Resource Manager Posted July 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 26, 2012 26 July 2012 The Nobleman and the Centurion "The nobleman needed to learn humility; not so the centurion. The nobleman asked Jesus to come to his house, and Jesus did not attempt to do so; the centurion rose above this, asking Jesus not to come, though Jesus was on his way to the house. In both cases Jesus sends the healing word: in one case it travelled some 20 miles; in the other, perhaps only a few hundred yards. In the former case, a weak faith was made strong; in the latter case, a supreme degree of faith was crowned and rewarded. Pride was abased and humility honoured and exalted. Such are the ways of God with those who, in varying degrees, place themselves in His hands." - A. R. LongleyWhere is your Faith?The Christadelphian - 1975 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 27, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2012 27 July 2012 "To those who wait upon the Lord there is always given the strength to meet the trials of the day. We ought not to have anxiety as to the trials of tomorrow. Day by day our duties may become more arduous, temptations stronger, trials more severe. But we are assured that the imparted strength grows at the same rate. Consequently we can always be equal to the duties, and victorious over temptations, and sustained under the trials."- C. Lamb "Be on guard. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong."1 Corinthians 16:13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2012 28 July 2012 "The teaching and precepts of Jesus expressed in the clear symmetry of the Sermon on the Mount are not abstract ideals, as beautiful as mountain peaks and as remote, to be preserved and worshipped in devotional hours and ignored in the hurly-burly of daily living. They form a working philosophy of life which is the only road a disciple can tread. A steep and difficult road truly, but one which Jesus himself was treading. Nor did he demand that his disciples should tread it alone. He reached out his hand and led them towards its summit." - Melva PurkisA Life of Jesus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 29, 2012 29 July 2012 "God does not change, but is absolutely consistent in His dealings with His children, and the fundamental conditions on which forgiveness is offered to men remain the same, whether we look in the Old Testament or the New. God is a merciful and a forgiving God. "As a father has compassion on his children, so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him; for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust." (Psalm 103:13-14). From the beginning, in Eden, God has always asked for obedience by His children, and this is not just a capricious demand, but an essential for the filling of the earth with His glory. Obedience to His will develops characters like His own, as manifested in His Son, and is "the way" by which Jesus, our forerunner went "to the Father" (John 14:6), thus healing the breach caused by man’s sin. "yet not my will, but yours be done" (Luke 22:42)." - N. L. EvansFellowship and Forgiveness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2012 30 July 2012 "So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." "Faith is a matter of development. It is useless, however, to pray 'Increase our faith,' unless we are diligent in the cultivation of it. Faith is confidence in God, and faith in God is created in the same way as faith in one another is created. If we by experience know a brother or sister to be wise, kind, upright, and God-fearing, we trust them, and on the same principle, we require to know God and the better we know Him the more we trust Him. Faith is not a spontaneous production. It does not spring up like a mushroom in a night. It grows slowly, but nevertheless surely, if we avail ourselves of the way God has given us to increase it. This can only come through familiarity with His sayings and doings as revealed in His Word. In this book, God has proved himself to be faithful, loving, merciful, just, almighty and infallible." - J.S. Mann Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted July 31, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2012 31 July 2012 "A GREAT and wonderful thing about the Word of God is that it is all-sufficient. There is here bread from heaven, water from the rock, oil from the flinty rock, milk and honey, wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and the balm of Gilead to heal us in our woes. Wherever we may turn in its pages, we find events and circumstances that can easily be transposed to fit our difficulty, or to answer our need. They were given that the man of God might be complete, thoroughly furnished unto all good works." - John Mitchell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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