Resource Manager Posted October 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2015 26 October 2015 "Known Unto God – No book deals with such momentous issues as the Word of God. Its grand central theme is that divine purpose whereby, at last, a sinful world will be reconciled in its entirety to its holy and righteous Maker, and the whole earth will be filled with His glory. Great events in the annals of mankind which are unrelated to that purpose, the Scriptures leave unmentioned, while much which the discriminating historian would judge as of no significance for posterity is often, because it impinges directly upon that same great purpose, recorded in the greatest detail." - W.F. BarlingSunday Morning (1949) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 27, 2015 27 October 2015 "Consult in full the beautiful utterances of David in 2 Samuel 22-23, and listen to Isaiah when he says, “You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you: because he trusts in you. Trust in the LORD forever: for in the LORD GOD is everlasting strength” (Isaiah 26:3). God is faithful and we can trust Him completely, abandoning all self-interest and self-reliance, being anxious to obey Him in all things in whom we are assured. And, because we lay hold on Him who is firm and steadfast, we can ourselves become firm and reliable. We become faithful, for our faith promotes our fidelity." - J.A. BalchinGod is Faithful (1961) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 28, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2015 28 October 2015 "Humility is an attitude of subjection out of love for the King’s goodness. How can understanding men and women ever be proud in the presence of the God of eternal time, of unlimited space, of unchangeable character—God infinite in grace and matchless in love? It is the knowledge of God which generates the birth of humility in the soul." - Dennis GillettThe Genius of Discipleship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2015 29 October 2015 "Knowledge alone ... is not enough; it needs to be sifted, analyzed, ordered, digested and absorbed into the general stock of our ideas and thoughts. A well stocked mind is something quite different from a mind which is merely stuffed with knowledge, and in the Proverbs we are admonished to seek not only knowledge, but also understanding and wisdom. Only knowledge which has been well digested can contribute to the development of the other two qualities." - E.J. NewmanOf Making Many Books (1951) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2015 30 October 2015 "We are being exhorted to higher things: not simply the purifying of ordinary men by ennobling virtues of man’s devising but by transformation of the sons of men into the sons of God. "But encourage yourselves each day, as long as it is called To-day, that none of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we are become companions of the Christ if indeed we hold the beginning of the assurance firm to the end." (Hebrews 3:13-14) Great things indeed. Partakers of Christ!" - Harry TennantEcclesial Servants (1962) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted October 31, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2015 31 October 2015 "The Word of God grew in volume through the centuries. Whatever records may have been made by God’s people before his time, Moses under divine guidance incorporated them into his majestic account of God’s creation and its results, and his statement of the divine law. Those who lived in Joshua’s day were expected to accept all that Moses had written. To this were later added “the psalms” and then “the prophets”. These were accompanied by a continuous historical record, each of its successive parts being joined to the foregoing by the word “and”, and all treated as the divine comment on Israel’s career. So the faithful in the days of the prophets received the law and the psalms and the relevant histories as all the Word of God. The attitude of Christ and his apostles was the same: they accepted “the law, the psalms and the prophets” as the Word of God, not excluding any of them. Continuing the same process, the believers of the early centuries founded their faith upon the writings of the Old Testament, to which they added the Gospels, the Acts, the Epistles of the inspired apostles, and the Revelation. So when the apostles had passed away, the believers of the early centuries were in time found accepting the whole of the Old and the New Testament Scriptures as the Word of God." - Fred PearceOur Unique Faith (1977) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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