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The Lamb In All His Glory

November 20, 2022 | David Speakman

 “Crown Him the Lord of heav’n,
One with the Father known,
One with the Spirit through Him giv’n
From yonder glorious throne,
To Thee be endless praise
For Thou for us hast died;
Be Thou, O Lord, through endless days
Adored and magnified.” 

Matthew Bridges

“We wonder, What does worship have to do with my work? . . . The work we do together each week in gathered worship transforms and sends us into the work we do in our homes and offices . . . we are people who are blessed and sent; this identity transforms how we embody work and worship in the world, in our week, even in our small day.” 

Tish Harrison Warren

“When I have learned to love God better than all my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.  In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest at all.  When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased.” 

CS Lewis

Heaven: There and Back Again

November 13, 2022 | David Speakman

“Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God.”

Eugene Peterson

“Worship is the arena in which God recalibrates our hearts, reforms our desires, and rehabituates our loves. Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts.”

James K.A. Smith

“Beethoven … turned out pieces of breath-taking rightness. Rightness — that’s the word! When you get the feeling that whatever note succeeds the last is the only possible note that can rightly happen at that instant, in that context, then chances are you’re listening to Beethoven… Our boy has the real goods, the stuff from Heaven, the power to make you feel at the finish: Something is right in the world. There is something that checks throughout, that follows its own law consistently: something we can trust, that will never let us down.”

Leonard Bernstein, The Joy of Music

From Apathy to Zeal

November 6, 2022 | David Speakman

“It is clear that at the very beginning of Christianity, there must have occurred a vast release of energy, unequaled in the history of the race. Without it, the future course of the faith is inexplicable… Something happened to the men who associated with Jesus. That burst of energy was ascribed by the early disciples to the founder of their faith. Why this occurred may lie outside the realms in which historians are supposed to move.” 

Kenneth LaTourette

“A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to say that he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough-going, whole-hearted, fervent in spirit. He only sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is swallowed up in one thing; and that one thing is to please God.” 

JC Ryle

“There are two ways to be fooled: one is to believe what isn’t true, the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” 

Soren Kierkegaard

Encouraging Words to Fragile People

October 30, 2022 | Davis Mooney

“There are no little people in God’s sight, so there are no little places. To be wholly committed to God in the place where God wants him—this is the creature glorified … This is the way of the Christian: he should choose the lesser place until God extrudes him into a position of more responsibility and authority.”

Francis Schaeffer

“The world shouldn’t dictate what we anticipate from God. As the West becomes more committed to a secular belief system, it doesn’t mean we should expect less from God during our lifetime. He is sovereign, which is why we should believe anything is possible. His Spirit can move when and where He wishes.”

Andy Jones

“So if I stand let me stand on the promise that you will pull me through
And if I can’t, let me fall on the grace that first brought me to You
And if I sing let me sing for the joy that has born in me these songs
And if I weep let it be as a man who is longing for his home”

Rich Mullins, “If I Stand”

The Grace of Smelling Salts

October 23, 2022 | Ethan Smith

“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out.”

Eugene Peterson, The Message paraphrase of Romans 12:1-2a

“Come broken and weary, come battered and bruised.
My Jesus makes all things new, all things new.
Come lost and abandoned, come blown by the wind.
He’ll bring you back home again, home again.

Rise up, oh you sleeper, awake,
The light of the dawn is upon you.
Rise up, oh you sleeper, awake,
He makes all things new, all things new.”

Andrew Peterson, “All Things New”

The Grace of Truth and the Truth of Grace

October 16, 2022 | David Speakman

“Idols are non-gods and as such are much more congenial to us than God, for we not only have the pleasure of making them, using our wonderful imaginations and skills in creative ways, but also of controlling them.  They are gods with all the God taken out so that we can continue to be our own gods.” 

Eugene Peterson

“Nothing could be more cruel than the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing could be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls a brother back from his sin.” 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.” 

John 1:14

Under the Sword

October 9, 2022 | David Speakman

“There is no attribute more comforting to His children than that of God’s Sovereignty. Under the most adverse circumstances, in the most severe trials, they believe that Sovereignty has ordained their afflictions, that Sovereignty overrules them, and that Sovereignty will sanctify them all.” 

Charles Spurgeon

“A great mystery: to redeem our brokenness and lovelessness the God who suffers with us did not strike some mighty blow of power but sent his beloved son to suffer like us and through his suffering to redeem us from suffering and evil. Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.”

 Nicholas Wolterstorff

“Jesus has many who love his kingdom in heaven, but few who bear his cross. He has many who desire comfort, but few who desire suffering. He finds many to share his feast, but few his fasting. All desire to rejoice with him, but few are willing to suffer for his sake. Many follow Jesus to the breaking of bread, but few to the drinking of the cup of his passion. Many admire his miracles, but few follow him in the humiliation of the cross.”

Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Memento Mori

October 2, 2022 | Ethan Smith

“We have incredible powers of self-deception and denial. Jesus sees and knows the truth about us that we most need to know. And because he loves us and is bent on blessing us, he is willing to tell us the truth, even though it might be uncomfortable for us to hear.”

Nancy Guthrie, Blessed

“The creative action of the Christian’s life is to prepare his death in Christ.”

 Flannery O’Connor, Memoir of Mary Ann

“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”

Frederick Buechner, Godric

“One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction. … While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”

Tim Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering

Love to the Loveless Shown

September 25, 2022 | David Speakman

“A church can become crowded with legitimate causes, concerns, and needs. And it can be hard to find Jesus.” 

Ray Ortlund

“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself … as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. Man! Ye see it in smaller matters. Did ye never know a lover of books that with all his first editions and signed copies had lost the power to read them? Or an organizer of charities that had lost all love for the poor? It is the subtlest of all the snares.” 

C.S. Lewis

“We love because he first loved us.” 

1 John 4:19

Merciful and Mighty

September 18, 2022 | David Speakman

“Aslan had stopped and turned and stood facing them, looking so majestic that they felt as glad as anyone can who feels afraid, and as afraid as anyone can who feels glad . . . A mad chase began. Round and round the hill-top he led them, now hopelessly out of their reach, now letting them almost catch his tail, now diving between them, now tossing them in the air with his huge and beautifully velveted paws and catching them again, and now stopping unexpectedly so that all three of them rolled over together in a happy laughing heap of fur and arms and legs. It was such a romp as no one has ever had except in Narnia; and whether it was more like playing with a thunderstorm or playing with a kitten Lucy could never make up her mind . . .Terrible paws, if he did not know how to velvet them.” 

CS Lewis, describing Aslan in the Chronicles of Narnia

“The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are not worthy of him.” 

AW Tozer

“Who do you say that I am?” 

Jesus, Matthew 16:15

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