A recent article in Evangelicals Now reports on Christanophobia in the media during the recent election.Candidates for public office were pilloried for holding various views which I hold unashamedly.
1. Homosexual acts are sinful. Tim Farron was pressured to deny this. He is a member of a church which believes this as does my church which teaches what the Bible says. 1 Corinthians 6:9 - Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
2. God can answer prayer for healing in a miraculous way. God usually heals by normal medical means but he may heal miraculously.
3. I oppose all abortions except where the mother's life is in danger. 'Thou shalt not kill'. I support pressure to change the law to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks and to stop the present law allowing abortion at any time when the unborn child is deemed handicapped.
For good measure let me add two more extreme beliefs not covered by the article.
4. Jesus Christ the only way to know God as Father. John 14:6 - Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
5. Mohammed did not teach the true way to follow God. He was a false prophet.Read the Koran. It contradicts the truth of the Bible.Sadly the only place in England where one can proclaim this in public is Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park. Preach it in public elsewhere and you may be arrested as a hate preacher.I am not usually an open air preacher. I admire those who are and am prepared to do so myself.
I used to think I lived in a free country with freedom of speech. It is no longer so.
'Anyone rejecting an ideological shibboleth is vilified as racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, climate-change denier and so on.Such people aren’t being shamed over what they do but what they are. The aim is not to change their behaviour but to disbar them from the community of right-thinking people. In the interests of making a kinder, gentler, nicer world we have become tyrannical.'- MELANIE PHILLIPS, june 27 2017,the times, How we’ve turned into a shameless society
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Monday, June 26, 2017
Friday, May 12, 2017
Sura 59 The gathering, 60 The woman to be examined 61 Battle array
24 verses. God got out the unbelievers among the People of the Book from their homes. Banishment for them.
13 verses. Take not God's enemies as your friends. Abraham prayed that his father be forgiven. Examine believing women refugees. Do not send them back to unbelievers but pay their dowry.
14 verses. Jesus, son of Mary, spoke to Children of Israel saying he was apostle of God. He came to confirm the previous law and give glad tidings of an apostle to come, Ahmad (Muhammad),
13 verses. Take not God's enemies as your friends. Abraham prayed that his father be forgiven. Examine believing women refugees. Do not send them back to unbelievers but pay their dowry.
14 verses. Jesus, son of Mary, spoke to Children of Israel saying he was apostle of God. He came to confirm the previous law and give glad tidings of an apostle to come, Ahmad (Muhammad),
Saturday, April 01, 2017
Quran sura 6 Cattle
165 verses. God has power over all things. Coming judgement. Apostles sent, signs rejected. God omniscient. Irrisistible. Abraham rebuked his father Azar for idolatry. Guided Abraham. Gave him Isaac and Jacob. Guided Noah, David, Solomon, Job, Joseph, Moses and Aaron. Zachary, John, Jesus and Elijah, Ishmael, Elisha, Jonah and Lot. These were the prophets.They received the Book, Authority and Prophethood, guidance. Quran confirms what came before it. God created Jinns.They attribute children to God. Avoid sin and unblessed food. God makes some open to Islam, some not. God gives abundant cattle.Protect orphans' property.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Quran Sura 5
The table spread. 120 verses. Forbidden meats. Ablutions before prayer. Justice is next to piety. Practice charity. Muslims made covenants with Jews and Christians but both these parties broke covenant. It is blasphemy to say God is Christ, son of Mary. God told Moses to lead Israel into the land. They refused except for two men, unspecified. Israel wandered forty years. Jesus came with Gospel and to confirm the Law. Take not Jews and Christians for friends and protectors. No intoxicants, gambling, or divination.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Quran sura 4
The women.176 verses. Four wives allowed but all to be treated justly. Males inherit twice as much as daughters. On the evidence of four witnesses woman convicted of lewdness is to be confined for life. Degrees of consanguinity. Cleansing before prayer. No prartners with God. Those who fight God's cause will have great reward. Compensation for manslaughter. Set up regular prayers at stated time ( not specified). Do not take unbelievers as friends. The Jews broke the Sinai covenant with calf worship. Jews thaught they killed Christ Jesus, son of Mary, Apostle of God, but they killed him not nor crucified him. But so it was made to appear to them.`God sent Inspiration to Noah, the Messengers, Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac and Jacob. the Tribes, Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaaron and Solomon. To David we gave the Psalms. To Moses God spoke direct. Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, was no more than an apostle of God and his Word which he bestowed on Mary and a Spirit proceeding fromhim. Say not Trinity for God is one God.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Quran sura3
the family of Imram. 200 verses include stories of Imram, father of Mary and of Zachariya and John. I use the English spellings. Mary will bear a Word from Him, Christ Jesus. God creates him and Mary will give birth. He will make a clay bird miraculously come to life. He and his disciples are Muslims. People of the Book are called to worship none but God, as did Abraham who was not a Jew. Again there is reference to the covenant of the prophet but no institution or content. Muslims believe in what was revealed to the Patriarchs, Ishmael and the Tribes and in books given to Moses, Jesus and the prophets. I do not comment the other ramblings, only on that which refers to matters biblical.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Books read in July 2008 (9)
1. A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage
A fascinating social history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca Cola. How these drinks were part of history and influenced it from the ancient world through to globalisation is well told and most informative. There is a section on how these drinks would have tasted originally.
2. The World According to Nick Ferrari - Nick Ferrari
Having enjoyed him on the radio I enjoyed his book too and learned more about him. There are similarities to Richard Littlejohn who is, I think, a more gifted writer. But they both speak for the right of centre common man against the Guardianista and PC brigade.Those reviewers who think this man deficient in humour would appear to have had the humour bypass operation chartacterisic of The Left. By and large he made me laugh though sometimes we part company. He is for example anti monarchy. Sometimes he surprises you, especially his article calling on the church to preach hell fire.
3. Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Vol 2 (Christian Origins and the Question of God)
by N.T. Wright
This is a great book which puts Jesus firmly in the context of his contemporary Judaism. it is a book one will want to refer to when studying gospel passages. However it is a book written for contemporary academic theological debate. While the author is a great critic of Enlightenment rationalistic thinking I do wonder if he really sits in the supernaturalists chair. It seems the humanity of Jesus is so emphasised as to neglect aspects of his deity. The passages where he three times states he must go up to Jerusalem to die are not really exegeted nor is the question of his self consciousness as Son of God. This gives an unbalanced answer as to why Jesus died. The non-academic reader can skip some of the answers to the differing views of theologians who often do not share the author's evident submission to the Scriptures. There is much exegetical meat to chew on, many insights to learn. Wright has to be the foremost New testament biblical theologian of today. Read and benefit.
4. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge) by John O'Farrell
Having an aversion to The Guardian I was not familiar with the excellent wit of the author until I read this book. I shall now seek out his other books. It is the funniest history I have read since 1066 and All that. it is excellent. I laughed out loud, read excerpts to friends and cried at parts of his WW2 chapter. Of course the title is ironic. He is a leftie but a very funny one. I guess from his name his background is Roman Catholic but if so he does well in a very Protestant story. It is informative and witty. I only wished he had gone on past 1945. Stimulating first class read. One spelling error spotted. Should be Meccano.
5. The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
Paxo writes well and is a joy to read. This book is far ranging on who we English are, our strange national characteristics which relate to our history. "Like a pair of newly-weds in a sabotaged car, every people sets off into the future clattering behind it the tin-cans of its history." Here are many tin cans and some glimpses too of the possible road ahead. I would recommend this book to visitors to our country. The only slight draw back is that reading it ten years after it was written I sense it is slightly dated. It predates 9-11, the rise of Islamic militancy and a new huge wave of immigration, to say nothing of the effects of devolution and the rise of Scottish nationalism. All these are now having an effect on what it means to be English today. Some of his chapters are masterfull and memorable. Our animosity to the French and the sentimentality over Diana are examples.
6. The Glory of God's Will by Elisabeth Elliot
A short booklet on knowing and obeying God's will from a woman whose faith has been tried in the furnace of affliction. She waited five years to marry her first husband only to have him martyred in Equador after only two years of marriage. I have only one slight caveat. I find it hard to agree with the Gladys Aylward story that God had answered her prayer for a husband by calling someone to be her husband but he had refused the call.
7. What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language by Charles Harrington Elster
If you are a lover of words, a logophile, you will love this book. It may be a bit too American for some UK readers but it is great fun with lots of information on words and their usaage plus some interesting quizzes too. For me it is worth its price just to find out that "the dog's bollocks" was the printers' phrase for :- .
A great book too for trivia quiz setters. He could though have done better in naming the ladies Churchill's wit insulted.
8. Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
This book is to autobiography as Dylan's voice is to sweet melody. I found it a huge disappointment for it is singularly lacking in facts about his career. About the only thing I learned was the origins of his pseudonym. There is nothing about how he achieved fame, his wife or children. One does learn a little about his family background. But for the most part it is a boring ramble. I like the man's music. The cobbler should stick to his last.
9. Coast from the Air by Neil Oliver
I am surprised that other Amazon reviewers are not enthusiastic about this great book. It gives superb shots round our beautiful coast. I made me want to visit more of these places, travelling by helicopter if possible. Our coast from the air is a delight. My only quibble is I want to see more of the Hebrides.
A fascinating social history of beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea and Coca Cola. How these drinks were part of history and influenced it from the ancient world through to globalisation is well told and most informative. There is a section on how these drinks would have tasted originally.
2. The World According to Nick Ferrari - Nick Ferrari
Having enjoyed him on the radio I enjoyed his book too and learned more about him. There are similarities to Richard Littlejohn who is, I think, a more gifted writer. But they both speak for the right of centre common man against the Guardianista and PC brigade.Those reviewers who think this man deficient in humour would appear to have had the humour bypass operation chartacterisic of The Left. By and large he made me laugh though sometimes we part company. He is for example anti monarchy. Sometimes he surprises you, especially his article calling on the church to preach hell fire.
3. Jesus and the Victory of God: Christian Origins and the Question of God: Vol 2 (Christian Origins and the Question of God)
by N.T. Wright
This is a great book which puts Jesus firmly in the context of his contemporary Judaism. it is a book one will want to refer to when studying gospel passages. However it is a book written for contemporary academic theological debate. While the author is a great critic of Enlightenment rationalistic thinking I do wonder if he really sits in the supernaturalists chair. It seems the humanity of Jesus is so emphasised as to neglect aspects of his deity. The passages where he three times states he must go up to Jerusalem to die are not really exegeted nor is the question of his self consciousness as Son of God. This gives an unbalanced answer as to why Jesus died. The non-academic reader can skip some of the answers to the differing views of theologians who often do not share the author's evident submission to the Scriptures. There is much exegetical meat to chew on, many insights to learn. Wright has to be the foremost New testament biblical theologian of today. Read and benefit.
4. An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge) by John O'Farrell
Having an aversion to The Guardian I was not familiar with the excellent wit of the author until I read this book. I shall now seek out his other books. It is the funniest history I have read since 1066 and All that. it is excellent. I laughed out loud, read excerpts to friends and cried at parts of his WW2 chapter. Of course the title is ironic. He is a leftie but a very funny one. I guess from his name his background is Roman Catholic but if so he does well in a very Protestant story. It is informative and witty. I only wished he had gone on past 1945. Stimulating first class read. One spelling error spotted. Should be Meccano.
5. The English: A Portrait of a People by Jeremy Paxman
Paxo writes well and is a joy to read. This book is far ranging on who we English are, our strange national characteristics which relate to our history. "Like a pair of newly-weds in a sabotaged car, every people sets off into the future clattering behind it the tin-cans of its history." Here are many tin cans and some glimpses too of the possible road ahead. I would recommend this book to visitors to our country. The only slight draw back is that reading it ten years after it was written I sense it is slightly dated. It predates 9-11, the rise of Islamic militancy and a new huge wave of immigration, to say nothing of the effects of devolution and the rise of Scottish nationalism. All these are now having an effect on what it means to be English today. Some of his chapters are masterfull and memorable. Our animosity to the French and the sentimentality over Diana are examples.
6. The Glory of God's Will by Elisabeth Elliot
A short booklet on knowing and obeying God's will from a woman whose faith has been tried in the furnace of affliction. She waited five years to marry her first husband only to have him martyred in Equador after only two years of marriage. I have only one slight caveat. I find it hard to agree with the Gladys Aylward story that God had answered her prayer for a husband by calling someone to be her husband but he had refused the call.
7. What in the Word?: Wordplay, Word Lore, and Answers to Your Peskiest Questions about Language by Charles Harrington Elster
If you are a lover of words, a logophile, you will love this book. It may be a bit too American for some UK readers but it is great fun with lots of information on words and their usaage plus some interesting quizzes too. For me it is worth its price just to find out that "the dog's bollocks" was the printers' phrase for :- .
A great book too for trivia quiz setters. He could though have done better in naming the ladies Churchill's wit insulted.
8. Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
This book is to autobiography as Dylan's voice is to sweet melody. I found it a huge disappointment for it is singularly lacking in facts about his career. About the only thing I learned was the origins of his pseudonym. There is nothing about how he achieved fame, his wife or children. One does learn a little about his family background. But for the most part it is a boring ramble. I like the man's music. The cobbler should stick to his last.
9. Coast from the Air by Neil Oliver
I am surprised that other Amazon reviewers are not enthusiastic about this great book. It gives superb shots round our beautiful coast. I made me want to visit more of these places, travelling by helicopter if possible. Our coast from the air is a delight. My only quibble is I want to see more of the Hebrides.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Jesus -christiansquoting.org.uk
And Jesus said unto them, "And whom do you say that I am?" They replied, "You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the ontological foundation of the context of our very selfhood revealed." And Jesus replied,"What?"
Jesus came into the world to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?
Jesus has also been accused of being ineffective, in a political sense, and of having done little to right social injustices. But it is clear from the Sermon on the Mount that he was deeply concerned that his disciples should be both the "salt" and the "light" of secular society; he endorsed the authority of those Old Testament prophets who vehemently rebuked social injustice; and he consistently identified himself with the poor and weak, with social outcasts and those who were regarded as morally disreputable... It is true that he did not lead a rebellion against Rome, seek to free slaves, or introduce a social revolution. He had come for a particular purpose, which was far more important than any of these things -- and from that purpose nothing could or did deflect him.
J. N. D. Anderson, Christianity: the Witness of History
Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.... Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) Sermon 15 on the Canticle of Canticles
Jesus never married. So, should we not marry also? Jesus never used an electric appliance; never endorsed any medical procedure; never worked to save a troubled marriage. He never endorsed community volunteerism [i.e., Boy Scouts, Red Cross, United Way, etc.]; never owned a car; never went to college; never addressed juvenile delinquency or civil rights; never healed a case of alcoholism/alzheimer's/crib death/down's syndrome/drug abuse. Jesus never took time out for a hobby; never addressed professional burnout; never endorsed the ideals of saving money, of planning for retirement, of democracy. Do we REALLY want to "do as Jesus did" in these matters? His life was perfect in those areas that his life and words directly addressed. - William D Blake
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.-- Phillips Brooks
Jesus had a very bad habit of refusing to fit into anyone's paradigms.He learned a lot from the Pharisees, but He wasn't one of them. He may have hung out with the Essenes, but He was not a compulsive hand-washer. He was surely a Jew, steeped in the Torah, but He put a very different spin on it. He was charming and even witty and told wonderful stories, but He refused to be a celebrity. He dealt politely with those in authority, but did not sign on with them. Half the time He reassured people and the other half of the time He scared them. He told all the old stories but with new and disconcerting endings. He was patently a troublemaker. Which was why they had to get rid of Him. "It's been that way ever since. Everyone claims Him for their own. He's on our side. He's doing things our way. He confirms what we say. Then when we think we've sewed Him up, He's not there anymore. When we have domesticated Jesus, we may have a very interesting person on our hands, even a superstar maybe. Alas, it is not the real Jesus. He's gone somewhere else, preaching His contradictions about His Father's kingdom and stirring up His kind of trouble. A Jesus who does not disconcert and shake us up is not Jesus at all. -- the "little bishop", character, Andrew M. Greeley, _Irish Stew!_
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be a lunatic - on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make a choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at this feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to . C.S LEWIS, Mere Christianity
What will you do with Jesus,
Neutral you can not be,
One day your heart will be asking,
What will He do with me.
C. S. LEWIS
Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not. MARTIN LUTHER
He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself... His life was of no value to Him but as His Father cared for it. God would mind all that was necessary for Him, and He would mind the work His Father had given Him to do. And, my friends, this is just the one secret of a blessed life, the one thing every man comes into this world to learn. ... George Macdonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood [1866]
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.-- Robert Murray McCheyne. letter: 9 Mar 1843.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus. -Neal A. Maxwell
There is power here (in Jesus) but there is no violence. There is authority, but it is the authority of one who has taken upon himself the form of a servant.
Stephen Neill in The Lion Christian Quotation Collection, 1997
And the demon cried out in a loud voice, "What have you to do with us, O Jesus of Nazareth? I know who you are, the Holy One of God!"
And Jesus answered him, saying, "Relax. I've come to celebrate our diversity. --Richard John Neuhaus,
Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal, Les Pensees
Jesus Christ is the center of everything, and the object of everything, and he that does not know Him knows nothing of nature and nothing of himself.
BLAISE PASCAL
Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should have your eye steadily fixed upon the cross. It is the incessant round of world, world, world; the constant din of earth, earth, earth, that takes away the soul from Christ. Oh! my friends, is it not too sadly true that we can recollect anything but Christ, and forget nothing so easy as him whom we ought to remember? While memory will preserve a poisoned weed, it suffereth the Rose of Sharon to wither. -- C.H. Spurgeon
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him, - C. T. Studd
I'm sure you've noticed that Jesus came into a world that was dominated by an oppressive government, saturated with slavery, and disadvantaged economically for much of the population. Yet, He did not seek to alter man's political, social or economic status. Why not? Simply put, the externals in life will never change much. It is forever true that one "born of woman is of few days and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). Jesus told the truth when He noted, "the poor you have with you always" (John 12:8). So He came to change what was in the hearts of men and women. ~Don Truex, Did Jesus Come to Solve Poverty?
I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art:
Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend!
Nor wilt Thou with the night depart,
But stay and love me to the end.
Thy mercies never shall remove;
Thy nature and Thy name is Love.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
JESUS, the infinite I AM,
With God essentially the same,
With him enthroned above all height,
As God of God, and Light of Light,
Thou art by thy great Father known,
From all eternity his Son.
Thou only dost the Father know,
And wilt to all thy followers show,
Who cannot doubt thy gracious will
His glorious Godhead to reveal;
Reveal him now, if thou art he,
And live, eternal Life, in me.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. --George Whitefield, letter 21 May 1740
Jesus came into the world to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable
What good is having someone who can walk on water if you don't follow in his footsteps?
Jesus has also been accused of being ineffective, in a political sense, and of having done little to right social injustices. But it is clear from the Sermon on the Mount that he was deeply concerned that his disciples should be both the "salt" and the "light" of secular society; he endorsed the authority of those Old Testament prophets who vehemently rebuked social injustice; and he consistently identified himself with the poor and weak, with social outcasts and those who were regarded as morally disreputable... It is true that he did not lead a rebellion against Rome, seek to free slaves, or introduce a social revolution. He had come for a particular purpose, which was far more important than any of these things -- and from that purpose nothing could or did deflect him.
J. N. D. Anderson, Christianity: the Witness of History
Jesus is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song of gladness in the heart.... Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) Sermon 15 on the Canticle of Canticles
Jesus never married. So, should we not marry also? Jesus never used an electric appliance; never endorsed any medical procedure; never worked to save a troubled marriage. He never endorsed community volunteerism [i.e., Boy Scouts, Red Cross, United Way, etc.]; never owned a car; never went to college; never addressed juvenile delinquency or civil rights; never healed a case of alcoholism/alzheimer's/crib death/down's syndrome/drug abuse. Jesus never took time out for a hobby; never addressed professional burnout; never endorsed the ideals of saving money, of planning for retirement, of democracy. Do we REALLY want to "do as Jesus did" in these matters? His life was perfect in those areas that his life and words directly addressed. - William D Blake
Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.-- Phillips Brooks
Jesus had a very bad habit of refusing to fit into anyone's paradigms.He learned a lot from the Pharisees, but He wasn't one of them. He may have hung out with the Essenes, but He was not a compulsive hand-washer. He was surely a Jew, steeped in the Torah, but He put a very different spin on it. He was charming and even witty and told wonderful stories, but He refused to be a celebrity. He dealt politely with those in authority, but did not sign on with them. Half the time He reassured people and the other half of the time He scared them. He told all the old stories but with new and disconcerting endings. He was patently a troublemaker. Which was why they had to get rid of Him. "It's been that way ever since. Everyone claims Him for their own. He's on our side. He's doing things our way. He confirms what we say. Then when we think we've sewed Him up, He's not there anymore. When we have domesticated Jesus, we may have a very interesting person on our hands, even a superstar maybe. Alas, it is not the real Jesus. He's gone somewhere else, preaching His contradictions about His Father's kingdom and stirring up His kind of trouble. A Jesus who does not disconcert and shake us up is not Jesus at all. -- the "little bishop", character, Andrew M. Greeley, _Irish Stew!_
A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would be a lunatic - on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the devil of Hell. You must make a choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at this feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to . C.S LEWIS, Mere Christianity
What will you do with Jesus,
Neutral you can not be,
One day your heart will be asking,
What will He do with me.
C. S. LEWIS
Lord Jesus, you are my righteousness, I am your sin. You have taken upon yourself what is mine and given me what is yours. You have become what you were not so that I might become what I was not. MARTIN LUTHER
He feared nothing for Himself; and never once employed His divine power to save Himself from His human fate. Let God do that for Him if He saw fit. He did not come into the world to take care of Himself... His life was of no value to Him but as His Father cared for it. God would mind all that was necessary for Him, and He would mind the work His Father had given Him to do. And, my friends, this is just the one secret of a blessed life, the one thing every man comes into this world to learn. ... George Macdonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood [1866]
You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the midst of the desolation, a rock rising above the storm.-- Robert Murray McCheyne. letter: 9 Mar 1843.
Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus. -Neal A. Maxwell
There is power here (in Jesus) but there is no violence. There is authority, but it is the authority of one who has taken upon himself the form of a servant.
Stephen Neill in The Lion Christian Quotation Collection, 1997
And the demon cried out in a loud voice, "What have you to do with us, O Jesus of Nazareth? I know who you are, the Holy One of God!"
And Jesus answered him, saying, "Relax. I've come to celebrate our diversity. --Richard John Neuhaus,
Not only do we not know God except through Jesus Christ; We do not even know ourselves except through Jesus Christ. Blaise Pascal, Les Pensees
Jesus Christ is the center of everything, and the object of everything, and he that does not know Him knows nothing of nature and nothing of himself.
BLAISE PASCAL
Do you not find yourselves forgetful of Jesus? Some creature steals away your heart, and you are unmindful of him upon whom your affection ought to be set. Some earthly business engrosses your attention when you should have your eye steadily fixed upon the cross. It is the incessant round of world, world, world; the constant din of earth, earth, earth, that takes away the soul from Christ. Oh! my friends, is it not too sadly true that we can recollect anything but Christ, and forget nothing so easy as him whom we ought to remember? While memory will preserve a poisoned weed, it suffereth the Rose of Sharon to wither. -- C.H. Spurgeon
If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him, - C. T. Studd
I'm sure you've noticed that Jesus came into a world that was dominated by an oppressive government, saturated with slavery, and disadvantaged economically for much of the population. Yet, He did not seek to alter man's political, social or economic status. Why not? Simply put, the externals in life will never change much. It is forever true that one "born of woman is of few days and full of trouble" (Job 14:1). Jesus told the truth when He noted, "the poor you have with you always" (John 12:8). So He came to change what was in the hearts of men and women. ~Don Truex, Did Jesus Come to Solve Poverty?
I know Thee, Saviour, Who Thou art:
Jesus, the feeble sinner's friend!
Nor wilt Thou with the night depart,
But stay and love me to the end.
Thy mercies never shall remove;
Thy nature and Thy name is Love.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
JESUS, the infinite I AM,
With God essentially the same,
With him enthroned above all height,
As God of God, and Light of Light,
Thou art by thy great Father known,
From all eternity his Son.
Thou only dost the Father know,
And wilt to all thy followers show,
Who cannot doubt thy gracious will
His glorious Godhead to reveal;
Reveal him now, if thou art he,
And live, eternal Life, in me.
Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again. --George Whitefield, letter 21 May 1740
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Palm Sunday
On this day we remember Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, riding a donkey, sign of a humble king, not a proud conqueror. The fickle crowd spread their clothes on the road and hailed him with hosannas as the one who came in the name of the Lord. Five days later they bayed for his blood, preferring the release of a robber to the life of the sinless one.
But as a king he entered David's city in fulfillment of Zech. 9:9 "Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. "
I love the story of the British general, Allenby. I think it was 1917 that he led his army into Jerusalem liberating it form centuries of Islamic rule. Allenby had driven out the Turks. He was a Christian believer. Before entering the city he dismounted from his horse and led his troops on foot. Allenby said that only only man was fit to ride into Jerusalem.
I was told this beautiful story but have no written record of it. If you find one please let me know.
But as a king he entered David's city in fulfillment of Zech. 9:9 "Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. "
I love the story of the British general, Allenby. I think it was 1917 that he led his army into Jerusalem liberating it form centuries of Islamic rule. Allenby had driven out the Turks. He was a Christian believer. Before entering the city he dismounted from his horse and led his troops on foot. Allenby said that only only man was fit to ride into Jerusalem.
I was told this beautiful story but have no written record of it. If you find one please let me know.
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