Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Be still, and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10 Tenacity is more than endurance, it is endurance combined with the absolute certainty that what we are looking for is going to transpire. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of [...]
Îχω ζωη: A Lesson in Greek Grammer
February 21, 2005
I’ve gotten a few emails in the last week or so correcting my greek. Îχω ζωη, pronounced echo zoe, is not quite correct. zoe is the nominative form, and in context should be rendered in the accusative form, which is ζωην, pronounced zoen. My blog should be titled Îχω ζωην. I created the title while [...]
Notable Quotable
“Whenever a people are so enervated by luxury as to intrust the defence of their country to a regular, standing army, composed of mercenaries, the power of that country will remain under the direction and influence of the most wealthy citizens.” Signed “A Farmer,” in the Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, January 29, 1791.
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Have You Ever Been Carried Away for Him?
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. She hath wrought a good work on Me. – Mark 14:6 If human love does not carry a man beyond himself, it is not love. If love is always discreet, always wise, always sensible and calculating, never carried beyond itself, it is not love at all. [...]
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Notable Quotable
February 18, 2005
“Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.” Charles H. Spurgeon
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The Initiative Against Despair
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Rise let us be going. – Matthew 26:46 The disciples went to sleep when they should have kept awake, and when they realized what they had done it produced despair. The sense of the irreparable is apt to make us despair, and we say-‘It is all [...]
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Notable Quotable
February 17, 2005
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Ayn Rand
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The Initiative Against Depression
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Arise and eat. – 1 Kings 19:5 The angel did not give Elijah a vision, or explain the Scriptures to him, or do anything remarkable; he told Elijah to do the most ordinary thing, viz., to get up and eat. If we were never depressed we [...]
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Notable Quotable
February 16, 2005
“…to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;… to keep within the requisite limits a standing [...]
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The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Arise from the dead. – Ephesians 5:14 All initiative is not inspired. A man may say to you-‘Buck up, take your disinclination by the throat, throw it overboard, and walk out into the thing!’ That is ordinary human initiative. But when the Spirit of God comes [...]
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