December 2011
“We are not so foolish as to think we can learn a trade without
the diligent use...”
– John Owen
“The attitude which you want to guard against is that in which temporal affairs...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
(Note that this is a demon speaking to another demon of a Christian man. Lesson: Don’t let “religious” activities get in the way with your personal walk with God.)
How Strongholds Develop...
A thought —-> A consideration —-> An attitude —-> Action —-> A repeated action —-> A habit —-> a “power base for the enemy” is now established.
Surrender Your Thought-Life
1.) Whose glory do I seek?
2.) Is this for or against the knowledge of God?
3.) Am I giving my mind to wholesome precepts?
4.) Is it more important to me to understand than to obey?
5.) Is it more important to me to know than to believe?
6.) Do I reject a particular truth because it will inconvenience me?
“The natural mind prefers argument to obedience, solution to truth. Its immediate...”
– Elisabeth Elliot
“I have found it necessary sometimes deliberately to refuse thoughts of what...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
Made a post-it to read each morning when it's hard...
“Awake my soul, and with the sun
Thy daily stage of duty run:
Shake off dull sloth and joyful rise
To pay thy morning sacrifice.”
-Thomas Ken
“They who fain would serve Him best
Are conscious most of wrong within.”
“It is a good thing, it seems to me, to learn to do with less. One way to begin...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Discipline: The Glad Surrender
“Anyone who would have power in prayer must be merciless in
dealing with his own...”
– R.A. Torrey
“Though most modern guys might appear to want women who are aggressive and easy...”
– Leslie Ludy
looking forward to precious moments like these...
“Last week Harper (age 4) decided that she wanted to kiss Hudson “on the lips” instead of just on the cheek. She proposed the idea as we were all eating breakfast. “Can I kiss Hudson on the lips?” she asked, her expression filled with childlike innocence. (After all, if Mommy and Daddy can kiss on the lips, why couldn’t she kiss Hudson that way?) Hudson (age 6) looked up from his food and...
“I’ve always looked for a girl who would turn my head. But for the first time in...”
– Marky Ludy (via pepper-ish)
