How many missions agencies will give the following advice to new missionaries? You are going to a very hard place. This people group is rebellious and difficult. In fact, they have been double-crossing God all along. They are stubborn and offensively bold and shameless in their sin. But you are being sent to speak God’s … More Advice to missionaries
In the summer of 2007, I had an accident which required surgery to reattach the hamstring tendons. Following surgery, I was confined in a brace, limited to lying flat on my back orleft side. One mysterious message came in a card: “Then lie on your left side, and place the punishment of the house of Israel … More Weird and wonderful visions of the majesty and mystery of God in Ezekiel
John Piper, in a sermon “Rivers From the Heart” Now perhaps we are ready to hear the words of Jesus as they come to us: “If any one thirst, let him come.” The invitation is universal, and yet it is conditional. There are no ethnic, intellectual, or social qualifications for drinking at Jesus’ fountain. The … More “…the hardest thing is not to satisfy their thirst but to make them feel thirsty for God.”
Job 1:6-11 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan [2] also came among them. 7 The Lord said to Satan, “From where have you come?” Satan answered the Lord and said, “From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and … More A Glimpse That Strengthens
C.H.Spurgeon, in a sermon on Ezekiel 1:15-19, “God’s Providence”: When the prophet had seen the “living creatures,” which I take it were angels, he opened his eyes again, and he saw a wonderful illustration of the divine Providence, and this exhibition was in the figure of a wheel. You must know that this is not … More Providence is like a wheel.
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