- Emptied From Vessel to VesselMay 19, 2014
- Neck Or Nothing May 19, 2014
- Christ is never fully valued!May 19, 2014
- BOOK: The Disciplines of Life By V. Raymond Edman May 19, 2014
- “Blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me” (Luke 7:23). May 19, 2014
- Christ’s Life Began and Ended in Misunderstanding May 19, 2014
- He hath blessed, and I cannot reverse it. Num 23:20 May 19, 2014
- The thief! May 19, 2014
- Lost unregenerate men know nothing of this struggle! May 19, 2014
- God’s workmanship! May 19, 2014
- I love to trace there the footsteps of my Father! May 19, 2014
- We shall have some hard climbing in our upward journey May 19, 2014
- How Know We the Way? May 19, 2014
- Three words to ponder. May 19, 2014
- I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold!May 18, 2014
- The most despised verse in the entire Bible! May 18, 2014
- I will never leave you nor forsake you! May 18, 2014
- God weighs and measures, bounds and ordains, my sorrows! May 18, 2014
- Thy Way Was in the Sea May 18, 2014
- The Great Life May 18, 2014
- Isaiah Warning Against Worldly Counsel May 18, 2014
- Counsel Based on Human Experience May 18, 2014
- Knowing the Incomprehensible May 17, 2014
- Rick Warren on Mental Illness: ‘If My Brain Doesn’t Work and I Take a Pill, I’m Supposed to Be Ashamed?’May 17, 2014
- Audio Sermon: The Grace of God by T Austin Sparks May 17, 2014
- Articles-Devotionals-Sermon Videos-Music-Books May 17, 2014
- Sudan woman faces death for apostasy May 17, 2014
- LADY JANE GREY May 17, 2014
- J. C. Philpot – Even Your Own Relatives Think You Are Almost Insane May 16, 2014
- Speak ye to the rock; and Moses smote the rock twice. Num 20:8-11 May 16, 2014
- All One Wants May 16, 2014
- Attaining to God’s Full Thought May 16, 2014
- Pressing Forward May 15, 2014
- Bigger and Better May 15, 2014
- The Curse of Meroz May 15, 2014
- Be Content May 15, 2014
- Recall What God RemembersMay 15, 2014
- The Peculiar Sleep of the Beloved By C.H. SpurgeonMay 15, 2014
- Earth’s 10 Strangest Natural Phenomena May 15, 2014
- Till You Are Entirely His May 15, 2014
- Responsibility For What We Have May 15, 2014
- The Danger of Heart-hardening May 15, 2014
- Contentment, Not Complacency May 15, 2014
- Are You Sleeping Well? May 15, 2014
- World’s Deadliest – Mid-Air Eagle Fight May 14, 2014
- The Saint Must Walk AloneMay 14, 2014
- How To Wait May 14, 2014
- John Angell James – That one Majestic, Inconceivable, and Expressive Word May 14, 2014
- I am thy Portion and thine Inheritance. Num 18:20 (R. V.) May 14, 2014
- “Ye are not your own.” 1 Corinthians 6:19 May 14, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
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Monday, May 12, 2014
A CERTAIN NOBLEMAN
By Bible Names of God
Luke 19:12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.
The setting of this picture is remarkable. Our Lord is standing with the Jews around Him, in the shadows of a palace built by a nobleman, Archelaus, who had gone to Rome and received the kingdom from Caesar. Our Lord is the Nobleman whose face was turned toward the land beyond the skies where He has gone and from whence He will one day return. "Occupy till I come" is His message. He has entrusted to us, as His servants, the most valuable treasure in Heaven, --- time, opportunity, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, a great world in which to transact the greatest of all business! Precious privileges are ours and a solemn accounting must be given.
Lord, give us keenness of vision to see, and wisdom to utilize our opportunities in the investment of our lives for Thee. Amen.
Sunday, May 11, 2014
"How Is Failure Part of Life?" - Andy Crouch
Andy Crouch, Executive Editor at Christianity Today, talks about seeing failure as a necessary part of the creative process.
In a highly competitive professional environment, admitting failure is not typically seen as a good idea. We carefully cultivate our own success stories, possibly with very good reasons for doing so. As a result, we have lost a lot of our vocabulary for productively talking about failure.
Andy's right: to succeed creatively, you have to be able to fail creatively. Learning from mistakes, being willing to take risks, exploring uncertain possibilities—if we can't do these things, it's really tough to grow. Doing so takes humility, perseverence, and, most of all, faith.
Want to hear more? You can find these and dozens more videos over at The High Calling YouTube Channel.
TRANSCRIPT: I've come to realize that all creativity leads through failure . . . takes you through failure. And some creativity leads you to failure; you just end up in failure. So all creativity requires the willingness to fail, and I don't know any creative endeavor where you don't fail before you succeed . . . at least when you're learning. But as you go on in that field, if you are doing what you're meant to do, the demands get bigger and bigger. The levels of failure that you have to contemplate or go through to get to success get greater and greater. Paul ends up at the end of his life writing, and he says, "Almost everyone I trusted has deserted me." He writes to Timothy and says, "Please come visit me." At that moment in his life—and his life is about to fail, be cut off by the Roman Empire—he looks at most of what he's done and says it's deserted. So the calling to the creative life, to the culture making life is not a calling to more and more clearer success. It's a calling to more and more creativity, which may or may not succeed. All of which is going to put you at risk for failing, and all of which then has to be put in the hands of God.
TRANSCRIPT: I've come to realize that all creativity leads through failure . . . takes you through failure. And some creativity leads you to failure; you just end up in failure. So all creativity requires the willingness to fail, and I don't know any creative endeavor where you don't fail before you succeed . . . at least when you're learning. But as you go on in that field, if you are doing what you're meant to do, the demands get bigger and bigger. The levels of failure that you have to contemplate or go through to get to success get greater and greater. Paul ends up at the end of his life writing, and he says, "Almost everyone I trusted has deserted me." He writes to Timothy and says, "Please come visit me." At that moment in his life—and his life is about to fail, be cut off by the Roman Empire—he looks at most of what he's done and says it's deserted. So the calling to the creative life, to the culture making life is not a calling to more and more clearer success. It's a calling to more and more creativity, which may or may not succeed. All of which is going to put you at risk for failing, and all of which then has to be put in the hands of God.
Thursday, April 24, 2014
When God Laughs
By Warren Wiersbe
Read Psalm 2:1-12
Are you surprised that God laughs? "He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision" (v. 4). God has a sense of humor, but His laughter is the kind that is born of judgment. It's the laughter of derision, the laughter of irony. What is God laughing at? He's laughing at puny little kings and rulers who have united to shake their fists at His throne and tell Him they don't want Him to rule over them (vv. 2,3). God laughs at them because He knows man cannot survive without submitting to His authority. Man is made in the image of God, and if he fights against Him, he fights against himself. Man, in his rebellion, tries to make God in his own image. He thinks God can be treated with disdain and disobedience. And God laughs.
We can laugh when we read the headlines or watch TV reports. We see a world in turmoil, a world united against God, but we laugh because He is still on the throne. "Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion" (v. 6). Jesus Christ is God's King, and He is on the throne. Therefore, we can look at the nations as they are in turmoil, as they unite against God, and we can smile--in fact, we can laugh. They are fighting a losing battle. Jesus Christ is on the throne of the universe, and we who are Christians are seated with Him on that throne.
As believers, we are to be witnesses for Christ. Reaching a world that rebels against God's authority can be difficult. Be encouraged, for your efforts will not be wasted. God is in control and one day will bring all governments and earthly powers into submission. Pray that He will use your life to reach others and glorify Himself.
His Unfinished Work
By Theodore Epp
1 John 2:1-6
First John 2:1 could be translated: "These things write I unto you that ye do not commit a single act of sin." John was not dealing with habitual sin but with single acts of sin. This is a high standard, and you may wonder if it is possible for a child of God to successfully live this way. We need to realize what Christ has actually done for us.
In the light of our experience, however, this may well cause us to despair, for we realize that we do commit acts of sin. The next phrase in 1 John 2:1 says, "And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." When we do commit an act of sin and Satan would accuse us before the Father, there is no way he can reach us because we stand before God in the righteousness of Christ, "even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference" (Rom. 3:22). So Jesus has become our righteousness, and He stands in the presence of God on our behalf.
"Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us" (Rom. 8:34).
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