Posted: August 23rd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: books, quotes | Tags: John Calvin | No Comments »
I recently decided to re-read John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion. It’s been years since I read and studied it the first time. Calvin’s writings, at least some of them, are timeless! Here are some quotes.
For until men recognize that they owe everything to God, that they are nourished by his fatherly care, that he is the Author of their every good, that they should seek nothing beyond him–they will never yield him willing service. Nay, unless they establish their complete happiness in him, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
Nevertheless, it is one thing to feel that God as our Maker supports us by his power, governs us by his providence, nourishes us by his goodness, and attends us with all sorts of blessings–and another thing to embrace the grace of reconciliation offered to us in Christ.
All men have a vague general veneration of God.
God himself has implanted in all men a certain understanding of his divine majesty.
Posted: July 22nd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: prayer, quotes | Tags: John Piper, prayer | No Comments »
Over the past 3-4 months I been teaching on prayer on Sunday nights at Neel Road.
This is by far one of my favorite quotes about prayer!
“Very few people think that we are in a war that is greater than World War II, or than any imaginable nuclear war. Few reckon that Satan is a much worse enemy than any earthly foe, or realize that the conflict is not restricted to any one global theater, but is in every town and city in the world. Who considers that the casualties of this war do not merely lose an arm or an eye or an earthly life, but lose everything, even their own souls, and enter a hell of everlasting torment? Until we feel the force of this, we will not pray as we ought. We will not even know what prayer is…Prayer is the communication with headquarters by which the weapons of warfare are deployed according to the will of God…Prayer is the walkie-talkie of the church on the battlefield of the world in the service of the word. It is not a domestic intercom to increase the temporal comforts of the saints. It malfunctions in the hands of soldiers who have gone AWOL. It is for those on active duty.”
- John Piper
Posted: January 22nd, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: devotional, life coaching, personal development, quotes | Tags: devotional, discipleship, life coaching | No Comments »
Warren Wiersbe once wrote,
“Before God changes our circumstances, He wants to change our hearts.”
God has a purpose for every situation and circumstance that you and I face in life. Every circumstance, good or bad, presents an opportunity for us to grow.
God uses our circumstances to change our hearts.
Sometimes before God is willing to change our circumstances he gives us an opportunity to change our hearts.
