Discipleship Is Making Disciples Who Make Disciples
To be a disciple is to be called to make new disciples.
The Great Commission Is Normal for Every Disciple
The [great] commission is not fundamentally about mission out there somewhere else in another country. It’s a commission that makes disciple-making the normal agenda and priority of every church and every Christian disciple.
original emphasis, Colin Marshall and Tony Payne, The Trellis and the Vine (Kingsford NSW Australia: Matthias Media, 2009), 13.
Arise, O God, and Shine
1. Arise, O God, and shine
In all Thy saving might,
And prosper each design
To spread Thy glorious light;
Let healing streams of mercy flow
That all the earth Thy truth may know.
2. Bring distant nations near
To sing Thy glorious praise;
Let every people hear
And learn Thy holy ways.
Reign, mighty God, assert Thy cause
And govern by Thy righteous laws.
3. Put forth Thy glorious power
That Gentiles all may see
And earth present her store
In converts born to Thee.
God, our own God, His Church will bless
And fill the world with righteousness.
4. To God, the only wise,
The one immortal king,
Let hallelujahs rise
From every living thing;
Let all that breathe, on every coast
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Before Jehovah’s Aweful Throne
The Greatness of God’s Mercy
God’s mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, than diminish His great mercy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @CHSpurgeon
Why God Calls Us To Serve Him
God calls us to serve Him, not because He needs us, but because we need Him.
Jerry Bridges, Transforming Grace (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 1991), 50.
The Sculpture Which Is Your Life
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
HT: Challies.com
Christ Is All in All
You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
HT: @SermonIndex
Suffering Is Part of God’s Will
Suffering is the will of God. It is his chief instrument for fashioning His creatures according to His own plan. While by our work we ought to be seeking to make a bit of the world such as He would have it to be, by our suffering He is seeking to make such as He would have us to be. He blocks up our pathway by it on this side and on that, in order that we may be kept in the path which He has appointed. He prunes our desires and ambitions; He humbles and makes us meek and acquiescent. By our work we help to make a well-ordered world, but by our suffering He makes a sanctified man; and in His eyes this is by far the greater triumph.
James Stalker, The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966), 153.
