12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. 14And above all these put on love, which binds everything [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Snippets’
October 6, 2009
Snippets: The Value of Community
“The reality of spiritual blindness has important implications for the Christian community. The Hebrews passage [3:13] clearly teaches that personal insight is the product of community. I need you in order to really see and know myself. Otherwise, I will listen to my own arguments, believe my own lies, and buy into my own delusions. [...]
June 8, 2009
Snippets: Portrait of a Disciple
“The beatitudes paint a comprehensive portrait of a Christian disciple. We see him first alone on his knees before God, acknowledging his spiritual poverty and mourning over it. This makes him meek or gentle in all his relationships, since honesty compels him to allow others to think of him what before God he confesses himself [...]
April 15, 2009
Snippets: Taste and See
“There is a difference between believing that God is holy and gracious, and having a new sense on the heart of the loveliness and beauty of that holiness and grace. The difference between believing that God is gracious and tasting that God is gracious is as different as having a rational belief that honey is [...]
January 30, 2009
Snippets: Prayer
“The soul learns to pray by praying; for prayer is communion with a transcendent and immanent God who on the ground of his nature and attributes calls forth all the powers of the redeemed soul in acts of total adoration and dedication.”
–Arthur Bennett, in the preface to The Valley of Vision
December 18, 2008
Snippets: But God…
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience—among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires [...]
November 26, 2008
Snippets: True Bounty
“Thou Great and Only Potentate,
Thou has made summer and winter, day and night; each of these revolutions serves our welfare and is full of Thy care and kindness.
Thy bounty is seen in the relations that train us, the laws that defend us, the homes that shelter us, the food that builds us, the raiment that [...]
November 19, 2008
Snippets: Expectancy
“What are you asking God to do that only He can do so that, when He does it, only He gets the glory for it?”
–Dr. Art Azurdia, in a sermon entitled Living in the Passion of Expectancy from John 14:12-14 preached at Grace & Truth Bible Church on October 19, 2008
November 7, 2008
Snippets: Little Things
“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.”
–Harriet Beecher Stowe
October 6, 2008
Snippets: Training Children
“My kids have a rough recollection of my Christian propoganda but reproduce my attitudes with a cloned precision.”
–Andree Seu, in her collection of essays entitled Normal Kingdom Business
