Recent Posts Tagged With 'Discipleship'

• The reason for negligence in study

  Posted on Tuesday January 13th, 2009 at 21:30 in Bible, Christian life, Discipleship, scripture, Daily Life

  Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God’s Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intell...

• God should be our first resource!

  Posted on Thursday October 2nd, 2008 at 15:00 in Discipleship, Daily Life, difficulty

  How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven. - George Macdonald -   ...

• John Piper on Fasting

  Posted on Friday June 6th, 2008 at 23:54 in Discipleship, fasting

  Do you have a hunger for God? If we don’t feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because we have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because we have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Our soul is stuf...

• Commitment to the Cause

  Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 21:38 in Discipleship, repentance

  More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers…it was commitment that thinned the ranks. - Chuck Swindoll -...

• The Law and Justification

  Posted on Sunday March 2nd, 2008 at 23:28 in Christian life, Discipleship

  The law sends us to the gospel, that we may be justified, and the gospel sends us to the law again to enquire what is our duty, being justified. - Samuel Bolton -...

• Dying to Ourselves

  Posted on Thursday January 17th, 2008 at 14:56 in Christian life, Discipleship, Daily Life, difficulty

  If we do not die to ourselves, we cannot live to God, and he that does not live to God, is dead. - George MacDonald - Tags: Christian Living, Quotes, George MacDonald, sacrifice, discipleship...

• Be rid of our Comforts

  Posted on Sunday November 4th, 2007 at 13:13 in Christian life, Discipleship, Daily Life, satisfaction in christ, sufferings, afflictions

  Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them. - John Flav...

• A Rare Person Indeed

  Posted on Wednesday October 17th, 2007 at 03:50 in Christian life, Discipleship, character

  Modern mankind can go anywhere, do everything and be completely curious about the universe. But only a rare person now and then is curious enough to want to know God. - A.W. Tozer -...

• The Way To Be In The World

  Posted on Friday May 4th, 2007 at 06:39 in Christian life, Discipleship, character

  I ponder my experience and I recognise once more that the way for us to be in the world is to focus on the spiritual life. - Henri Nouwen - ...

• Distractions

  Posted on Tuesday December 12th, 2006 at 21:05 in Christian life, Discipleship, character, god's presence

  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. - John Donne - ...