“For those men and women to be discontented and murmur whom God has raised from mean and low estates and positions. “If God by his providence does raise you, you are still as greedy of more as you were before, and as much discontented as you were before. … If you have taken a poor [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 26, 2009
Broken & Built Up
“The gospel of Christ’s painful death on our behalf has a way of breaking our pride and our sense of rightful demands and our frustration at not getting our way. It works lowliness into our souls. Then we treat each other with meekness flowing out of that lowliness. The battle is with our own proud, [...]
August 20, 2009
The best obedience of my hands
Dares not appear before Thy throne
But faith can answer Thy demands
By pleading what my Lord has done
No more, my God
No more, my God
No more, my God
I boast no more.
August 10, 2009
…another step.
Originally uploaded by Hanna L.
This weekend was another step into the adventure of the future.
It’s standing on the cusp of knowing that everything is on the verge of changing, whether you want it to or not that makes me antsy.
I’m working on rejoicing in the process of things and not just the END of [...]
August 10, 2009
Not a Cheap Grace
Two days ago, this was posted on: of first importance:
“Cheap grace is the enemy of the church. It means forgiveness of sins proclaimed as a general truth . . . an intellectual assent to that idea is held to be sufficient to secure remission of sins. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without repentance. [...]
