Wait For The Coming of Your Lord

O Christian . . . wait for the coming of your Lord, but let it be with your lamps trimmed and your lights burning. - Charles Spurgeon, in his sermon "A Visit to the Harvest Field"

The Greatest Tribute to Mother's Courage

I think the greatest tribute to mother's courage is that we children never sensed fear and we ourselves never had any fear. - Ruth Bell Graham

Test of Real Devotion

Seeking to please God in little matters is a test of real devotion and love. Let your aim be to please our dear Lord perfectly in little things. - Jean Grou

Great Person

The really great person is the person who makes every person feel great. - G.K. Chesterton

Christianity

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Stirring of Good

It was only when I lay there on rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirring of good. Gradually, it was disclosed to me that the line seperating good and evil passes, not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through all human hearts. So, bless you prison, for having been in my life. - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Acquiring Peace

We're only asking for trouble when we lead ourselves to believe that our internal agitation will subside once we get that place in the mountains or a quaint condo at the beach or a little larger boat or a little better job or a microwave for Christmas or a second TV or stereo upstairs or an original oil in the living room or a Shop Smith in the garage or ... or ... or .... It's not that owning any of that stuff is wrong-you know that-but when it's pursued in hopes of acquiring peace in the package, no way! - Chuck Swindoll

Compromise And Consequence

We reap precisely what we sow. If we sow a lifestyle that is more comfortable or easier or even happier-but is in direct disobedience to God's revealed Word-we ultimately reap disaster. - Chuck Swindoll

Risking Liberty

You can hardly abuse slavery, but you certainly can liberty. - Chuck Swindoll

Take Time To Be Tender

Fragile and delicate are the feelings of most who seek our help. They need to sense we are there because we care ... not just because it's our job. Truth and tact make great bedfellows. - Chuck Swindoll

Home

Home is a lot of things ... but mainly

it is the place where life makes up its mind. - Chuck Swindoll

Insight

Those without insight dwell mainly in the realm of the obvious ... the expected ... the essentials. The dimensions that interest them are length and width, not depth. Please understand, I do not mean to be critical of those who cannot go deeper... but of those who can but will not. I'm not pointing my finger at inability but rather refusal. - Chuck Swindoll

Overexpecting

The overexpecter uses words like "ought" and "should" and loves sentences that include "must" and "more." To them, "work harder" and "reach higher" are the rule rather than the exception. - Chuck Swindoll

Man's Quest

Greece said ... Be wise, know yourself

Rome said ... Be strong, discipline yourself

Judaism says ... Be holy, conform yourself

Epicureanism says ... Be resourceful, expand yourself

Psychology says ... Be confident, fulfill yourself

Materialism says ... Be acquisitive, please yourself

Pride says ... Be superior, promote yourself

Asceticism says ... Be inferior, suppress yourself

Diplomacy says ... Be reasonable, control yourself

Communism says ... Be collective, secure yourself

Humanism says ... Be capable, trust yourself

Philanthropy says ... Be unselfish, give yourself

                                                                    - Chuck Swindoll

Living It Up

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God. - Jim Elliot

Jesus' Method of Communication - Chuck Swindoll

1. Make it clear
2. Make it simple
3. Emphasize the essentials
4. Forget about impressing
5. Leave some things unsaid

Meditation

Five practical steps to follow to develop this spiritual exercise: - Chuck Swindoll

1. Emphasize different words and phrases
2. Paraphrase the verse. Make it personal
3. Compare the verse with other Scripture
4. Relate the verse to your present circumstance
5. Use prayer as a follow-up

Holding Things Loosely

The greater the possessiveness, the greater the pain. The old miser within us will never lie down quietly and die obediently to our whisper. - Chuck Swindoll

Characteristics Found In Those Who Impact Our Lives

Four characteristics usually found are: Consistency, Authenticity, Unselfishness and Tirelessness. - Chuck Swindoll

Efficiency

When will we learn that efficiency is enhanced not by what we accomplish but more often by what we relinquish? - Chuck Swindoll

How To Sympathize?

Comfort for the sorrowing cannot be regulated and systematized. Be real, Be quite, Be supportive and Be available to comfort a friend. - Chuck Swindoll

Refuse To Get Up

God wants to use you-stumbling and all-but he wont do so if you refuse to get up. - Chuck Swindoll

Unforgiving Spirit

There is no torment like the inner torment of an unforgiving spirit. It refuses to be soothed, it refuses to be healed, it refuses to forget. - Chuck Swindoll

The Sting of Pearls

When all kinds of traials crowd into your lives, my brothers, don't resent them as intruders, but welcome them as friends! Realize that they have come to test your endurance. But let the process go on until that endurance is fully developed, and you will find you have become men (and woman) of mature character .... - J. B. Phillips

Error Indeed

Old error in new dress is ever error nonetheless. - C. S. Lewis

Losing Your Way

It is an old and ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way. - Rollo May

Seeming Peace

The seeming peace a sinner has is not from the knowledge of his happiness but from the ignorance of his danger. - Thomas Watson, Puritan

Life Well Spent

It will be an unspeakable comfort to look back on a life well spent and be able to say in humble sincerity, ‘My time was not cast away . . . . It was spent in sincere labors for my God--in making my calling and election sure, in doing good to men's souls and bodies, it was entirely devoted to God. - Puritan Richard Baxter

Illicit Relationship

You get into an illicit relationship and very soon you will be justifying many other illigetimacies and it will turn desire into desrespect if not hatred. - Ravi Zacharias

Marriage

Marriage means handing over yourself, your body, your future, your keeping to the one whom you dearly love, although this person may in many ways may remain a stranger. This tremendous act of faith is something that can unlock in each lover powers of compassion, generosity, joy, passion, fidelity and hope that no one gussed was even there. That is whay the confidence of young lovers is not foolish or arrogant but an expression of basic fact of human experience, that the greatest of human gifts are set to work only when people are prepared to risk everything and first you risk it before God. - Ravi Zacharias

The Spiritual Challenge of the Evangelist

As somebody ones said there are many, many angles at which you can fall but only one angle at which you can stand straight. And civilization dominated by herself today is testing the angles. And the spiritual challenge of the evangelist is to  so breath the Spirit of God into himself, so bathe his mind with the Word of God, so be in tune with the master creator of this world, so bring his life in tune with the Lord Jesus Christ, so that he will be reflector of the Lord so that, when he is finished preaching he will know what it means when somebody said this, intense is the agony when the eye begins to see, when the ear begins to hear, when the pulse begins to pound, when the heart begins to throb, when the soul feels its flesh and when the flesh feels its chains. – Ravi Zacharias