Devotion
I Say Lord
By Rev. David J. Griffiths (Chaplain, Baptist Social Services, Victoria, Australia) Most of us know someone who is to us our "conscience about prayer." These people, once called "pietists," seem to have no problem about prayer. On their several schedules they go to work and pray with ease and enthusiasm. They can do us good. […]
Prayer: Shopping Lists?
From: Richard Kerr Subject: Re: Why prayer goes unanswered. Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 David Brindley wrote: Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four". – Ivan Turgenev. Turgenev is asserting that all prayer is ultimately selfish, that […]
Sincerity
When Madame Tussaud’s Waxworks Exhibition at Baker Street, London, was burned down, all the kings and queens and famous people melted and ran. They melted because they were made of wax. They were not real people but they looked remarkably lifelike. If you have ever visited the exhibition at its new home in Marylebone Road, […]
Encouraging Others
I read of a man involved in a terrible accident. When they freed his mangled body, there was so little life left that he was almost given up for dead. But when the surgeons had finished their work there remained only a wreck of a man. Both legs were gone; the left arm was missing […]
Attitude Is Everything
By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, “If I were any better, I would be twins!” He was a unique manager because he […]
Prayer
Be still, and know that I am God! Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD! For God alone my soul waits in silence, for my hope is from him… He was praying in a certain place, and after he had finished, one of his disciples said […]
Sectarianism And Grace
Recently posts from what may loosely be called ‘Christian sectarian’ sources have appeared in increasing numbers on aus.religion. On behalf of all Christians I apologize to the non-Christians and devotees of other religions here for the confusion and frustration these cause. When aus.religion.christian gets up and running you can leave these people to us ‘mainline’ […]
Guidance
The LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs… Isaiah 58:11. I bless the LORD who gives me counsel. Psalm 16:7. He leads me in right paths for his name’s sake. Psalm 23:3. I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. […]
Gratefulness
Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus’ feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, ‘Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return […]
Loving God
God is love, and whoever lives in love lives in union with God and God lives in union with him. We are ruled by the love of Christ, now that we recognize that one man died for everyone, which means that all share in his death. He died for all, so that those who live […]
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