Dear Lord, I ask that I would apply all diligence to be Your person in this world. As I seek Your will, I don’t need to impress or manipulate people. Instead, I can choose the simplicity of quiet service, even when others don’t notice. I realize that You often accomplish Your extraordinary work in ordinary [...]
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24Jun10
People Cannot Live Without Hope
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of encouragement – People cannot live without hope. Throughout history, human beings have endured the loss of many things. People have lost their health, their finances, their reputations, their careers, even their loved ones, and yet have endured. The pages of history books are [...]
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This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. “Whoever will listen will hear the speaking Heaven. This is definitely not the hour when men take kindly to an exhortation to listen, for listening is not today [...]
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23Jun10
The Listening Heart
This is another installment in a series that has been adapted from my 11-part CD teaching series on A. W. Tozer’s spiritual classic, The Pursuit of God. In the presence of God’s greatness we find, as Tozer says, “. . . a sudden sense of loneliness or a sense of wonder in the face of [...]
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22Jun10
Being Impressed by God: A Prayer
Father God, I rejoice in the truth that You have chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and have chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things that are strong. I acknowledge that You have the power to use me in remarkable ways in spite of my inadequacies [...]
- This is part of a leadership series on the theme of humility – Israel’s pride led them to disobey God’s commands, so God invested 40 years in developing their humility and obedience. God took them into the desert to show them how vulnerable they were (and how vulnerable we are). In Deuteronomy 8, we [...]
14Jun10
Honesty in Prayer
François Fénelon, a 17th-century French priest, on prayer: “Tell God all that is in your heart, as one unloads one’s heart, its pleasures and its pains, to a dear friend. Tell Him your troubles that He may comfort you; tell Him your longings that He may purify them; tell Him your dislikes that He may [...]
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Here is a list of forty personal principles and values that I have collected and review from time to time. It is convicting for me to go through these, since they are all beyond my experience. This list may be of use to you as you seek to integrate your life in Christ with your [...]
28May10
The Paradox of the Moral Life
The paradox of the moral life consists in this: that the highest mutuality is achieved where mutual advantages are not consciously sought as the fruit of love. For love is purest where it desires no returns for itself; and it is most potent where it is purest. Complete mutuality, with its advantages to each party [...]
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Human love desires the other person, his company, his answering love, but it does not serve him. On the contrary, it continues to desire even when it seems to be serving. . . . Because spiritual love does not desire but rather serves, it loves an enemy as a brother. It originates neither in the [...]
