The Judgement Seat of Christ - Leonard Ravenhill
Posted April 30, 2007 
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Archive for April, 2007
Down this road
Posted April 28, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) I’ve been down this road before,
Though the seasons have changed,
I can see the way things were,
I see the way things have to be.
Blessed
Posted April 26, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) Last night I recieved a gift that I cannot express thanksgiving for. An older-gentleman offered to give me books… I thought a few books, but I left his house with three boxes containing sixty-five books!
I am so excited, I can’t wait to get time to dig into them, most of them are Christian classics and great study material.
The boxes included a full set of Calvin’s Commentaries (22 volumes) Expository Thoughts on the Gospels by JC Ryle (4 volumes) The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (4 Volumes) Strong’s and Young’s Concordances, writings from Wesley, Witfield, Spurgeon and much more. I can’t wait to get some time away to read!
LEGAL AND GOSPEL EXPERIENCE
Posted April 24, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) I read this last night and was absolutely blown away. Definitely worth reading!
By Charles Finney [original here]
Text. Ps. 40:1-3.–I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
Many of the Psalms should be regarded as inspired diaries, and as such they are most important way-marks to the Christian. The diaries of other men may mislead us. But when we find our experience to accord with that of inspired men, and with those parts of their experience which were recorded by the Spirit of God, we may be sure that we are in the same path in which they traveled to heaven. The 119 Psalm, together with many others, are manifestly of this character. They are as if the Psalmist had set up way-marks all along the pathway to heaven, and by recording his own experiences as on the mile-stones along the way, had given us the advantage of being certain whether or not we are in the way that inspired men have trodden.
I regard the text as an instance of this kind, wherein the Psalmist, after having passed through severe trials of mind, records both his trials, and deliverance for the benefit of all succeeding ages.
MISSIONARY FORAYS
Posted April 20, 2007 Comments(0)
Comments(0) An Analysis of Short Term Missions by Glenn J. Schwartz [Original Here]
Increasing interest in cross-cultural missionary work is producing a new interest in short-term missionary service.
For purposes of this article I have divided short-term visits to the mission field into two categories: very short visits of two to six weeks by those who are taking a working or non-working vacation; and longer visits of six months to two or three years. The longer ones are most often taken by young volunteers, professionals on sabbatical or retired persons willing to give a year or two of service. The major emphasis of this article will be on the shorter visits of two to six weeks.
The effectiveness of short term workers has been written about in various missionary publications in recent years. The purpose of this article is to raise a few questions about the effects of short term service both on the part of the participant as well as the local community in which they participate.