August 21, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Without the Spirit it is not possible to hold the Word of God nor without the Son can any draw near to the Father, for the knowledge of the Father is the Son and the knowledge of the Son of God is through the Holy Spirit.

Irenaeus

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed every day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, because we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

2 Corinthians 4:18
The Revised Standard Version

Dear God, Is Reverend Coe a friend of yours, or do you just know him through business?

Question from a Third Grader

August 20, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

The way to begin a Christian life is not to study theology. Piety before theology. Right living will produce right thinking. Theology is well in its place, but repentance and love must come before all other experiences.

Henry Ward Beecher

All who invoke a blessing or take an oath will do so by the God of truth.

Isaiah 65:16
The New Living Translation

August 19, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

There is not an experienced saint, but will find, that by all the good things and bad things he hath been trysted with, by all the various vicissitudes and changes of providence, he hath come to see more of God than he saw before.

Ralph Erskine

And when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that will never fade away.

1 Peter 5:4
The New International Version

The devil is a better theologian than any of us, yet is a devil still.

A. W. Tozer

August 18, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special regard to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.

Augustine

Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

Matthew 22:37-40
The New International Version

August 17, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Ole Hallesby

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Psalm 89:14
The English Standard Version

When I look back at where I’ve been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Gloria Gaither

August 14, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Friday

Faith is the radical trust that home has always been there and always will be there.

Henri Nouwen

The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms.

Deuteronomy 33:27
The New International Version

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing.

Haddon Robinson

August 13, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

Some Christians try to go to heaven alone, in solitude. But believers are not compared to bears or lions or other animals that wander alone. Those who belong to Christ are sheep in this respect, that they love to get together. Sheep go in flocks, and so do God’s people.

Charles H. Spurgeon

Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

Daniel 2:20-22
The King James Version

August 12, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

Nothing is more powerful than a surrendered life in the hands of God.

Rick Warren

There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 18:24
The Revised Standard Version

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

P. T. Forsyth

August 11, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

Our problems and troubles are really a gracious sharing with us by God of His cross. In a sense He is allowing us to take part in the redemption of the world through Christ by letting us carry small- very small- splinters of His cross.

Unknown

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7
The New King James Version

August 10, 2020 by Greg

This Day’s Thought-Monday

Nothing can take the place of the touch of God in the soul and the sense of Someone there.

A. W. Tozer

Such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.

2 Corinthians 3:4-5
The New International Version

The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

C. S. Lewis

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