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Held by His Love

May 28, 2023 | Ethan Smith

“God descended in fire on Sinai to write the Law on tablets of stone; on that day, 3000 died. At Pentecost, God descended in fire on Zion to write his law on the tablets of his people’s hearts, and on that day 3000 were reborn. … God will graciously seal you with his Spirit so that you can know you are his forever and invite others into that eternal bond of love.”

David Cassidy

“The movement of God’s Spirit is very gentle, very soft—and hidden. It does not seek attention. But that movement is also very persistent, strong and deep. It changes our hearts radically. The faithful discipline of prayer reveals to you that you are the blessed one and gives you the power to bless others.”

Henri Nouwen

“This is what it means to be held
How it feels when the sacred is torn from your life
And you survive
This is what it is to be loved
And to know that the promise was
When everything fell, we’d be held”

Natalie Grant

How He Loves Us So

May 21, 2023 | Ethan Smith

“No one who meets Jesus ever stays the same. I have found that the doubts that afflict me from many sources—from science, from comparative religion, from an innate defect of skepticism, from aversion to the church—take on a new light when I bring those doubts to the man named Jesus.”

Philip Yancey, The Jesus I Never Knew

“Celebration belongs to God’s Kingdom. God not only offers forgiveness, reconciliation, and healing, but wants to lift up these gifts as a source of joy for all who witness them. … God rejoices and invites others to rejoice with him.”

Henri Nouwen, The Return of the Prodigal Son

“Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here, the tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be  …
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here”

Switchfoot, “Dare You to Move”

Who Loves You?

May 14, 2023 | Ethan Smith

“Christians find it easier to believe that God exists than that God loves them.”

Brennan Manning (paraphrasing Basil Hume)

“If the love of a father will not make a child delight in him, what will? Put, then, this to the venture: exercise your thoughts upon this very thing, the eternal, free, and fruitful love of the Father, and see if your hearts be not wrought upon to delight in him. … Sit down a little at the fountain, and you will quickly have a farther discovery of the sweetness of the streams. You who have run from him, will not be able, after a while, to keep at a distance for a moment.”

John Owen

“[Adoption] is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification. … In adoption, God takes us into his family and fellowship—he establishes us as his children and heirs. Closeness, affection and generosity are at the heart of the relationship. To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.“

J.I. Packer

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

Don’t Turn Away – Look!

April 9, 2023 | David Speakman

“The most fantastic of all Christian claims is that Jesus Christ rose from the dead. It strains our credulity to the limit. Human beings have tried with all possible ingenuity both to defy and to deny death. But only Christ has claimed to conquer it, that is, to defeat it in his own experience, and to deprive it of its power over others.” 

John Stott

“Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall . . .

Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.” 

John Updike

“Practice resurrection.” 

Wendell Berry

Who Is This? The Humble and Exalted Messiah

April 2, 2023 | Davis Mooney

“We face the same challenge the Israelites faced long ago. Jesus is king, but we must let him define his kingship. We must receive Jesus as he is, not as we would like him to be. We must let him come on a donkey, not a stallion. We must let him define his reign.”

Dan Doriani

“Well, I’ve got no answers
For hurt knees and cancers
But a Savior who suffers them with me”

John Mark McMillan; The Road, The Rocks, and The Weeds

“And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

Philippians 2:8-11

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

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