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Earlier this year, I learned about Clayton TV, a site that posts sermons and other talks from various evangelical churches in Britain. The sermon I've linked to below is a beautiful, gentle message explaining why we need Jesus. It's so clear and so respectfully presented, it would be a wonderful introductory gospel message for those who have doubts, yet it's also an important reminder for all of us about Jesus' lordship and His forgiveness.
If the video stops unexpectedly in one or two spots, try clicking the little "HD" button. A dear friend recently loaned me a biography of Hudson Taylor (1832-1905), one of the earliest missionary pioneers to China. It's no coincidence that God has me reading this book right now. Through Hudson Taylor's insights, I see that the critical issues He's been tackling in me recently are the symptom of a much deeper underlying work He wishes to do. I read and re-read this letter Hudson Taylor wrote to one of his sisters, which appears in the biography I'm reading but has also been reproduced online*: "The Exchanged Life" On my second and third readings of this letter, I became increasingly frustrated to read about Hudson Taylor's immediate grasp of the principles God revealed to him. Perhaps because we live in an information-oversaturated age, I can read the very same words he did and not be transformed in the way he was. It helped a great deal, therefore, to read the letters Taylor subsequently wrote to his children (at school in England) and to another sister, in which he expounds on these truths in plainer, but profound, terms: From a letter to his children**:
From a letter to another sister***:
This is part of a new beginning for me. It's not yet the reality of my everyday walk, but one day, before too long, I believe it will be. I have prayed God to make it plain to me, and to help me so to trust in Jesus.
_______________ Sources: * Found on the "Wholesome Words" website, under Worldwide Missions -- Missionary Biographies -- James Hudson Taylor -- The Exchanged Life. ** From page 181 of Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret, by Dr. and Mrs. Howard Taylor (Howard and Geraldine Taylor), Chicago: Moody Press, 2009. (First published in 1932) *** From page 182 of the same book |
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