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The Truest Kind of Work
“Jesus did more work with His hands and feet disabled than any man ever did.” Binsey Cote Please follow and like us:
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Watchman Nee on Faith
“True faith is not about you trying; it’s about you dying.” Watchman Nee Please follow and like us:
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Seek the Lord Before Doing Good
“Good isn’t always God’s will but God’s will is always good.” Watchman Nee Please follow and like us:
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How To Do Nothing But God’s Will
“It is as obedience becomes the passion of your life that the ears will be opened by God’s Spirit to wait for His teaching, and we will be content with nothing less than a divine guidance into the divine will for us.” Andrew Murray (1828-1917), The School of Obedience, 1941, The Moody Bible Institute. LISTEN, WAIT FOR DIVINE GUIDANCE, MAKE OBEDIENCE TO GOD’S SPIRIT THE PASSION OF YOUR LIFE Please follow and like us:
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Social Justice Goodness Exposed
When it comes to helping the poor, how often does doing-good result in tangible, long-term good? Rarely, according to Laura Seay, a professor at Morehouse College. In the July/August 2013 issue of Fast Company magazine, Seay describes a phenomenon of goods-giving (known as dumping) to impoverished communities as “just treating one symptom of a much deeper problem, and treating symptoms is not a cure.” In reference to Tom’s Shoes, which donates a pair of shoes for every pair sold, she says, “The shoe seller goes out of business. He can’t send his kids to school.” In strange fact, Tom’s Shoe disbursements haven’t been as damaging as expected to local economies…
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A Night in the Chestnut Tree, John G. Paton
Out of all our experiences on this earth, none will transform us like that of being met by Christ in the midst of our pain, our fear, our need. John G. Paton describes one such occasion he experienced while fleeing the clubs of the natives who sought to take his life: “I climbed into the tree, and was left there alone in the bush. The hours I spent there live all before me as if it were but of yesterday. I heard the frequent discharge of muskets, and the yells of the savages. Yet I sat there among the branches, as safe in the arms of Jesus! Never, in all…
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The Fringes of Victory, John G. Paton
Does loss haunt you? Does it cause you to be insecure about your relationship to God? John G. Paton (1824-1907) suffered losses beyond the experience of most. A month after establishing a mission station in the heart of the warring and human flesh eating people of the islands of Vanuatu, his wife died from complications of malaria. Two weeks after his wife’s death, his newborn son also died. Alone but for native helpers, Paton suffered great losses for the next three years: bouts of malaria, constant death threats, frequent native wars, a serious outbreak of measles purposely brought by a sandalwood trader to the islands to wipe out the natives,…
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Submitting to Sadness, Romans 8:28
“Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.” Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) Please follow and like us:
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Christian Growth, Frederick W. Robertson
“As the tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and fallen leaves, and grows out of its own decay, so men and nations are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.” Frederick W. Robertson Please follow and like us:
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Another “Truth” Unlearned
“God will never give you more than you He can handle.” Unlearned the hard way, Binsey, Tree Thoughts Adminstrator Please follow and like us:
