The mathematics of sin: Sin multiplies until it is out of control. Sin
divides families, friends, and even churches. Sin adds heartache, grief,
worry, and fear. Sin subtracts your name from the Lamb’s Book of Life.
~Bob Jeffreys
Rules for today:
Do nothing that you would not like to be doing when Jesus comes.
Go to no place where you would not like to be found when Jesus comes.
Say nothing that you would not like to be saying when Jesus comes.
What I can do, plus what God can do, equals enough.
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don’t like the tune.
Too many church members have been starched and ironed, but never washed.
~Doris Hugh
RX for Christians—Prevent truth decay Read your Bible every day.
Christ died for all men—not just the ones you know and like.
Man sees the deed, but God knows the intention. ~Thomas A.Kempis
Think twice—In Noah’s day, “everybody else was doing it”, but everybody
except Noah was wrong.
Jesus never has office hours, nor does he impose a secretary between
himself and His clients. ~Merlin N.Steen
The “Finger” that points the way is part of the “Hand” that supplies
the need. ~Lilian Petry
Our goal should be God’s “well done”, not the world’s congratulations.
~Merlin N.Steen
Prism Blessings. When God puts a tear in your eye, it’s because he wants
to put a rainbow in your heart. ~Henry Shaffer
God answers our prayers by giving what we would have asked for if we
had known what he knows.
There are two kinds of leaders: those interested in the fleece and those
interested in the flock.
If you hem your morning with prayer, you are not so likely to come unravelled
as the day wears on. ~Naomi Johnson
Saying “yes” to God means saying “no” to things which offend His holiness.
~A. Morgan Derham
Man calls the light “sun”. God calls the Light “Son”.
What God forgives, man had better leave alone.
The world says, “Show me and I’ll believe.” Christ says, “Believe Me
and I’ll show you”.
Don’t expect God to change things to suit you unless you are willing
to let Him change you to suit Him.
Religion is like a bicycle, when it stops going it falls over.
The church is not a museum for finished products, it is a hospital for
the sick. ~Bruce Larson
The preaching of Noah was in the sound of his hammer.
ESP: Extra Spiritual Power
Prayer is to the soul what breath is to the body.
When we walk toward Jesus, we walk into the light. When we walk away
from Him, we walk into the dark. ~G. Dean Barret
An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain
all he cannot see.
Every Christian occupies some kind of pulpit and preaches some kind
of sermon every day.
If your light is shining for Jesus, God will put it where it can be
seen.
Strange that in prayer we often ask for a change in circumstance rather
than in our character.
The church is like a bank—what you put into it causes your interest
to grow.
Many Christians are half-full cups trying to run over.
God kneads us so we will need Him.
The Bible is the only book whose Author is always present when one reads
it.
A man can’t stumble when he’s on his knees.
If God believed in today’s permissiveness, He would have given us the
Ten Suggestions.
To the Master Gardener:
I am like a garden, Lord. A garden filled with weeds. Gently with Your
loving hands, plant in me the seeds of love and joy and kindness, of faith
and hope and trust. Pull out the choking weeds of self, and those of pride
and lust. With Your Spirit water me, till I have life anew, so all who
see this well worked ground will know it’s kept by You. ~Janet Garibaldi
The bent knee is more powerful than the sharp tongue.
When God locks a door, don’t try to get in through a window.
Satan’s greatest weapons are his half-truths.
An atheist is an unbeliever who prefers to raise his kids in a Christian
community.
To sorrow is neither weakness nor sin, but sooner or later, God expects
us to arise and carry on.
God-given talent should be given back to God.
Christians have what the world needs, but do we live so they want what
we have?
A Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who is not.
He who spends time on his knees has no trouble standing on his feet.
God lifts up none but the forsaken, makes none healthy but the sick,
gives sight to none but the blind, saves none but the sinners.
God says, “My child, that’s no pit you’re in. It’s a tunnel. Get up.
Keep walking. I’m with you. Soon you will see the light again! Just believe.
No storm will overcome you. This is My promise to you.” |