This Saturday at my house we will have an 80's party filled with great/bad music and great/bad clothing. Dress up in those fantastic clothes and come hang out starting at 7:00 PM.
There will be trivia (with prizes), best dressed contest (with prizes) and kareoke. There will also be a Chik-Fil-A party tray!
Wisdom from Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards was a preacher/theologian who lived in American colonies in the early to mid 1700's. He has a sermon with this title:: "The Hearing and Keeping the Word of God Renders a Person More Blessed Than Any Other Privilege That God Ever Bestowed on Any of the Children of Men."
What a great title, I feel inspired and preached to having read the title alone. It is also what I have been harping about in my own head and from my lips for the last bit of weeks. I pray that I would be convinced of the truth of that title, that I would believe God in the beatitudes.
My prayers curiously have great fervor and vigor yet very little hope of being answered. Which leads me to a greater understanding of my weak flesh that wants me to bless me. Digression has brought me away from the point.
The foremost point of this blog entry is that hearing and keeping the word of God brings a level of severely intense satisfaction that is unmatched in any realm. I shout this prayer for me and my hearers.
What a great title, I feel inspired and preached to having read the title alone. It is also what I have been harping about in my own head and from my lips for the last bit of weeks. I pray that I would be convinced of the truth of that title, that I would believe God in the beatitudes.
My prayers curiously have great fervor and vigor yet very little hope of being answered. Which leads me to a greater understanding of my weak flesh that wants me to bless me. Digression has brought me away from the point.
The foremost point of this blog entry is that hearing and keeping the word of God brings a level of severely intense satisfaction that is unmatched in any realm. I shout this prayer for me and my hearers.
Our Greatest Need?
I have been posing this question in my mind for several days. My reading has brought me to it and the unsettling of the last blog post as well. I want to quote two books, one today and one tomorrow, that get into the depth of what I am talking about.
The first is Humility by Andrew Murray. In it he says this, "The Need. When the Old Serpent, he who had been cast out from Heaven for his pride, whose whole nature as devil was pride, spoke his words of temptation into the ear of Eve, these words carried with them the very poison of hell...poison entered into her soul and blood and life, destroying that blessed humility and dependence upon God which would have been our everlasting happiness. And instead of this, her life and the life of the race that sprang from her became corrupted to its very root with that most terrible of all sins and all curses, the poison of Satan's own pride. All the wars and bloodshed among the nations, all its selfishness and suffering, all its ambitions jealousies, broken hearts and embittered lives...have their origin in this hellish pride, either our own or, that of others, has brought us. It is from our pride that we need, above everything, to be redeemed."
We have no greater need than to be redeemed from our pride. All sin flows from this desire to provide for self. Like an idiot trying to carrying books upstairs while on crutches who falls and hurts himself are we. I can do it, I will take care of it, I can provide for myself.
The first is Humility by Andrew Murray. In it he says this, "The Need. When the Old Serpent, he who had been cast out from Heaven for his pride, whose whole nature as devil was pride, spoke his words of temptation into the ear of Eve, these words carried with them the very poison of hell...poison entered into her soul and blood and life, destroying that blessed humility and dependence upon God which would have been our everlasting happiness. And instead of this, her life and the life of the race that sprang from her became corrupted to its very root with that most terrible of all sins and all curses, the poison of Satan's own pride. All the wars and bloodshed among the nations, all its selfishness and suffering, all its ambitions jealousies, broken hearts and embittered lives...have their origin in this hellish pride, either our own or, that of others, has brought us. It is from our pride that we need, above everything, to be redeemed."
We have no greater need than to be redeemed from our pride. All sin flows from this desire to provide for self. Like an idiot trying to carrying books upstairs while on crutches who falls and hurts himself are we. I can do it, I will take care of it, I can provide for myself.
