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Reversing Reversed Roles

May 7, 2023 | David Speakman

“The ancient man approached God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God’s acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the Bench and God in the Dock.” 

C.S. Lewis

“The person who knows that she is justified is a person of unbounded confidence and assurance.  She knows that none of her failures can ever change the divine verdict.  It is guaranteed and settled in heaven forever.” 

Sinclair Ferguson

“And the Rock was Christ.” 

Paul to the Corinthians, 1 Corinthians 10:4

Gracious Hands for Grumbling Hearts

April 30, 2023 | David Speakman

“Surrender don’t come natural to me.
I’d rather fight You for something I don’t really want
Than to take what You give that I need.
And I’ve beat my head against so many walls.
Now I’m falling down, I’m falling on my knees” 

Rich Mullins

“Jesus, do you see that wheelchair? You were right when you said that in this world we would have trouble, because that thing was a lot of trouble. But the weaker I was in that thing, the harder I leaned on you. And the harder I leaned on you, the stronger I discovered you to be. It never would have happened had you not given me the bruising of the blessing of that wheelchair.” 

Joni Eareckson Tada

“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” 

C.S. Lewis

Singing Salvation

April 23, 2023 | David Speakman

“To Christ the Lord let every tongue
Its noblest tribute bring.
When He’s the subject of the song,
Who can refuse to sing?
Survey the beauties of His face
And on His glories dwell.
Think of the wonder of His grace
And all His triumphs tell.

Since from His bounty I receive
Such proofs of love divine,
Had I a thousand hearts to give
Lord, they should all be Thine!
A thousand men could not compose
A worthy song to bring,
Yet Your love is a melody
Our hearts can’t help but sing!” 

Samuel Stennett

“Words and music did for me what solid, even rigorous religious argument could never do—they introduced me to God, not belief in God, more an experiential sense of God.” 

Bono

Learning for a Lifetime

April 16, 2023 | David Speakman

“You can survive on your own.  You can grow strong on your own.  You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.  Surely that is why, in Jesus’ sad joke, the rich man has as hard a time getting into Paradise as that camel through the needle’s eye because with his credit card in his pocket, the rich man is so effective at getting for himself everything he needs that he does not see that what he needs more than anything else in the world can be had only as a gift.  He does not see that the one thing a clenched fist cannot do is accept, even from [God] himself, a helping hand.” 

Frederick Buechner

“Great is the rest and gladness of sitting down at our Redeemer’s feet, the door shut and the key turned upon our self-applause.” 

Henry Moule

“Trust is the only way we can survive in the wilderness.” 

Chuck DeGroat

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” 

Corrie Ten Boom

Promises Made, Promises Kept

March 26, 2023 | David Speakman

“For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ. And so through him the ‘Amen’ is spoken by us to the glory of God.” 

2 Corinthians 1:20

“By April 1970 I had grown sick to death of the church viewed as ‘religious cushion’ and me as chief cushioner. I had been a pastor for more than a decade and instructor at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia for four years. I had given it all my best shot. But as a change agent I had bombed out. I was awash with cynicism about the prospects of the Christian church and went around with continual sorrow in my heart over the state of the churches around me. In a mood of dark despair I resigned both from the seminary faculty and from my pastorate . . . I began an intensive study of the promises of God in Scripture. I spent long hours tracing out great themes of grace predicted in Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Joel, Habakkuk, and Zechariah. Sometimes, like a man dying of thirst, I drank in the Gospel of John and the enormous promises presented in it . . . As the weeks passed, my mind also began to be captured by the vastness of God’s promises. I was awed by what the risen Lord had promised to me in my weakness, utterly silenced in my soul like an astronomer unexpectedly seeing a whole new galaxy when he was only searching for a single planet! . . . The promises are the handles we grab in our weakness in order to secure His Presence.” 

Jack Miller, Outgrowing the Ingrown Church

“There is more in God’s promises to comfort than in this world to perplex.” 

Thomas Watson

Safe

March 19, 2023 | Ethan Smith

“The language of Christianity is the language of substitution. It is not primarily the language of morals. God is not presented as a mother saying ‘eat all your vegetables.’ Instead, Christianity is about a one-sided rescue—that we didn’t want and certainly didn’t deserve, and he did it anyway.”

Rod Rosenbladt

“Moved by the perfection of his holy love, God in Christ substituted himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the Cross of Christ.”

John Stott

“Self-help is the American gospel, which translates into self-congratulation and self-protection. … Jesus looks at us and he knows that we cannot help ourselves. He looks at us this very day in the same way he looked at every human being that he encountered during his earthly life: with infinite sadness for our predicament, yet with unquenchable love and with unflinching resolve to rescue us from certain condemnation and death, whatever it took, wherever it led, whatever the price. ‘Self-help’ is crucified with Christ.”

Fleming Rutledge

God Wins

March 12, 2023 | Ethan Smith

“Give us faith to be strong
Father, we are so weak
Our bodies are fragile and weary
As we stagger and stumble to walk where you lead
Give us faith to be strong”

Andrew Peterson, “Faith to Be Strong”

“The love that is the heartbeat of the Christian story—the Father’s love for the Son, and through the Son, for the world—is not simply a sentimental feeling or a distant, ethereal theological truth, but has been signed and sealed by the most audacious act of true power in the history of the world, the resurrection of the Son from the dead. Power at its best is resurrection to full life, to full humanity. Whenever human beings become what they were meant to be, whenever death cannot finally hold its prisoners, then we can truly speak of power.”

Andy Crouch, Playing God

“God is God, and there is no hope for non-gods who want to be gods, except through the God-man who became a curse for us.”

Kevin DeYoung

Courage, Dear Heart

March 5, 2023 | David Speakman

“Oh! I love God’s ‘shalls’ and ‘wills.’ There is nothing comparable to them. Let a man say ‘shall,’ what is it good for? ‘I will,’ says man, and he never performs; ‘I shall,’ says he, and he breaks his promise. But it is never so with God’s ‘shalls.’ If He says ‘shall,’ it shall be; when He says ‘will,’ it will be.” 

Charles Spurgeon

“The secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt he is.” 

Ann Voskamp

“A bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench . . . they have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.” 

Isaiah 42:3 and Jeremiah 8:11

It’s the Hope that Kills You

February 26, 2023 | Ethan Smith

“Hast Thou not bid me seek Thy face,
And shall I seek in vain?
And can the ear of sovereign grace,
Be deaf when I complain?
No still the ear of sovereign grace,
Attends the mourner’s prayer.
Oh may I ever find access,
To breathe my sorrows there.” 

Anne Steele

“When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.” 

Stephen Crane

“If we remember God’s grace, we lose the pride that would make us a Pharisee and the despair that would make us a cynic.” 

Merold Westphal

Layers of Resistance and God’s Gracious Provision

February 19, 2023 | Davis Mooney

“Consider the mighty ways in which God used a dead stick of wood. ‘God so used a stick of wood’ can be a banner cry for each of us. Though we are limited and weak in talent, physical energy and psychological strength, we are not less than a stick of wood. But as the rod of Moses had to become the rod of God, so that which is me must become the me of God. The Scripture emphasizes that much can come from little if the little is truly consecrated to God.”

Francis Schaeffer, “No Little People, No Little Places”

“Take these hands / Teach them what to carry
Take these hands / Don’t make a fist
Take this mouth / So quick to criticize
Take this mouth / Give it a kiss

Yahweh, Yahweh / Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh / Still I’m waiting for the dawn”

U2, “Yahweh”

“For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong…”

1 Corinthians 1:26-27

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