The King of All Kings

I could not keep myself from posting this again. It's such an inspiration to hear this.
Great is Our God

http://youtu.be/yzqTFNfeDnE

Pray for Norway

Please remember to pray for Norway.
The people need to know that God loves them during this time.
Pray that God will take this terrible tragedy and turn it to good - that the people of Norway will turn to Jesus and know His peace and His comfort during this time.

Think on This

Four Quick Points to Recall Each Day

It’s not about you

It’s all about honoring God’s name. You are requested to live such a life

EZ 20:9,13,14; Ps 106:8; I John 2:12

It’s none of your business

God to Job - Peter - the apostles - to you

when you realize and accept this fact then you can accept come what may

Heathens are going to act like heathens

People who don’t know and love Jesus should not be held to the same standard. If they do good, that’s a huge plus; if they do evil, they are following their natural inclination.

Rejoice anyway

Where is the Holy Spirit?

There is a big gap between what we read in Scripture about the Holy Spirit and how most believers and churches operate today. In many modern churches, you would be stunned by the apparent absence of the Spirit in any manifest way. And this, I believe, is the crux of the problem.

Francis Chan - Forgotten God; Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit.

What Happened to the Holy Spirit?

The benchmark of success in church services has become more about attendance than the movement of the Holy Spirit. The 'entertainment' model of church was largely adopted in the 1980s and '90s, and while it alleviated some of our boredom for a couple of hours a week, it filled our churches with self-focused consumers rather than self-sacrificing servants attuned to the Holy Spirit.

From Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit by Francis Chan

From time to time I plan to post quotes from Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From the American Dream by David Platt

Here is one now"

I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what is radical about out faith and replaced it with what is comfortable. We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually abandoning ourselves. Pg 7

For some reason my pictures on this post keep disappearing. Hope to get that worked out soon.

Quote from Victory Faith Fellowship pastor in Spokane this past Sunday.

"Why did the children want to go to Jesus? [Matthew 19:13-15]

"Children know when someone will be fun and they go to them."

Now, that's a good thought.