Tag: notes

Convonotes continues…

Step past your wounds and help others. Then you will look back and find your wounds have disappeared by the resurrection power. (A watched pot never boils because if you are watching your pot, you aren’t showing any faith.)

We work with God like a child trying to learn to write. His father’s hand surrounds his hand, guides it. His father’s hand is the one responsible for forming the letters. Yet if the child chooses to make his hand go limp, then it will not work well. The child’s part is to keep his hand stiff and his eyes attentive. Then the letters will form.

You can’t lose your salvation, because you can’t break a relationship–but you can break fellowship. Your dad will never cease to be your dad, but you can become estranged to him. [hmm…in cases of utter disownment…?]
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“It is hard for me to be clever and make Jesus beautiful at the same time.” – Jim Cymbala

“Grace and self-sufficiency are like oil and water.” – Daniel Henderson

Discontent is a good place to be because it can be the mother of change (if and only if you choose to). – Tim Clinton

TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE

  1. Accept responsibility
  2. Seek wisdom
  3. Do something
  4. Be passionate and decided
  5. Choose to be happy/joyful
  6. Persevere

– Tim Clinton

Mere Christianity excerpts

Reading it, finally, and loving it.

I do not succeed in keeping the Law of Nature very well, and the moment anyone tells me I am not keeping it, there starts up in my mind a string of excuses as long as your arm. The question at the moment is not whether they are good excuses. The point is that they are one more proof of how deeply, whether we believe it or not, we believe in the Law of Nature (18).

Now this thing which judges between two instincts, that decides which should be encouraged, cannot itself be either of them (19).

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: out instincts are merely the keys (20).

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd (43).

That is one of the reasons I believe Christianity. It is a religion you could not have guessed (43).

Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. (46).