These are quotes which stood out to me, possibly for use in a sermon someday. Their presence here does not mean I agree with them, it merely shows that I might want to reference them later. The default view is five random selections. Use the tag list on the right to view all quotes relevant to that theme.
YET I WILL PRAISE
Margaret Sangster Phippen wrote that in the mid 1950s her father,
British minister W. E. Sangster, began to notice some uneasiness
in his throat and a dragging in his leg. When he went to the
doctor, he found that he had an incurable disease that caused
progressive muscular atrophy. His muscles would gradually waste
away, his voice would fail, his throat would soon become unable
to swallow.
Sangster threw himself into his work in British home missions,
figuring he could still write and he would have even more time
for prayer. "Let me stay in the struggle Lord," he pleaded. "I
don't mind if I can no longer be a general, but give me just a
regiment to lead." He wrote articles and books, and helped
organize prayer cells throughout England. "I'm only in the
kindergarten of suffering," he told people who pitied him.
Gradually Sangster's legs became useless. His voice went
completely. But he could still hold a pen, shakily. On Easter
morning, just a few weeks before he died, he wrote a letter to
his daughter. In it, he said, "It is terrible to wake up on
Easter morning and have no voice to shout, 'He is risen!'--but it
would be still more terrible to have a voice and not want to
shout."
CITATION: Vernon Grounds, Denver, Colorado. Leadership, Vol. 8, no.
KEYWORDS: Afflictions; Adversity; Perception and reality; Optimism;
Easter; Resurrection; Ministry; Health; Perseverance; Praise;
Tenacity; Zeal; Eternal Perspective; Perspective
SCRIPTURE: Psalms 63:4; Habakkuk 3:17-18; 2 Corinthians 4:16;
1 Peter 1:6-7
id: 1190 | source: Anonymous | tags: Call To Worship, Servanthood, Service, Suffering, Worship
The present tax code is about 10 times longer than the Bible, a lot more complicated, and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news.
Few would fault the clarity of the Orthodox response to the September marriage of Denis Gogolyev and Mikhail Morozev in the Vladimir Icon of the Mother of God Chapel in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
The bishops defrocked the priest, bulldozed the church and burned the wreckage.
"Father Vladimir Enert, who married the gay couple, committed a sin in doing so," a church spokesman told the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. "He desecrated the place. We therefore needed to destroy the chapel."
They call it the Orthodox Church for a reason.
id: 1809 | source: Terry Mattingly: 11/12/2003: Episcopal Actions, Orthodox Reactions | tags: Doctrine, Homosexuality
When Senator Howard Baker was a candidate in the 1980 presidential election, he ran across strong criticism of his support for Jimmy Carter's return of the Panama Canal to Panama from a Republican woman in Vermont. "Well, madam," replied the senator with sweet reasonableness, "I must have cast thousands of votes during my time in the Senate. You probably agree with almost all of them. Why focus on the one issue where we disagree?"
"Pontius Pilate probably made lots of good decisions too," responded the lady. "But we only remember one."
http://www.nationalreview.com/issue/jos200403021503.asp