He Measures It ALL With His Span

This is really neat.

http://equipu.kids4truth.com/blogs/bobsblog/archive/2008/02/28/he-measures-it-all-with-his-span.aspx

Puts things in perspective!!! It was comforting during Aimee's trial, to be reminded about how big our God is!

Daily Carson 2/22/08

Here is today's quote from Carson's A Call to Spiritual Reformation (see Intro):

The critical turning point in their lives came when they believed the gospel: "you believed our testimony to you" (v.10). Beyond their conversion, however, Paul assumes that real Christians will ultimately persevere. The assumption is common in Scripture (e.g. Matt. 24:13; John 8:31; Heb 3:14; 1 John 2:18-19). Christians may stumble and fall, doubt like Thomas, and disown their Lord like Peter, but they ultimately will utter their "Amen" to Thomas's confession (John 20:28) and weep with Peter (Matt. 26:75)." (p. 45)

Daily Carson 2/21/08

Here is today's quote from Carson's A Call to Spiritual Reformation (see Intro):

If in our prayers we are to develop a mental framework analogous to Paul's, we must look for signs of grace in the lives of Christians, and give God thanks for them. … For what have we thanked God recently? Have we gone over a list of members at our local church, say, or over a list of Christian workers, and quietly thanked God for signs of grace in their lives? Do we make it a matter of growing conformity to Christ, exemplified in trust, reliability, love, and genuine spiritual stamina? (p. 44)

Daily Carson 2/20/08

Here is today's quote from Carson's A Call to Spiritual Reformation (see Intro):

But in the Western world we urgently need this advice, for many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. Pray until you pray. (p. 37)

Daily Carson 2/19/08

Here is today's quote from Carson's A Call to Spiritual Reformation (see Intro):

What [the Puritans] meant is that Christians should pray long enough and honestly enough, at a single session, to get past the feeling of formalism and unreality that attends not a little praying. We are especially prone to such feelings when we pray for only a few minutes, rushing to be done with a mere duty. To enter the spirit of prayer, we must stick to it for a while. If we "pray until we pray," eventually we come to delight in God's presence, to rest in his love, to cherish his will. Even in dark agonized praying, we somehow know we are doing business with God. In short, we discover a little of what Jude means when he exhorts his readers to "pray in the Holy Spirit" (Jude 20)--which presumably means it is treacherously possible to pray not in the Spirit. (p. 36)

Daily Carson 2/18/08

Here is today's quote from Carson's A Call to Spiritual Reformation (see Intro):

If a boy asks his father for several things, all within the father's power to give, the father may give him one of them right away, delay giving him another, decline to give him a third, set up a condition for a fourth. The child is not assured of receiving something because he has used the right incantation: that would be magic. The father may decline to give something because he knows it is not in the child's best interests. He may delay giving something else because he knows that so many requests from his young son are temporary and whimsical. He may also withhold something that he knows the child needs until the child asks for it in an appropriate way. But above all, the wise father is more interested in a relationship with his son than in merely giving him things. Giving him things constitutes part of that relationship but certainly not all of it. The father and son may enjoy simply going out for walks together. Often the son will talk with his father not to obtain something, or even to find out something, but simply because he likes to be with him. (p. 31)

Daily Carson 2/17/08

Here is today's quote from Carson's A Call to Spiritual Reformation (see Intro):

The reason we pray so little is that we do not plan to pray. Wise planning will ensure that we devote ourselves to prayer often, even if for brief periods: it is better to pray often with brevity than rarely but at length. But the worst option is simply not to pray--and that will be the controlling pattern unless we plan to pray. If we intend to change our habits, we must start here. (p. 20)