You Have to Be Different to Make a Difference
In the church today the tendency is to look at the world all the time and to see the tragedy of the world. That is perfectly right, of course; the church is to be evangelistic. But the question is, how is the church to be evangelistic? And I contend that what the New Testament itself tells us, and what the history of the church tells us, is that the church is most successful evangelistically when she herself is as she ought to be. Why are the masses of the people outside the church? I do not hesitate to say that the reason is that they fail to see in us anything that attracts them, anything that creates within them a desire to receive what we have, or anything that rebukes them and condemns them for their way of living. Not that we should necessarily put that into words, but it should be seen.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, The Possibilities of the Christian Life
Drawn by Something Far Better
True weanedness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
Obey in the First Thing
If you obey God in the first thing He shows you, then He instantly opens up the next truth to you.
Healthy Church
Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.
Indeed, the Strangest Flower of All
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
HT: @cslchsnmore
What Does Prayer Really Change?
I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It’s doesn’t change God. It changes me.
True Love
The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God’s love for us does not.
HT: @cslewisdaily
Come, My Soul, Your Plea Prepare