Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Blessed are the poor in spirit. – Matthew 5:3 Beware of placing Our Lord as a Teacher first. If Jesus Christ is a Teacher only, then all He can do is to tantalize me by erecting a standard I can not attain. What is the use [...]
Job Opportunity
July 20, 2005
Google is offering jobs on the moon. While I’d like to do it, I don’t think my wife would let me go .
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Dependent on God’s Presence
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. They that wait upon the Lord . . . shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31 There is no thrill in walking; it is the test of all the stable qualities. To “walk and not faintâ€? is the highest reach possible for strength. The word [...]
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Notable Quotable
July 19, 2005
“I can’t help but feel that this has been a waste of four years of my life and thousands of dollars of my parents’ money. I think I would have been better off with an annotated bibliography and a library card.” Alec Campbell – University of Toronto, class of 2002
Mastery Over the Believer
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. Ye call Me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am. – John 13:13 Our Lord never insists on having authority; He never says- ‘Thou shalt.’ He leaves us perfectly free-so free that we can spit in His face, as men did; so [...]
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Notable Quotable
July 18, 2005
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” Albert Einstein
The Mystery of Believing
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. And he said, Who art Thou, Lord? – Acts 9:6 By the miracle of Redemption Saul of Tarsus was turned in one second from a strong-willed, intense Pharisee into a humble, devoted slave of the Lord Jesus. There is nothing miraculous about the things we can [...]
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Notable Quotable
July 15, 2005
“If an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place unless both believe they will benefit from it. Most economic fallacies derive from the neglect of this simple insight, from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.” Milton [...]
The Point of Spiritual Honour
Today’s My Utmost for His Highest, by Oswald Chambers. I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the barbarians. – Romans 1:14 Paul was overwhelmed with the sense of his indebtedness to Jesus Christ, and he spent himself to express it. The great inspiration in Paul’s life was his view of Jesus Christ as [...]
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Notable Quotable
July 14, 2005
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Epictetus
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