'Obedience Borne of Romance'

I have often heard the question, "How do I love God with all my heart, soul and mind?" If you are interested in an answer: I want you to do me a favor. Read the following:

"To love God with all my heart, soul, mind and

strength is the greatest commandment in the Law.

If I could simply fulfill this one commandment, I

would gladly fulfill all others as a natural matter

of course.

So how can I come to love God with all of my

being ? The Bible teaches that genuine love in my

heart for God is generated by an awareness of His love

for me, and nowhere is the love of God more clearly

revealed than in the gospel. Therefore, preaching the

gospel to myself is a great way to keep God's amazing

love before my eyes, so that I might experience its

power to produce in me a passionate love for Him in

return . Romanced by His love in this way , my

increasingly smitten heart will burn to do His will and

will feast itself on doing so."

I reckon that is a helpful response! Thank you Milton Vincent.

A QUOTE from the Irish Calvanist

"Too often guilt inhibits joy, but it should not be! The conviction of the Holy Spirit is to bring the awareness and hatred of our own sin. The subsequent guilt and feelings of unworthiness is not an end of themselves but rather a vehicle to drive us to see the prevailing beauty and efficacy of the righteousness of the Lamb that was slain."

Some GREAT QUESTIONS...

My wife and I were just speaking about this last night... How would you answer this question?

"If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...?" - Keith Green

Now click here and view this interview with CJ Mahaney & John Piper... The question CJ is asking John Piper is regarding 'Radical Risk without Relocation' and what that looks like... WOW & AMEN!!!

Quote by Francis Schaeffer

In an address to students at the University of Notre Dame, the great apologist Frances Schaeffer made this profound statement:

"Christianity is not a series of truths in the plural, but rather truth spelled with a capital "T". Truth about total reality, not just about religious things. Biblical Christianity is Truth concerning total reality - and the intellectual holding of that total Truth and then living in the light of that Truth."

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The Power of the Bible to Illuminate Christ

Here is a quote on, The Power of the Bible to Illuminate Christ.

Please read it slowly & may it provoke you to read the WORD!

"Our Christian conviction is that the Bible has both
authority and relevance - to a degree quite
extraordinary in so ancient a book - and that the
secret of both is in Jesus Christ. Indeed, we should
never think of the Christ and the Bible apart ....
This reciprocal testimony between the Living Word
and the written Word is the clue to our Christian
understanding of the Bible. For his testimony to it
assures us of its authority, and its testimony to him of
its relevance. The authority and
the relevance are his."

John R. Stott

Rector Emeritus of All Souls Church, London
The Authority and Relevance of the Bible in the
Modern World, 1979

Quote

"Because of lack of fortitude and faithfulness on the
part of God's people, God's Word has many times
been allowed to be bent, to conform to the
surrounding, passing, changing culture of that
moment rather than to stand as the inerrant Word of
God judging the form of the world spirit and the
surrounding culture of that moment."

Francis A. Shaeffer (1912 - 1984)
American Presbyterian Minister and Speaker