sun by day. The Lord shall keep thy soul; He shall preserve thee from all ill Henceforth thy going out and in God keep for ever will. Psalm 121, from the Scottish Psalter Sung here by an untrained, unnamed Scottish congregation (guests at the wedding of Jonathan and Mairi Keddie, including one very wee one) _____________________________________ Audio file courtesy of Psalm Singing Online Lyrics found on page 10 of Oswald Chambers: Abandoned to God by David McCasland (This hymn was sung at Oswald Chambers' funeral in Cairo on November 16, 1917.) "The Sermon on the Mount is a statement of the life we will live
when the Holy Spirit is having His way with us." Oswald Chambers, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount "Some people, when they use the word 'salvation,' understand nothing more by it than deliverance from hell and admittance into heaven. Now, that is not salvation: those two things are the effects of salvation. ...Salvation begins with us as wandering sheep, it follows us through all our confused wanderings; it puts us on the shoulders of the shepherd; it carries us into the fold; it calls together the friends and the neighbours; it rejoices over us; it preserves us in that fold through life; and then at last it brings us to the green pastures of heaven, beside the still waters of bliss, where we lie down for ever, in the presence of the Chief Shepherd, never more to be disturbed."
C.H. Spurgeon, "The Way of Salvation" "Spurgeon at the New Park Street Chapel: 365 Sermons" August 15 devotional, Bible Gateway Two more links to flag to your attention:
Bible Gateway has added two new C.H. Spurgeon daily devotionals. You can subscribe to them on the Bible Gateway site, or you can access them at the links below. I've also added this information to the "Links" page, under "Blogs, devotionals, sites, and articles." Spurgeon at the New Park Street Chapel: 365 Sermons Spurgeon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle: 365 Sermons I recently snuck a few new entries into the list of media resources on the "Links" page. One of them links to a page containing audio sermons by A.W. Tozer (1897-1963). I've started listening to some of these sermons. I find Tozer delightfully forthright and humble.
Here's the page -- may God use these sermons as He sees fit: Tozer Audio Sermons |
All thy sins were laid upon Him, Jesus bore them on the tree;
God, who knew them, laid them on Him, and, believing, thou art free. Joseph Denham Smith (c. 1817-1889) Praise reflection archives
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...take root downward and bear fruit upward.
2 Kings 19:30 |