TFTD - September 2016

[Resource Manager]

26 September 2016

 

"... the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God? That we should take up gladly and joyfully because it contains the glad tidings, the joyful news. Yet how often does the reading of the Bible seem to be a chore because we are busy or tired and, after all, we have read the words so many times. ‘It surely will do no harm to give it a miss for once.’ But we all know how easily once turns into twice and so on until we find we are missing the readings more often than we are doing them. How lovely it would be if we could always sing to God in absolute truth,

 

"O how love I Your law, it is my study all the day ..."

 

- Graham Cooke

The Whole Armour of God (1994)

[Resource Manager]

27 September 2016

 

"... We too live in a world of uncertainty and instability, rent by war, torn by suspicion and corrupted by indiscipline—a world that has lost all sense of the absolute and the secure. Its true prophets, speaking from God’s Word, tell us in like terms of a new age to dawn, of a world ruler who will bring peace and hope and joy to the earth. Yet even now the same crying needs of our human hearts, our fears, our doubts, our sadness, our despair can be answered and satisfied in the light which first shone from a babe in a manger, glowed from a life of love, of pain and of death and now pours from the living presence of Jesus in Heaven."

 

- S. Harris

An Age of Expectancy (1969)

[Resource Manager]

28 September 2016

 

"... the perception of gospel truth, though it requires and demands a certain level of intelligence, is not by any means a matter of intelligence alone. This is evident from the large numbers of highly intelligent people who in all generations have come into contact with the gospel and have been untouched in any significant degree by its message: “Not many wise men after the flesh are called”—and in this category are the scribes and Pharisees and elders of the Jews, and the Areopagites of Athens. Indeed in some respects mere intellect can operate positively against the gospel and the perception of its message—can involve us in over-subtlety, in tortuous and sometimes perverse windings of the mind through which we become involved in elaborate and complex speculations and are unable in the end to see reasonable probabilities for the mass of unlikely and remote possibilities, unable to see the wood for trees, unable to distinguish a gnat from a camel. And like other great gifts it can often breed in its recipient a matching conceit and arrogance."

 

- Neville Smart

The Simplicity that is in Christ (1965)

[Resource Manager]

29 September 2016

 

"We may marvel at the claim that the Scriptures make of being able to “make a man wise unto salvation”: but there is nothing that offends reason in this high claim if the Scriptures have come from God. Nor is there anything extravagant about the Bible’s claim to foretell the future if it is the message of an omnipotent, omniscient God."

 

- Peter Watkins

The Challenge of the Scriptures (1961)

[Resource Manager]

30 September 2016

 

"We must see the world as it is without blinkers, and then look away—away unto Jesus, "the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:2). In him we see the perfect loyalty and the perfect love. His body broken is our Passover sacrifice; his blood shed is the seal of our covenant. In these we find the love which overcame the world."

 

- L.G. Sargent

Covenant with God (1958)