Here is G.K. Chesterton's final advice to a very intelligent child.
"And don't believe in anything
That can't be told in colored pictures"
Ideas that are too insubstantial to illustrate are likely to be unreal
abstractions or just mental muddles. Authentic insights are specific and
so can be pictured in ways that help both to explain them and to verify
them. And good mental pictures - models,
to use the modern word - by involving that half of our mind which we
call imagination, will take our understanding further than rational
analysis on its own can ever go. This is evidently why Jesus taught in
parables and why all communicators do well to cultivate a style of
presentation that is as imaginative as it is analytical. So did writers like C.S.Lewis and preachers like C.H.Spurgeon."
J.I.Packer, Keep In Step With The Spirit, pg. 95
Monday, June 30, 2014
"Statesboro Blues" with Taj Mahal and Gregg Allman
"Statesboro Blues" featuring Taj Mahal and Gregg Allman, from the forthcoming "All My Friends - Celebrating The Songs And Voice of Gregg Allman" Blu-Ray/DVD/CD available 5/6/14 from Rounder Records.
Eric Clapton & Joe Cocker - Worried Life Blues - Live TV Recording
The Tour For A.R.M.S. USA 1983 Live at Madison Square Garden, New York December 9th 1983
Friday, June 27, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Life Changing Quote - Enlarging Our Repentance
"We
need to realize that while God's acceptance of each Christian believer
is perfect from the start, our repentance always needs to be extended
further as long as we are in this world.
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin - to give as much as you know of yourself - to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged." J.I. Packer, Keep In Step With The Spirit, pg 87
Luther said all of life is repentance. We repent from as much as we know of our sin, and we always underestimate our own sin because of our fallenness. So we have to grow in repentance as we realize our sinfulness. Then we give as much as we know of our-self, again that is a process, we should constantly growing in a knowledge of our-selves. Then we give as much as know of our sin and as much as we know of our-self to as much as we know of our God. This makes growing in our knowledge of God critical. The greater we know God the greater we know our-self the greater we know of our sin. This means our practice of repentance will constantly be growing. Digest that! Amazing!
Repentance means turning from as much as you know of your sin - to give as much as you know of yourself - to as much as you know of your God, and as our knowledge grows at these three points so our practice of repentance has to be enlarged." J.I. Packer, Keep In Step With The Spirit, pg 87
Luther said all of life is repentance. We repent from as much as we know of our sin, and we always underestimate our own sin because of our fallenness. So we have to grow in repentance as we realize our sinfulness. Then we give as much as we know of our-self, again that is a process, we should constantly growing in a knowledge of our-selves. Then we give as much as know of our sin and as much as we know of our-self to as much as we know of our God. This makes growing in our knowledge of God critical. The greater we know God the greater we know our-self the greater we know of our sin. This means our practice of repentance will constantly be growing. Digest that! Amazing!
Monday, June 23, 2014
Grace Changes You
Living
a self-centered life indicates that your profession of faith may not
have been real in the first place. Charles Spurgeon said, “If the grace
which I profess to have received leaves me exactly the same kind of
person as I was before receiving it, it’s not New Testament salvation.
The grace which does not drastically alter my behavior will never alter
my destiny.”
Friday, June 20, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Misunderstanding Grace
There
is a lot of misunderstanding when it comes to grace. We distort grace
when we see grace as approval instead of undeserved favor, we diminish
our joy because we miss the truth that God predestined us for a purpose,
to conform us to Christ.
So we tell ourselves, “God loves me and accepts me just the way I am” —“Wait a tick” (Austin Powers), that isn't true at all! God loves us and accepts us in spite of the way we are and He loves and accepts us because of who Jesus is. God love's us so much that He refuses to leave us the way that He found us. He is at work making us like Jesus.
Quit making grace an excuse for your disobedience. Jesus didn't die on the cross so you could stay just the way you are. God's eternal plan is to change you and that goes against our controlling selfish nature. We should be glad that God will not leave us alone.
So we tell ourselves, “God loves me and accepts me just the way I am” —“Wait a tick” (Austin Powers), that isn't true at all! God loves us and accepts us in spite of the way we are and He loves and accepts us because of who Jesus is. God love's us so much that He refuses to leave us the way that He found us. He is at work making us like Jesus.
Quit making grace an excuse for your disobedience. Jesus didn't die on the cross so you could stay just the way you are. God's eternal plan is to change you and that goes against our controlling selfish nature. We should be glad that God will not leave us alone.
Tommy Emmanuel - Those Who Wait
Take four minutes turn up the song and let it soothe your mind and soul
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