A random but well-appreciated text I received today:
Bro, "do not love the world or anything in the world" 1 john 2:15
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But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 3:13

No shame.

I wouldn't want Jesus to be ashamed of me when he comes in all his glory. Please help me not to be ashamed of him or his words until he returns.

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For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when he comes in his glory.

Luke 9:26

I soil, God shines.

A reminder that, as I prepare my talk, all I am responsible for is the environment under which faith and hope can flourish.
Prayers that God would draw people unto Himself is, then, a must.
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So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

1 Corinthians 3:7

Favourite quotes:

I don't want prayer to be something that is tacked-on today or something that we're just going to do when we have some spare time. If we want God to be working today, we want to be praying. So we are going to make time to pray — I want everyone to just drop everything they're doing at 11am and pray.

Sam Mak

Favourite quotes:

In the beginning there was nothing - which exploded.

Big Bang Theory

"Preaching is not primarily to impart information. It is, rather, to produce an impression."

It is seldom that any of our bad habits or flaws disappear by a mere nature process of natural extinction. At least it is very seldom it is done by the instrumentality of reasoning or by the force of mental determination. What can not be destroyed however may be dispossessed. One case may be made to give away to another and to lose its power entirely has the reigning affect of the mind. Here’s an example: A youth may cease to idolize sensual pleasure but it is because of the idol of wealth. The desire to make money has gotten ascendancy, so he becomes disciplined. But the love of money might have ceased to be in his heart if he was draw to ideology and politics. Now he is lorded over by the love of power and moral superiority instead of wealth. But there is not one of these transformations in which the heart is left without an object. The human heart’s desire for one particular object is conquered. But its desire to have some object of adoration is unconquerable. The only way to dispossess the heart of all its affection is by the expulsive power of a new one. Thus is it not enough to hold out to the world the mirror of its own imperfections, it is not enough to come forth with the demonstration...of the character of their enjoyment, it is not enough to just simply speak the conscience, to speak its follies. Rather, you must seek, as a preacher, every legitimate method of finding access to the heart for the love of Him who is greater than the world.

Thomas Chelmers,
The Expulsive Power of a New Affection

Weapons of mass discussion.

1. What do you think a Christian is?
2. Who do you think Jesus is?
3. What do you think he came to do?
4. What do you think will happen to you after you die?