Favourite Quotations, Part 4 (Jim Elliot)

"  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." 

- http://www.ccminternational.org/English/who_said_that/jim%20elliot.htm

Favourite Quotations, Part 3 (Jim Elliot)

"He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose."                                
- Jim Elliot

Favourite Quotations, Part 2 (William Carey)

"Expect great things from God attempt great things for God."
                                                          
- William Carey 

Favourite Quotations, Part 1 (James 1:27)

"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world."                                                                    
- God, The bible, James 1:27 (ESV)

Why don’t they discipline that child?

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There are more posts that Noel Piper has done with the main subject being on Autism. If you would like to comment on this specific post please go to her blog using this link http://noelpiper.com/2010/04/01/why-dont-they-discipline-that-child/ .

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Why don’t they discipline that child?

I was a visitor in a circle of mothers who have children on the autism spectrum.”We’ve been kicked out of every place anyone takes their children. The public library banned us,”  one of them said. All the others nodded with full empathy because they’re living the same story.
I thought of the times there’s a child screaming in a store. The disapproving faces around them all wear an expression you could spell with the alphabet: “Why doesn’t she control her child?”
I wonder. Maybe it is an undisciplined child. Or maybe it’s a parent who’s ignored the child’s needs and has postponed lunch time or nap time way too long. Or maybe it’s a child with autism.
I expect that, unless autism touches our lives somehow, most of us don’t know much about what it is or how it affects a family. And yet we need to know more, or how can we be the body and hands of Christ to a family affected by autism?
I found this video from Joni and Friends very helpful.

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What is worship? / ¿Qué es la adoración?

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God,
to feed the mind with the truth of God,
to purge the imagination by the beauty of God,
to open the heart to the love of God,
to devote the will to the purpose of God.

-- William Temple


Adorar es avivar la conciencia de la santidad de Dios,
para alimentar la mente con la verdad de Dios,
para purgar la imaginación por la belleza de Dios,
para abrir el corazón al amor de Dios,
dedicar la voluntad de la voluntad de Dios.

- William Temple

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The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy by William Cowper

The Heart Healed and Changed by Mercy

by William Cowper

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Sin enslav'd me many years,      And led me bound and blind; Till at length a thousand fears      Came swarming o'er my mind. Where, I said in deep distress, Will these sinful pleasures end? How shall I secure my peace, And make the LORD my friend? Friends and ministers said much      The gospel to enforce; But my blindness still was such,      I chose a legal course: Much I fasted, watch'd and strove, Scarce would show my face abroad, Fear'd, almost, to speak or move, A stranger still to GOD. Thus afraid to trust his grace,      Long time did I rebel; Till, despairing of my case,      Down at his feet I fell: Then my stubborn heart he broke, And subdu'd me to his sway; By a simple word he spoke, "Thy sins are done away."

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Index to the Poems of William Cowper

Nick Vujicic's testimony

Nick Vujicic: Life Without Limbs - CBN.com



Nick Vujicic is a giant of a man




Further Disibility Ministry Links:

Nick Vujicic: When Healing Doesn't Come - CBN.com



Disability Ministry Video

Tarry Home: Suffering, what is my/our response to alleviate suffering in the world?

Tarry Home: Suffering, what is my/our response to alleviate suffering in the world?

My brother is getting baptised! My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness 2 and Jonathan's new blog called 'God's Grace is Profound'

For 'My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness 2' see http://tarryhome.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-heart-is-filled-with-thankfulness-2.html by Tarry home.

To see Jonathan's new blog home page called 'God's Grace is Profound' go to http://profound-grace.blogspot.com/. On his blog you can watch a video of him reading his testimony and then being baptised or simply read his testimony on the blog or otherwise go to his home page and then you can have the option of reading his testimony and listening to the video at the same time.

If you are more interested you might also want to read or listen to a few sermons from the suggestions that he has given under the links section of his blog. In the links section you are able to find some really great sermons that are  free (pretty cool hey?) to download of the internet.

I hope anyone who reads this post will take the time to enjoy listening to the way Jonathan has received from Jesus the wonderful grace of salvation given as a gift. As he would say surely "God's grace is profound".

Psalm 139

I just wanted to share one of my favourite section of scriptures with anyone who wants to read this.

Psalm 139 (New International Version)

Psalm 139

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

 ¹ O LORD, you have searched me
       and you know me.  ² You know when I sit and when I rise;
       you perceive my thoughts from afar.
 ³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
       you are familiar with all my ways.
 ⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
       you know it completely, O LORD.
 ⁵ You hem me in—behind and before;
       you have laid your hand upon me.
 ⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
       too lofty for me to attain.
 ⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
       Where can I flee from your presence?
 ⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
       if I make my bed in the depths, ^[a] you are there.
 ⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
       if I settle on the far side of the sea,
 ¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
       your right hand will hold me fast.
 ¹¹ If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
       and the light become night around me,"
 ¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
       the night will shine like the day,
       for darkness is as light to you.
 ¹³ For you created my inmost being;
       you knit me together in my mother's womb.
 ¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
       your works are wonderful,
       I know that full well.
 ¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
       when I was made in the secret place.
       When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
 ¹⁶ your eyes saw my unformed body.
       All the days ordained for me
       were written in your book
       before one of them came to be.
 ¹⁷ How precious to ^[b] me are your thoughts, O God!
       How vast is the sum of them!
 ¹⁸ Were I to count them,
       they would outnumber the grains of sand.
       When I awake,
       I am still with you.
 ¹⁹ If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
       Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
 ²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
       your adversaries misuse your name.
 ²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
       and abhor those who rise up against you?
 ²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
       I count them my enemies.
 ²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
       test me and know my anxious thoughts.
 ²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
       and lead me in the way everlasting.

Footnotes:

1. Psalm 139:8 Hebrew Sheol
2. Psalm 139:17 Or concerning

New International Version (NIV)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+139&version=NIV

Part 2: My brother is getting baptised! My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness

See some photos and a brief summary of how the event went!
http://tarryhome.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-heart-is-filled-with-thankfulness-2.html

My brother is getting baptised!

My Heart is Filled with Thankfulness

http://tarryhome.blogspot.com/2010/02/my-heart-is-filled-with-thankfulness.html

Rescuing Unborn Children: Required and Right :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library

Rescuing Unborn Children: Required and Right :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library

Kingdom Compassion and the Killing of Children :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library

Kingdom Compassion and the Killing of Children :: Desiring God Christian Resource Library

1 Peter 5:7

Throw all your cares on Him, for He will take care of you.

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1:8

1:8 (Joshua 1:8-9)

"This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage: do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD you God is with you wherever you go."

1:8 (Revelation 1:8)

"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End," says the Lord, "who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty."

Ephesians 2:8-10

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:8-10

You May Not Like The Truth, But Here It Is

"... if we obeyed the command against fornication, 90% of abortion would cease."

Feet That Will Never Walk, How Can We Look Away?

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My 2009 Christmas thoughts; The gift

Luke 2:8-11

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Luke 2:14

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"He who did not

spare His own Son,

but

delivered Him

up for us all..."

Do you think

anything

whatsoever could beat

the price

that this gift cost?

Luke 2:14

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( Meaning of Gloria in Excelsis Deo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_in_Excelsis_Deo )

The Gift

by Me

History waited,
Prophesies foretold,
But God's People rebelled,
Time did not stand still
But as we remember
History poised still for this time,
The time of the anointed Messiah king.

But then the noise of the tender wail of a child
The innkeeper friend crouched on the level above
"What? The voice of a child?" he said as he saw
Jesus laid in the barrel for feeding below
'What of the Jewish king?' he wistfully wondered

Meanwhile in the nightly shadows a shepherd snored softly
His friends nearby, A sheep as his pillow, The sky for his coat.
Then the sky burst forth in glorious light
The shepherd jumped up in much of a fright
'An angel, a messenger from God his king !?!
Surely not come to see me in all this might?'
The angel cried out,
shaking with wonder at the message he brought,
"Don't stand terrified, it's joy I bring,
great joy you should sing"
But then the refrain,
a million bright messenger's,
shaking with wonder at the message they brought,
praising God and saying
"Gloria, Gloria in Excelsis Deo, to God be the glory
both now and forever!".
Shaking with wonder at the message he heard
the shepherd ran full speed with the wind in his face
to look for the Messiah in meager cloth
who had bothered to tell the stinking shepherds that
the time of the anointed Messiah king had come.

^31-39So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? If God didn't hesitate to put everything on the line for us, embracing our condition and exposing himself to the worst by sending his own Son, is there anything else he wouldn't gladly and freely do for us? And who would dare tangle with God by messing with one of God's chosen? Who would dare even to point a finger? The One who died for us—who was raised to life for us!—is in the presence of God at this very moment sticking up for us. Do you think anyone is going to be able to drive a wedge between us and Christ's love for us? There is no way! Not trouble, not hard times, not hatred, not hunger, not homelessness, not bullying threats, not backstabbing, not even the worst sins listed in Scripture:

They kill us in cold blood because they hate you.
We're sitting ducks; they pick us off one by one.
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us. I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow, high or low, thinkable or unthinkable—absolutely nothing can get between us and God's love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. (Romans 8:32, The Message)

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A32&version=MSG&src=embed

Romans 8:32

³² He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?

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You may want to use this link to read the verse in the NKJV in it's chapter context: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8&version=NKJV

Romans 8 - Matthew Henry's Concise

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Their final triumph, through Christ.

All things whatever, in heaven and earth, are not so great a display of God's free love, as the gift of his coequal Son to be the atonement on the cross for the sin of man; and all the rest follows upon union with him, and interest in him. All things, all which can be the causes or means of any real good to the faithful Christian. He that has prepared a crown and a kingdom for us, will give us what we need in the way to it. Men may justify themselves, though the accusations are in

full force against them; but if God justifies, that answers all. By Christ we are thus secured. By the merit of his death he paid our debt. Yea, rather that is risen again. This is convincing evidence that Divine justice was satisfied. We have such a Friend at the right hand of God; all power is given to him. He is there, making intercession. Believer! does your soul say within you, Oh that he were mine! and oh that I were his; that I could please him and live to him! Then do not toss your

spirit and perplex your thoughts in fruitless, endless doubtings, but as you are convinced of ungodliness, believe on Him who justifies the ungodly. You are condemned, yet Christ is dead and risen. Flee to Him as such. God having manifested his love in giving his own Son for us, can we think that any thing should turn aside or do away that love? Troubles neither cause nor show any abatement of his love. Whatever believers may be separated from, enough remains. None can take Christ from the

believer: none can take the believer from Him; and that is enough. All other hazards signify nothing. Alas, poor sinners! though you abound with the possessions of this world, what vain things are they! Can you say of any of them, Who shall separate us? You may be removed from pleasant dwellings, and friends, and estates. You may even live to see and seek your parting. At last you must part, for you must die. Then farewell, all this world accounts most valuable. And what hast thou left, poor

soul, who hast not Christ, but that which thou wouldest gladly part with, and canst not; the condemning guilt of all thy sins! But the soul that is in Christ, when other things are pulled away, cleaves to Christ, and these separations pain him not. Yea, when death comes, that breaks all other unions, even that of the soul and body, it carries the believer's soul into the nearest union with its beloved Lord Jesus, and the full enjoyment of him for ever.

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Other helpful tools for Romans chapter 8:

Heartlight's search God's Word

Coffman Commentaries on the Old and New Testament - http://www.searchgodsword.org/com/bcc/view.cgi?book=ro&chapter=008

Christ notes

Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary (see below text) - http://www.christnotes.org/commentary.php?com=mhc&b=45&c=8

Classic Bible Commentaries
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