December 2009
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“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no...”
– Madeleine L’Engle
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“For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet...”
– II Corinthians 8:9
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“The half-hearted Christian attracts nobody by the beauty of his life and wins no...”
– JC Ryle
Thankful for Fleas?
“Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” I Thessalonians 5:16-18
I’ve been reading The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom over the past few weeks. This book has shed a whole new light on the verse above. Corrie and her sister, Betsie, are put into prison by the Germans for housing Jews during World...
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“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did...”
– Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
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“There is no fear of a man’s becoming too full of grace: a plethora of...”
– Charles Spurgeon, Morning and Evening
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“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the...”
– C.S. Lewis
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Oh Holy Night
Yesterday morning at church I got a renewed taste of this Christmas season. Matt Adair said to “look at the manger through the lens of the cross.” I wish I had been a distant witness on the day Christ was born. What a surreal, joyful time that must have been. For hundreds of years the world has been groaning for the day to come—the beginning of the promise of redemption, the promise of a Savior to...
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“Don’t say it , Corrie! There are no ‘if’s’ in...”
– Betsie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place
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I caved...
I’ve always viewed blogs as kind of weird. To be honest, pride alone has kept me from getting a blog. But God has done a good job of humbling me in many different facets these past few months, so I figured a blog could only further quench my pride. I’ve been doing an astronomical amount of reflecting recently, and with so much reflection that goes on in my mind, I figured it’s...