Resource Manager Posted November 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2017 26 November 2017 "As to what manner of men the Apostles were we are left in no doubt. Their controlling desire is expressed in the words: “The fear of the Lord is to depart from evil,” moved by love to God and His son their Saviour. We know they were men of prayer. Peter was so engaged when he had the vision which led to his going to Cornelius. There was no standing still in the cultivation of Christian virtues, but a day to day endeavour towards perfection. We do well, especially in view of modern tendencies, to compare ourselves with these men, and the way they proceeded with Christianity. We can take our instructions from Jesus. We can appeal to the facts of the case. We can claim it is God’s work and be His labourers together. And most important of all, difficult and therefore all the more glorious, we can be careful to observe all things He commands. Happy for us if, judging by our conduct, our fellowmen can call us Christians of the type of the disciples who received that designation at Antioch." - J.W. DorricottThe Acts of the Apostles (1943) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 27, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2017 27 November 2017 "... faith is more than affirmation of doctrines; and hope more than confidence; and love more than sentiment. For the faith is that trust in God which refuses any longer to have confidence in man. And the hope is the eager desire for the fullest participation, now and in the time to come, in the fulfilment of God’s promises. And the love is born of the highest love, for “we love him because he first loved us”. Such a faith comes nigh to the throne of grace for help in need, because it knows that man cannot supply it, and is certain that God can; such a hope knows that the self-satisfaction of the voluntary absentee is incompatible with the profession that all its expectation lies in God; and such a love can desire nothing better than the most intimate association with the God who loved them so that He gave His Son to die for them, and with those others for whom also the gift was made." - A.D. NorrisSunday Morning (1950) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted November 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2017 28 November 2017 "Our priest is sympathetic and understanding; he has himself been tempted and tried. He has felt weariness and known travail of soul. He has found refreshment in the river of life and knows its sustaining power. So the Psalmist said it would be: “He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore he shall lift up the head”. So he was helped; so he overcame; and in this way with his help we too may be among those who overcome." - John CarterThe Psalms and Jesus (1949) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 29 November 2017 "... The house must be built; we cannot escape responsibility by leaving it to others; yet a wrong motive means building with wood, hay, stubble, which will all go up in flames in the day of judgment, instead of building with imperishable stone." - L.G. SargentThe Preacher and the Word (1951) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted December 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2017 30 November 2017 "... love and forbearance shown by David was of course but a type of the greater love consistently apparent in the life of him “who, when he was reviled, reviled not again ... but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously” (1 Peter 2:23). It is, in fact, to the example of God in Christ that John himself turns in justification of his insistence upon the pre-eminent virtue and distinction of love in the Christian life: “Hereby know we love, because (Christ) laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren” (a conscious allusion to John 15:12-13). “Herein is (the essence of) love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another” (John 3:16; John 4:10-11)." - N.J. SmartLove One Another (1952) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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