Resource Manager Posted April 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 26 April 2013"What is the basis of our worship? Not at a place specially chosen; not with the blood of animals; not through fellow men appointed as priests; but by our standing in grace, wherever we may be we come to God through the open way established in the death of Jesus Christ, through him who lives for ever, whose priesthood cannot be superseded, and whose offering needs not to be repeated. Our own offering is our praise, and the presenting of our bodies a living sacrifice, which is a service we offer in full understanding, with our reason recognising and directing what we do."- John CarterOur Worship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 27, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2013 27 April 2013"Is anything too hard for the Lord?" The angel’s answer to the doubts of Sarah is also the final answer to the doubts of all whose faith finds difficulty in the idea of God’s personal intervention in human affairs. "God can! and God will!", faith declares, whether it be the birth of a child of promise against all human expectation, or the rebirth of a nation cast off for its waywardness (Jeremiah 32:17, 37), or the beginning of a New Creation through a divine child born of a virgin (Luke 1:37)."- H.A. WhittakerAbraham: Father of the Faithful (1966) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2013 28 April 2013"God is taking out of the nations a people. The means employed is the preaching of the Word. The oral message of the first century, with its appeal to and reasoning from the Old Testament, was the authoritative expression of God's will. The inspired writings of the New Testament collected together under the guidance of the Spirit in the prophets of the first century exercise the same authority to-day. Hence we may take to ourselves the counsel of the apostle:"I commend you to God, and the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among them that are sanctified." (Acts 20:32)"- John CarterThe Gifts of the Spirit (1934) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 29, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2013 29 April 2013"Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom" (Matthew 25:34), is spoken to those who have treated their brethren as if each one were Jesus himself ..."- Len RichardsonThe Friendship of Jesus (1977) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resource Manager Posted April 30, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2013 30 April 2013"What is this love which God’s children must reflect? A feeling, a sentiment, an emotional response? It is none of these, for no word is in any language so liable to gain a false colour, because so alien to the mind of the flesh, as love or its equivalents. Love in its New Testament sense is a continuing way of conduct towards others, a constant quality of life by which the light of goodness shines. Warm and generous it must be, or it is nothing: no priggish altruism can ape it. But when all is said, it is an act not so much of emotion as of will: and the source of that love of our neighbour as ourselves can only be in the love of the Lord our God."- L.G.SargentLove Towards the World (1940) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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