February 2012
5 posts
I am the rich young ruler
If Jesus gave us the same command - to give everything we have to the poor - most of us would quickly come up with a long list of reasons why we shouldn’t. Not everyone is called to sell all their possessions, we would say. This man may have been told to get rid of everything he had, but his calling is not our calling. We have to provide for our families and take care of our own basic...
“Each of the ten commandments require us to love our neighbour. When God says,...”
– Phil Ryken, ‘Loving The Way Jesus Loves’
Power
“The more the Holy Spirit works, the more Christians will be used in battle, and the more they are used, the more there will be personal cost and tiredness. It is quite the opposite of what we might first think. People often cry out for the work of the Holy Spirit and yet forget that when the Holy Spirit works, there is always tremendous cost to the people of God - weariness and tears and...
A leader who has suffered is a leader you can...
In 1940, any political leader might have tried to rally Britain with brave words, although his heart was full of despair. But only a man who had known and faced despair within himself could carry conviction at such a moment. Only a man who knew what it was to discern a gleam of hope in a hopeless situation, whose courage was beyond reason, and whose aggressive spirit burned at it fiercest when he...
“I like a man who grins when he fights”
– Winston Churchill 