Imhoff's Law
The Organization Of Any Bureaucracy May Be Likened To A Septic Tank; The Biggest Pieces Always Rise To The Top.
"Imhoff's Law"
- Honesty, Republicans, Democrats, Government, Politics, Integrity,
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
The five points of Calvinism by WJ Seaton
Author: WJ Seaton
Date: 1970
Source: The Five Points of Calvinism
Publisher: Banner of Truth Trust
City: London
1. Free will, or human ability. This taught that man, although affected by the fall, was not totally incapable of choosing spiritual good, and was able to exercise faith in God in order to receive the gospel and thus bring himself into possession of salvation.
Theology Acronyms
1. Cognitive
a.(ATGT)- Related to Knowing, thence to what is true or False
2. Deduction
a.(ATGT)- A form of reasoning that infers conclusions from premises, as e.g. in a geometrical proof.
3. Empirical-
a.(ATGT)- dependent on experience, such as sense observations
Charles Colson February 22, 1999 from Breakpoint on Black History Month
Author:
Charles Colson
Date:
February 25, 1999
Source:
Breakpoint
At
New York's Shea Stadium, two years ago, baseball commissioner Bud
Selig announced that number 42 would be retired by the major leagues
forever. It was a mark of honor for the man who had worn that
number-the man who broke baseball's color barrier in 1947:
Jackie
Robinson.
February
is Black History Month, and our kids have been hearing a lot about
Robinson's quiet dignity in the face of racial bigotry on the ball
field. But what many of them are not hearing is the source of
Robinson's ability to turn the other cheek: It was his faith in Jesus
Christ.
Robinson
was born in 1919 into a culture steeped in racism. And from early
childhood it drove Robinson mad. Historian Jackson Lears, writing in
the New Republic, says Robinson had "a reputation as a mad
brawler, always ready to smash in the teeth of any white man who
insulted him." Later, at UCLA, he gained a reputation as a thug.
THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY
THE CHICAGO STATEMENT ON BIBLICAL INERRANCY
Copyright 1978, ICBI. All rights reserved. Published with permission from the
Dallas Theological Seminary Archives, Repository of ICBI Archives
PREFACE
The authority of Scripture is a key issue for the Christian Church in this and every age. Those who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are called to show the reality of their discipleship by humbly and faithfully obeying God's written Word. To stray from Scripture in faith or conduct is disloyalty to our Master. Recognition of the total truth and trustworthiness of Holy Scripture is essential to a full grasp and adequate confession of its authority.
Copyright 1978, ICBI. All rights reserved. Published with permission from the
Dallas Theological Seminary Archives, Repository of ICBI Archives
PREFACE
The authority of Scripture is a key issue for the Christian Church in this and every age. Those who profess faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are called to show the reality of their discipleship by humbly and faithfully obeying God's written Word. To stray from Scripture in faith or conduct is disloyalty to our Master. Recognition of the total truth and trustworthiness of Holy Scripture is essential to a full grasp and adequate confession of its authority.
Robert Frost - The Brain
" ROBERT FROST"
THE BRAIN IS A WONDERFUL ORGAN,
IT STARTS THE MINUTE YOU GET UP IN THE MORNING,
AND DOES NOT STOP UNTIL YOU GET TO THE OFFICE.
"ROBERT FROST"
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
The Resonate Series Sampler IVP
An Introduction to the Resonate Series
“The last thing the world needs,” we hear every now and then from our readers, Is another commentary series.”
They may have a point. The world has a seemingly limitless supply of commentaries on the sixty-six books of the Bible, and the nuances between them are often so fine that they could strain out a gnat.
So what, we are left to wonder, does the world need?
The Resonate Series Sampler IVP
Paul Louis Metzger
“The last thing the world needs,” we hear every now and then from our readers, Is another commentary series.”
They may have a point. The world has a seemingly limitless supply of commentaries on the sixty-six books of the Bible, and the nuances between them are often so fine that they could strain out a gnat.
So what, we are left to wonder, does the world need?
The Resonate Series Sampler IVP
Paul Louis Metzger
Monday, February 17, 2014
Irish Blessing
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your fields,
and until we meet again
may God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries
James O. Fraser on Praying for Missionaries
(Beyond The Range- by Mrs. Howard Taylor pg 57 & 58
It seems to be a big responsibility to be the only preacher of the Gospel within a radius of about 150 miles. I feel my weakness very much, yet the Lord seems to delight in making His power perfect in weakness, May I ask you then to remember me specially in prayer, asking God to use me to the salvation of many precious souls.
I am feeling more and more that it is, after all, just the prayers of Gods people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not.
Paul may plant and Apollos water, but it is God who gives the increase; and this increase can be brought down from heaven by believing prayer, whether offered in China or in the homeland. We are, as it were, God’s agents – used by Him to do His work not ours. We do our part and then can only look to Him, with others, for His blessing.
If this is so, Christians at home can do as much for foreign missions as those actually on the field. I believe it will be know only on the last day how much has been accomplished in missionary work by the prayers of earnest believers at home. And this, surely, is the heart of the problem. Such work does not consist in curio tables, showing of slides, and the giving of reports. Good as this may be, they are only the fringe and not the root of the matter, solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees. What I count more than anything else is earnest, believing prayer, and I write to ask you to continue to put up much prayer for me and work here in Tengyueh.
An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity - Jonathan Edwards
An Unpublished Essay on the Trinity
http://www.ccel.org/ccel/edwards/trinity/files/trinity.html
JONATHAN EDWARDS
IT IS COMMON when speaking of the Divine happiness to say that God is infinitely happy in the enjoyment of Himself, in perfectly beholding and infinitely loving, and rejoicing in, His own essence and perfection, and accordingly it must be supposed that God perpetually and eternally has a most perfect idea of Himself, as it were an exact image and representation of Himself ever before Him and in actual view, and from hence arises a most pure and perfect act or energy in the Godhead, which is the Divine love, complacence and joy. The knowledge or view which God has of Himself must necessarily be conceived to be something distinct from His mere direct existence. There must be something that answers to our reflection. The reflection as we reflect on our own minds carries something of imperfection in it. However, if God beholds Himself so as thence to have delight and joy in Himself He must become his own object. There must be a duplicity. There is God and the idea of God, if it be proper to call a conception of that that is purely spiritual an idea.
Saturday, January 11, 2014
Jim Elliot - Kingdom
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond...
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God
Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!Jim Elliot
Wherever you are - be all there.
It's hard to steer a parked car.
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I’m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That’s willingness all right. But God doesn’t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.
Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.
Rest in this - it is His business to lead, command, impel, send, call... It is your business to obey, follow, move, respond...
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God
Live every day as if the Son of Man were at the door, and gear your thinking to the fleeting moment. Just how can it be redeemed? Walk as if the next step would carry you across the threshold of Heaven. Pray. That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus.
The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for, but we must believe that whatever it involves, it is good, acceptable and perfect.
Our young men are going into the professional fields because they don't 'feel called' to the mission field. We don't need a call; we need a kick in the pants. We must begin thinking in terms of 'going out,' and stop our weeping because 'they won't come in.' Who wants to step into an igloo? The tombs themselves are not colder than the churches. May God send us forth.
God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.
Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.
Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!Jim Elliot
Wherever you are - be all there.
It's hard to steer a parked car.
Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions, Lord, let me loose the tension of the grasping hand. Even, Father, would I lose the love of fondling. How often I have released a grasp only to retain what I prized by 'harmless' longing, the fondling touch. Rather, open my hand to received the nail of Calvary, as Christ's was opened- that I, releasing all, might be released, unleashed from all that binds me now. He thought Heaven, yea, equality with God, not a thing to be clutched at. So let me release my grasp.
Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of thing, which says, 'Well, I’m willing, if God would only give me a good swift kick and send me.' That’s willingness all right. But God doesn’t want willingness, He wants will! He wants your will put behind those desires.
Children are arrows in a quiver, and they are to be trained as missionaries and shot at the Devil.
Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
That saint who advances on his knees never retreats...
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse?
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have prayed for new words, explosive, direct, simple words. I have prayed for new miracles. Explaining old miracles will not do. If God is to be known as the God who does wonders in heaven and earth, then God must produce for this generation. Lord, fill preachers and preaching with Thy power. How long dare we go on without tears, without moral passions, hatred and love? Not long, I pray, Lord Jesus, not long.
Saturday, December 21, 2013
St Patricks Breastplate
Christ Be with Me,
Christ within me,
Christ behind me,
Christ before me,
Christ besides me
Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ in Quiet,
Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.
St Patrick,
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