Johnny and Hannah

Integrity matters.
We expect it, want it and need it, naively perhaps, of people in all places and in all walks of life. We trust people whose words, character and actions are consistent. But why is integrity so rare?
Why does our walk not match our talk? One of the most pertinent and positive examples of [...]

Psalm 23
The LORD is my shepherd,
I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down
in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of
righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk
through the valley of the
shadow of death,
I fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You [...]

Give them not hell,
but hope and courage.
Preach the everlasting love of God.

“The nature of a fire is to go out;
you must keep it
stirred up!
and fed
and the ashes removed!” 
General William Booth
Keep doing these things!! 
Philippians 2v12-23 
PUT INTO ACTION GOD’S SAVING WORK! 

from one of my pastoral conversations this week;- 
‘God doesn’t want us to be comfortable - He wants us to be obedient: He doesn’t want our happiness, half as much as He wants our holiness.’ 

PSALM 121
I lift up my eyes to the hills
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip
he who watches over you will not slumber;
Indeed, he who watches over Israel
will neither slumber nor sleep.
The LORD watches over you
the LORD is your shade [...]

‘We are to preach metanoia.We must entice people from the world to God! We are not to shut ourselves off from the world in a spirit of asceticism, but to live in the everyday world, inspired by the radical obedience that is demanded by the love of God.The church must be reformed again and again, [...]

Question- What is your only comfort in life and in death?
Answer:- That I am not my own but belong  - body and soul, in life and in death - to my faithful Saviour Jesus Christ! 
and it goes on to say!……
 
who, with His precious blood, has fully satisfied for all my sins and has delivered [...]

“Every act of sin is a fruit of being weary of God.”
John Owen
The Puritan Pastor from His writing,
Indwelling Sin, p260.

“Knowledge is nothing,
Obedience is everything!”
From Roy Crowne of YFC & Hope 2008
This is the start of a little series
where I’ll try to track gems from the first day of the week!
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