“discernment”
Sunday, April 27th, 2008Discernment is a spiritual gift, given to us by the grace of God.
Doesn’t that mean that this gift should be used WITH grace?
Lord, make me grace-full…
Discernment is a spiritual gift, given to us by the grace of God.
Doesn’t that mean that this gift should be used WITH grace?
Lord, make me grace-full…
You’d better be careful! God might DO something.
BOO!
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excerpt from a post I made to a nameless message board regarding criticism of the revival in Florida.
Well.
I couldn’t resist.
A fellow blogger posted another version - AFAIK this is the original, by Wilbur Reese.
I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.
Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.
I don’t want enough of him to [...]
The following is an excerpt from an interview William T Stead gave to the London Methodist Times during the Welsh revival (1905). Reporter is in purple, Mr. Stead is in blue:
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“But is it all emotion? Is there no teaching?”
“Precious little. Do you think [...]
Please, please, please do not tell me that you want things to be different in your life while you’re working so hard to keep them the same.
On a similar note, please don’t complain to me how bad things are you when you’re working SO hard to keep them bad.