Evangelism & Preaching

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

It helps to resign as the controller of your fate. All that energy we expend to keep things running right is not what keeps things running right.

Anne Lamott

This Day's Verse

Make the most of your chances to tell others the Good News. Be wise in all your contacts with them. Let your conversation be gracious as well as sensible, for then you will have the right answer for everyone.

Colossians 4:5-6
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

Bishop Festo Kivengere told the story of how he was going off to preach after a row with his wife. The Holy Spirit said to him, “Go back and pray with your wife!” He argued, “I’m due to preach in twenty minutes. I’ll do it afterwards.” “OK,” said the Holy Spirit. “You go and preach; I’ll stay with your wife.”

Festo Kivengere

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

How paltry must be the devotions of those who are always in a hurry.

William Law

This Day's Verse

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others.

Philippians 2:3-4
The New Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

They were wending homeward from the village kirk when Mrs. Mactavish said to Mrs. Macleod: “And what did you think of the young minister’s sermon this morning?” “Weel,” said Mrs. Macleod thoughtfully, “I find three faults with his sermon: frstly, he read it; secondly, he dinna read well; and thirdly, it wasn’t worth readin.”

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another. No man can judge another, because no man knows himself.

Thomas Browne

This Day's Verse

Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:5
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

When you don’t witness, you just did.

Unknown

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

If thou wouldst find much favor and peace with God and man, be very low in thine own eyes; forgive thyself little, and others much.

Robert Leighton

This Day's Verse

Preach the word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or not. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching.

2 Timothy 4:2
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Little is much if God is in it.

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

One result of the unbelief of our day is the tragedy of trying to live a maximum life on a minimum faith.

Rufus Matthew Jones

This Day's Verse

The LORD preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

Psalm 116:6
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

The defects in a preacher are soon spied: let a preacher be endued with ten virtues, and but one fault, yet this one will eclipse and darken all his virtues and gifts, so evil is the world in these times. Dr. Justus Jonas has all the good virtues and qualities a man may have; yet merely because he hums and spits, the people cannot bear that good and honest man.

Martin Luther

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

The Christian faith engages the profoundest problems the human mind can entertain and solves them completely and simply by pointing to the Lamb of God.

A. W. Tozer

This Day's Verse

Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant.

Psalm 119:76
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

Following Jesus starts with the house next door.  A belief in longer tables, not higher fences.

Clement Sprout

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This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honestly, and live triumphantly.

Arlo F. Newel

This Day's Verse

As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reveals the man.

Proverbs 27:19
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

“I have heard many great orators,” said Louis XIV to Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon, “and have been highly pleased with them; but whenever I hear you, I go away displeased with myself.” This is the highest encomium that could be bestowed on a preacher.

Charles Simmons

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This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

John Newton

This Day's Verse

“For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, And He has set the world upon them.”

1 Samuel 2:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Though the Bible urges us on to perfection it gives no encouragement to suppose that perfection is achieved….A man who thinks he is righteous is not righteous…for the reason, primarily, that he is full of spiritual pride, the most deadly form that sin can take.

D. Elton Trueblood

This Day's Verse

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We will have eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

Amy Carmichael

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him.  Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.

Thomas à Kempis

This Day's Verse

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;

Galatians 5:22-23
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Too many clergymen have become keepers of an aquarium instead of fishers of men—and often they are just swiping each other’s fish.

Myron Augsburger

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