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Two Quotes and a Scripture

Posted in Jim Elliott, Madison Park, Quotes, tagged on October 9, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Madison Park, CNN, 10/04/10

“From Dr. Spock to Annette Funicello, growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, we grew up thinking we were special. Somehow, we metamorphosed from peace, love and happiness to a me generation.”

“We started accumulating wealth and began focusing on providing for ourselves and our families. That’s what we did and now, we’re beginning to look around. What’s it all about?” he said. “Many of us are divorced. Our families are spread to the seven winds. We’re disappointed.”1

Jim Elliott, evangelical Christian missionary to Ecuador, October 28, 1949

“He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose”2

The Apostle Paul, Galatians 6:7 (King James Version)

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Something, today, to think about.

– fritz

1 – Are once-happy boomers behind rise in midlife suicide, Madison Park, CNN, October 4, 2010 8:23 a.m. EDTCNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/04/baby.boomer.suicides/
2 – Wheaton College archives

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Take My Life

Posted in Frances Havergal, Quotes, Trust on October 8, 2010| Leave a Comment »

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” – John 6:37

‘ Take my life !’ We have said it or sung it before the Lord, it may be many times; but if it were only once whispered in His ear with full purpose of heart, should we not believe that He heard it? And if we know that He heard it, should we not believe that He has answered it, and fulfilled this, our heart’s desire?

Why should we doubt that He did verily take our lives when we offered them—our bodies when we presented them?”

– Frances Ridley Havergal, author of the hymn, “Take My Life and Let it Be”1


1 – Kept for the master’s Use, 1882, pg. 5

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Understanding Western Life and Culture

Posted in Dallas Willard, Human Body, Quotes on October 4, 2010| Leave a Comment »

Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. – 1st Corinthians 6:13b-14

“THE HUMAN BODY is … created for spiritual life in the kingdom of God and to be honored—indeed, glorified—in that context. But when taken out of that context and made the central focus of human experience and endeavor, it is betrayed—robbed of the spiritual resources meant to sustain its life and proper functioning—and in turn it then betrays those who center their life on it.

The sense of this betrayal is what lies at the heart of youth worship in Western societies.

It also is the source of the fear, shame, disgust, and even the anger directed at fat, old age (or just aging), and death and dying that dominate our culture.

An outlook focused entirely on the body finds the body’s failure and cessation to be, of course, the ultimate insult from which there is no recovery.

You have to understand this if you want to understand Western life and culture” – Dallas Willard1

– fritz


1 – Renovation of the Heart, NavPress, copyright 1992, page 184

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