Science, Atheism & Freewill - Dr. Ravi Zacharias respond

The Kingdom of God

The Kingdom of God is within you, says the Lord. 

Turn to the Lord with your whole heart, and forsake this wretched world: your soul will find rest.

Learn to despise outward things, and to give your self to inward things: you shall see the Kingdom of God come within you. 

                                                                     - a Kempis

Thoughts on Worship

God values all of the gifts we bring Him, at least the honest and sincere gifts. I believe that this includes gifts of praise and thanksgiving, service, and material offerings.

Maybe God accepts gifts, not just by acceptance or rejection? Maybe they are accepted by degrees?

What if the gift is acceptable to God in the measure of character and attitude in which the one who offers to God?

If this is true, wouldn't we need to postpone giving to God until right relationships are established with others???

Could neglecting this truth found in Matthew 5 be the explanation of the barrenness of our worship? 

I suppose that if our worship is not focused, full and free, then we need to evaluate all our relationships.


True worship so satisfies the worshipper that they do not have to look and yearn for man-made substitutes. 

Quote of the Day

“If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.” 
                                                                         ― Charles H. Spurgeon

Broken

“God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.” 


                                                                             ― Vance Havner

The Right Climate

A businessman purchased a tropical plant. He put the plant in his office and did every thing he knew to keep the plant healthy. He gave it water, plant food, sunshine and lots of tender loving care. After two weeks the plant was turning brown and dying. 

He called the Florist and asked if the plant had a guarantee because the plant was dying. The Florist asked how he was caring for the plant. He said he was giving it water, plant food and sunshine. 

The Florist asked: “Are you misting the plant?”

“What do you mean, misting the plant?” The businessman responded.

The Florist replied, “The plant you purchased is a tropical plant and it needs high humidity. Take a spray bottle and spray mist on the plant for a week or two.” 

After two weeks of spraying the plant it turned green and was revitalized.

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What is required for you to be and remain healthy spiritually?

Reading the Bible in a "New Way" - Part Three

(Excerpt #3 - Conclusion)

 I am saying that we mustn’t belittle scripture by bringing the world’s models of authority into it.  We must let scripture be itself, and that is a hard task.  Scripture contains many things that I don’t know, and that you don’t know; many things we are waiting to discover; passages which are lying dormant waiting for us to dig them out.  Awaken them.  We must then make sure that the church, armed in this way, is challenging the world’s view of authority. 

It seems to me that evangelical tradition has often become in bondage to a sort of lip-service scripture principle even while debating in fact how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.... Instead, I suggest that our task is to seize this privilege with both hands, and use it to the glory of God and the redemption of the world.