Resource Manager Posted March 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2013 26 March 2013"It is surely quite clear that if anyone studied the world before there was life on it he could never have predicted life; if he had studied vegetation he would never have predicted animal life; if he had studied the animal world he would never have predicted human civilization and the arts; and if he had studied the selfishness of mankind he could never have predicted a life of perfect and selfless love. At each stage we reasonably trace the special activity of the Will whose purpose is the explanation of all things."- William TempleDivine Will at Every Stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2013 27 March 2013"The day of his coming draws on apace, the day of resurrection and judgment. This is the beginning for which the world is groaning, without knowing it. "Behold," says the Lord Jesus Christ, "I make all things new." For this we wait, and this alone is our hope in the fleeting years of our mortal life. The word of God, and keeping Christ thus in memory is powerful to enable us to hold fast until he come."- C.C. WalkerIn the Beginning (1908) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2013 28 March 2013"Do we sufficiently realize the greatness of the Lord Jesus? When Paul tries to estimate the exceeding greatness of God’s power towards us who believe, he directs us to look at Jesus whom He raised from the dead and exalted "far above everything that is named". The apostle exhausts his language in trying to describe the greatness of Jesus Christ raised from the dead, and then he adds, "and He has given him to be the head over all things" to the church which is his body. Thus "highly exalted" by God, as we think of his Lordship let us remember that it betokens his power and his relationship to those who are in him."- John CarterLord of Both Dead and Living (1952) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2013 29 March 2013"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living Way ... let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith" (Hebrews 10:19-22)."Let us go forth across the hills and the dales, walking in faith, with new spiritual food energizing us to prepare the Way of the Lord, making straight in the desert a highway for our God. Let us be called men and women of "The Way" like those first century Christians. Let us never forget that the whole seeming maze of history in nature and man has running through it one supreme dominating Way; that he who on earth was called Jesus the Nazarene is that Way. If we remain in his way we shall know the truth, and the truth will make us free, that we may lay hold on eternal life. "This is the Way, walk ye in it"."- Colin EdwardsThe Way (1967) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2013 30 March 2013"Let us nurture a living faith on the Word, after the pattern of him who proclaimed the reality and supremacy and holiness of God; proclaimed it in his Temptation and on the Cross, for he died to declare God’s righteousness. This reality we remember as we take the emblems of his death which are also the tokens of his victory."- L.G. SargentStrength Against Temptation (1949) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted March 31, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2013 31 March 2013 "The emblems of Christ’s death and God’s love in themselves speak only of a death and burial, but there is the next chapter that speaks of resurrection to eternal life, the turning of the ashes of mourning to the oil of joy. We have passed on to it for consolation after passing through the chapter of death. Now can we not for ourselves reach forward to the next chapter and dwell upon the beauty of the thought that Christ’s experiences must be ours if we are his brethren and sisters following in his steps? We pass through trial and humiliation and at last through death; we may be reviled by fellow sufferers as Christ was, and let us remember one of those turned in time from his reviling before Christ died and received words of salvation. We look out at the long day that must pass before our rest comes, but evening and morning come as they did to Christ. Let us not bind our own hands from service and accept the drugged cup of ignoble pleasures that rot the fibre of our minds and make us vessels of dishonour in the service of God. There is help by the wayside if the burden grows too heavy to be borne unaided. There are angels to roll away the stone if we are swallowed by the grave, and there are the words whose echoes have never died away: “This same Jesus shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go”. Even so, come Lord Jesus, come quickly."- C.A. LadsonTwo Dawns (1980) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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