Volume 1, Page 2
1. The desire to obey will wane as it sits on the shelf of inaction.
It is an all-too-common tendency for us to confuse the gift for the Giver, or more specifically, to place undue value or delight in the gift over the Giver. As C.S Lewis wrote,
We don’t see the trees of our faint and partial experience of Christ for the forest of our worldliness and our tendency to be “far too easily pleased,” as C.S Lewis once put it.
The point of these brief words is to be a springboard into deeper thinking and prayer. Though exceedingly short and often unrelated, may they be what John Piper calls, “sentences set on fire by God.”
The Power of the Word of God
Continued from yesterday:
So if we now want our marriages to be more than what they are, where do we go from here?
A sermon on Marriage, given April 30, 2006
The skeptic says there is no such thing as heaven because he can’t see it.
The following was a response to the charge that, “You would do well to be more moderate with your religion.”
“Here is the creed for the modern thinker: