TV, Computer, Sports, Facebook, etc.

"Look up TV, computer, sports radio, Facebook, and Twitter in a concordance. No place in the Bible commands us to participate in them. But plenty of places command us to be pure and a good manager of the life—time, abilities and money and opportunities—God has entrusted to you. Don’t squander your time. C. T. Studd said, “Only one life, ‘twill soon be past, only what’s done for Christ will last.”

~ Randy Alcorn

Implications of Faith

"It is not until a man finds his faith opposed and attacked that he really begins to think about the implications of that faith. It is not until the church is confronted with some dangerous heresy that she begins to realize the riches and wonder of orthodoxy. It is characteristic of Christianity that it has inexhaustible riches, and that it can always produce new riches to meet any situation." ~ William Barclay

Prosperity...

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is ‘finding his place in it,’ while really it is finding its place in him.” ~ C.S. Lewis

Truth

"Where truth is, there is God." ~ Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

Don't Give Up!

"Don't give up because the pain is intense right now. Get on with it, and before long you will find that you have a new vision and a new purpose." ~ Stuart Singer

Prayer Life

‎''No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - no man is greater than his prayer life.'' ~ Leonard Ravenhill

You Can Be Great

‎"Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Can't Satisfy

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." ~ C. S. Lewis

Question...Answer

"When we have arrived at the question, the answer is already near." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing...

Nothing. You've done.
Nothing. Others have done to you.
Nothing. Can seperate you from His love.

~ Unknown author

Changes

Many times we are content with sitting on the sidelines, always hearing about other's lives being changed in huge ways and God being so important in their life. We go to church and hear people talk about what God has been doing in their life. We go to events and conferences that we hope will microwave our Christian maturity to well done. We read books on how other's lives were changed. And that is good enough for us, but deep down inside, we wish we could have that happen in our own life. So we make promises to try harder. We recommit our lives to Jesus. We might begin having devotions more often. But, after a while, the desire dies off and the excitement has turned into duty and we give up. Obedience makes the difference in a life that is sold out for God. It is seeing what God does with our attitude of following what He has in the Bible that brings about change in our hearts and a Christian walk that is on fire.

Zach Conrad

A New Year

2011

"A new year – a book of blank pages waiting to be filled. It is easy to fall prey to doubts and questions about unknown days before me. But maybe God’s will for my life is far greater than knowing what path my life will take, what career choice I will make or what job change will occur. Maybe God’s will is simply for me to serve Him and love Him and share His love with others. So simple, yet so complete. There is no need for lofty resolutions, no need for fear – I will begin my days with prayer; I will listen, and God and I will walk together. He will help me through the rest, one day at a time."

~ Author Unknown

The Spirit of Christmas

"The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christ is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world." ~ Stuart Briscoe

Yesterday, Tomorrow...

‎"I do not advise that we end the year on a somber note. The march, not the dirge, has ever been the music of Christianity. If we are good students in the school of life, there is much that the years have to teach us. But the Christian is more than a student, more than a philosopher. He is a believer, and the object of his faith makes the difference, the mighty difference. Of all persons the Christian should be best prepared for whatever the New Year brings. He has dealt with life at its source. In Christ he has disposed of a thousand enemies that other men must face alone and unprepared. He can face his tomorrow cheerful and unafraid because yesterday he turned his feet into the ways of peace and today he lives in God. The man who has made God his dwelling place will always have a safe habitation." ~ A.W. Tozer, The Warfare of the Spirit