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What kind of Men does God use?
Horatius Bonar, writing the preface to John Gillies’ Accounts of Revival regarding the leaders of the First Great Awakening, proposed that men useful to the Holy Spirit for revival stand out in these nine ways: 1. They are in earnest: “They lived and labored and preached like men on whose lips the immortality of thousands hung.” 2. …
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God uses Ordinary People
“From Scripture we know that God has deliberately limited the number of Christians He has chosen to be successful. In the latter part of the first chapter of I Corinthians and in the first part of the second chapter the Apostle Paul explains why. He says that not many wise, not many influential and not…
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The Happiness Factor
What a way to start Tuesday!!! Hope this quote reminds us to be happy and why we are happy. “To gain entire likeness to Christ, I ought to get a high esteem of the happiness of it. I am persuaded that God’s happiness is inseparably linked in with his holiness. Holiness and happiness are like…
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Sin is a fake imitation of something real
“All those who wander far away and set themselves up against you are imitating you, but in a perverse way; yet by this very mimicry they proclaim that you are the Creator of the whole of nature and that in consequence there is no place whatever where we can hide from your presence.” Augustine, Confessions,…
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Jesus is my Righteousness, Dennis is His Sin
“Now I should like to know whether your soul, tired of its own righteousness, is learning to be revived by and to trust in the righteousness of Christ. . . . My dear brother, learn Christ and him crucified. Learn to pray to him and, despairing of yourself, say, ‘You, Lord Jesus, are my righteousness,…