Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and
I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity
Lou Holtz
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come
to the end; then stop.
Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland
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Sunday, May 12, 2002
Faith
Quote: Faith is something we grow into; doubt is something we grow out of. Gradually. And the movement is not always forward -- out of doubt into faith. It is a line that wavers. As we picture a partially filled cup, we sometimes speculate: is the cup half full, or half empty? If we see faith as the contents of the cup, is it half full of faith, or half full of doubt? And if we look at the cup -- our experience -- and see one-half doubt, is doubt all we see? As God looks at the half-full, half-empty cup, what does He see? The doubt? Or the faith? Or, if faith is nearly a tiny seed -- say, a mustard seed -- can God see it? Is He moved by it? Or is He too busy gazing at the ample doubt that may surround that speck of faith? We know the answer: God sees such faith. And is moved.
James Long was senior editor of Campus Life magazine at the time he wrote this.
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Quote: Faith is something we grow into; doubt is something we grow out of. Gradually. And the movement is not always forward -- out of doubt into faith. It is a line that wavers. As we picture a partially filled cup, we sometimes speculate: is the cup half full, or half empty? If we see faith as the contents of the cup, is it half full of faith, or half full of doubt? And if we look at the cup -- our experience -- and see one-half doubt, is doubt all we see? As God looks at the half-full, half-empty cup, what does He see? The doubt? Or the faith? Or, if faith is nearly a tiny seed -- say, a mustard seed -- can God see it? Is He moved by it? Or is He too busy gazing at the ample doubt that may surround that speck of faith? We know the answer: God sees such faith. And is moved.
James Long was senior editor of Campus Life magazine at the time he wrote this.
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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your
mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in
something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself!
Be somebody! Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger
than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Norman Vincent Peale
(1898-1993, American Christian Reformed Pastor, Speaker, Author)
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Elliot on the law of God
"The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul"
(Ps. 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence.
The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but
forgives. It restores -- more than abundantly -- what it takes
away.
... Jim Elliot (1927-1856)
[Thanks to Bill Blake at pilgrimwb@aol.com]
"The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul"
(Ps. 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence.
The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but
forgives. It restores -- more than abundantly -- what it takes
away.
... Jim Elliot (1927-1856)
[Thanks to Bill Blake at pilgrimwb@aol.com]
[cqod] 01/22/02 -- Buechner: persistence in prayer
According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about
praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not,
one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door
before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe
there's no way of getting to your door.
... Frederick Buechner
According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about
praying is to keep at it... Be importunate, Jesus says -- not,
one assumes, because you have to beat a path to God's door
before he'll open it, but because until you beat the path maybe
there's no way of getting to your door.
... Frederick Buechner
[cqod] 03/14/02 -- Law: expect nothing from ourselves
Each of these foregoing states has its time, its variety of
workings, its trials, temptations, and purifications, which can
only be known by experience in the passage through them. The
one only and infallible way to go safely through all the
difficulties, trials, temptations, dryness, or opposition of
our own evil tempers is this: It is to expect nothing from
ourselves, to trust to nothing in ourselves, but in everything
to expect and depend upon God for relief. Keep fast hold of
this thread, and then let your way be what it will -- darkness,
temptation, or the rebellion of nature -- you will be led
through it all, to an union with God: for nothing hurts us in
any state but an expectation of some thing in it and from it,
which we should only expect from God. (Continued tomorrow)
... William Law (1686-1761), Christian Perfection
Each of these foregoing states has its time, its variety of
workings, its trials, temptations, and purifications, which can
only be known by experience in the passage through them. The
one only and infallible way to go safely through all the
difficulties, trials, temptations, dryness, or opposition of
our own evil tempers is this: It is to expect nothing from
ourselves, to trust to nothing in ourselves, but in everything
to expect and depend upon God for relief. Keep fast hold of
this thread, and then let your way be what it will -- darkness,
temptation, or the rebellion of nature -- you will be led
through it all, to an union with God: for nothing hurts us in
any state but an expectation of some thing in it and from it,
which we should only expect from God. (Continued tomorrow)
... William Law (1686-1761), Christian Perfection
[cqod] 02/24/02 -- Packer: the intolerance of the logical
All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are
not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist that
they reject it. What causes this odd state of affairs? The
root cause is the same as in most cases of error in the Church
-- the intruding of rationalistic speculations, the passion for
systematic consistency, a reluctance to recognize the existence
of mystery and to let God be wiser than men, and a consequent
subjecting of Scripture to the supposed demands of human logic.
People see that the Bible teaches man's responsibility for his
actions; they do not see how this is consistent with the
sovereign Lordship of God over those actions. They are not
content to let the two truths live side by side, as they do in
the Scriptures, but jump to the conclusion that, in order to
uphold the biblical truth of human responsibility, they are
bound to reject the equally biblical and equally true doctrine
of divine sovereignty, and to explain away the great number of
texts that teach it. The desire to over-simplify the Bible by
cutting out the mysteries is natural to our perverse minds, and
it is not surprising, that even good men should fall victims to
it.
... J. I. Packer (1926- ),
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are
not aware that they do, and mistakenly imagine and insist that
they reject it. What causes this odd state of affairs? The
root cause is the same as in most cases of error in the Church
-- the intruding of rationalistic speculations, the passion for
systematic consistency, a reluctance to recognize the existence
of mystery and to let God be wiser than men, and a consequent
subjecting of Scripture to the supposed demands of human logic.
People see that the Bible teaches man's responsibility for his
actions; they do not see how this is consistent with the
sovereign Lordship of God over those actions. They are not
content to let the two truths live side by side, as they do in
the Scriptures, but jump to the conclusion that, in order to
uphold the biblical truth of human responsibility, they are
bound to reject the equally biblical and equally true doctrine
of divine sovereignty, and to explain away the great number of
texts that teach it. The desire to over-simplify the Bible by
cutting out the mysteries is natural to our perverse minds, and
it is not surprising, that even good men should fall victims to
it.
... J. I. Packer (1926- ),
Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God
[cqod] 02/03/02 -- Thiselton: unveiling the revelation
Only by critical questioning can I tell whether I am
reading into the text, not only my own presuppositions and
questions, but also those of my own generation and even those
of my own church and religious tradition. Evangelicals have
been too afraid of the word "criticism", when only by critical
questioning can I sufficiently disengage myself from my own
worldly or religious (even evangelical) tradition to ask: Is
this what the Bible is really saying?
... Tony Thiselton
Only by critical questioning can I tell whether I am
reading into the text, not only my own presuppositions and
questions, but also those of my own generation and even those
of my own church and religious tradition. Evangelicals have
been too afraid of the word "criticism", when only by critical
questioning can I sufficiently disengage myself from my own
worldly or religious (even evangelical) tradition to ask: Is
this what the Bible is really saying?
... Tony Thiselton
Lewis: who needs our prayers?
Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in
response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does
not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no
urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things
that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate.
He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without
food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and
butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or
convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows
soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills
of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says
Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures
the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever
we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really
stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the
course of events than that my other actions should do so.
... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "The Efficacy of Prayer"
Can we believe that God ever modifies His action in
response to the suggestions of man? For infinite wisdom does
not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no
urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things
that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate.
He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without
food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and
butchers; or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or
convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows
soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills
of men to cooperate in the execution of His will. "God", says
Pascal, "instituted prayer in order to lend to His creatures
the dignity of causality." But it is not only prayer; whenever
we act at all, He lends us that dignity. It is not really
stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the
course of events than that my other actions should do so.
... C. S. Lewis (1898-1963), "The Efficacy of Prayer"
[cqod] 05/05/02 -- Eckhart: the greatest sufferer
There never was a pain that befell a man, no frustration or
discouragement, however insignificant, that, transferred to
God, did not affect God endlessly more than man and was not
infinitely more contrary to Him. So, if God puts up with it
for the sake of some good He foresees for you, and if you are
willing to suffer what God suffers, and to take what comes to
you through Him, then whatever it is, it becomes divine in
itself; shame becomes honor, bitterness becomes sweet, and
gross darkness, clear light. Everything takes its savor from
God and becomes divine; everything that happens betrays God
when a man's mind works that way. Things have all this one
taste; and therefore God is the same to this man alike in
life's bitterest moments and sweetest pleasures.
... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?), Spiritual Instructions
There never was a pain that befell a man, no frustration or
discouragement, however insignificant, that, transferred to
God, did not affect God endlessly more than man and was not
infinitely more contrary to Him. So, if God puts up with it
for the sake of some good He foresees for you, and if you are
willing to suffer what God suffers, and to take what comes to
you through Him, then whatever it is, it becomes divine in
itself; shame becomes honor, bitterness becomes sweet, and
gross darkness, clear light. Everything takes its savor from
God and becomes divine; everything that happens betrays God
when a man's mind works that way. Things have all this one
taste; and therefore God is the same to this man alike in
life's bitterest moments and sweetest pleasures.
... Meister Eckhart (1260?-1327?), Spiritual Instructions
Proper Perspective
A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye
and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it
at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw
it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny
bump on the pathway of life.
Celia Luce
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A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye
and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it
at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw
it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny
bump on the pathway of life.
Celia Luce
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[cqod] 05/10/02 -- Brooks: our need of discontent
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes
absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the
thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there
is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great
desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant
and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child
of God.
... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes
absolutely contented with the life he is leading, with the
thoughts he is thinking, with the deeds he is doing; when there
is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great
desire to do something larger, which he knows that he was meant
and made to do because he is still, in spite of all, the child
of God.
... Phillips Brooks (1835-1893)
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