“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.”   Marcus Garvey

A BIG, BIG HEART

“Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.”   Thomas Aquinas

A BIG, BIG HEART

Enormous Truths Depend on a BIGGER God

“Our walk by faith, if it is true biblical faith, will get us in trouble.”   A.W. Tozer

A BIG, BIG HEART

Enormous Truths Depend on a BIGGER God

Life on the Tip

“A businessman well known for his ruthlessness once announced to writer Mark Twain, ‘Before I die, I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the 10 Commandments aloud at the top.’  ‘I have a better idea,’ replied Twain. ‘You could stay in Boston and keep them.’”

Loving God is NOT not Obeying Him

“Even as mature Christians, we need to remind ourselves continually of the basis of our acceptance—it is entirely because of what Christ has done for us. Thus, faith in Christ is not a one-time event; we must live by faith each day.”  Derek Thomas

Loving God is NOT not Obeying Him

All Christ… ALL the Time… REALLY!

“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”   Winston Churchill

Loving God is NOT not Obeying Him

All Christ… ALL the Time… REALLY!

Our VICTORY in 1 Note… He is FOR Us

“So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” 

Staying the Course

“There is nothing in the world that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life… ‘He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.’”   Victor Frankl Man’s Search for Meaning

Staying the Course

Meaning Comes in Christ

“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer.”   E.M.Bounds

Staying the Course

Meaning Comes in Christ

Prayer with ALL the HELP We Need

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”   John Bunyon

Staying the Course

Meaning Comes in Christ

Prayer with ALL the HELP We Need

“The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent, that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands.”   Martin Luther

Spirit Power & Freedom

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it—I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”   Frederick Buechner, The Magnificent Defeat

Spirit Power & Freedom

Ask… I know it’s scary

“Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.”   Thomas Merton

Spirit Power & Freedom

Ask… I know it’s scary

Family Love

Romans: Considering a Masterpiece - Romans 7:1-25

Mark 1:40-45

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.”  John Diefenbaker

Free to Be ALL That You Are

“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.”   John Wesley

Free to Be ALL That You Are

Seeing God as More Lovely

“I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, 18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe”

“If we don’t apply Christianity to all aspects of our life, our religion is at best ceremonial and at worst theoretical.”  

Free to Be ALL That You Are

Seeing God as More Lovely

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”   Mark Twain

NO WAY!  Putting away the practice of sinning

“...to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”   Ephesians 4:22-24

NO WAY!  Putting away the practice of sinning

MADE new… Living NEW   (Two Brothers)

Jeff Lee with RUF at FAU

Ephesians 1:15-23

“We lost it all.  He gave it all.  We get it all.”   Randy Pope

The starting point is ZERO

“A solidarity of sin and death, leading to a solidarity of righteousness found in Christ alone.”   F.F. Bruce

“A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.”   Thomas A Kempis

The starting point is ZERO

Don’t Lose Sight of the GIVER, even though the GIFT is SO Great