Trusting God

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” —Corrie ten Boom

*Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom (Amsterdam, April 15, 1892 – Orange, California, April 15, 1983) was a Dutch Christian, who with her father and other family members helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. Her family was arrested due to an informant in 1944, and her father died 10 days later at Scheveningen prison where they were first held. A sister, brother and nephew were released, but Corrie and her sister Betsie were sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, where only Corrie survived. Ten Boom wrote eight books and spoke frequently in the postwar years about her experiences. She aided Holocaust survivors. She wrote an autobiography, The Hiding Place (1971), about her experiences. It was adapted as a film of the same name two years later and starred Jeannette Clift as Corrie.

Excellent Concise Summary of Liberal Theology

H. Richard Niebuhr famously once distilled liberal theology into this sentence: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.”

Impact of Discipleship & Mentoring

“More time spent with fewer people equals greater kingdom impact.”- Source Unknown, from Mentor Like Jesus by Regi Cambell & Richard Clancy, Kindle Location 79-81

Prayer Changes Us

“Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.” – R. C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord, Kindle Location 163-165

Prayer – Getting God’s Perspective

“I need the corrective vision of prayer because all day long I will lose sight of God’s perspective.” – Philip Yancey, Prayer, Kindle Location 435-438

Great Definition of Intercessory Prayer

“Intercession is not so much placing our burdens on God’s heart but God putting his burdens on our hearts.”

Lloyd John Ogilvie, Praying with Power, p.63.

Great Definition of Spiritual Gifts

“Spiritual gifts are not God bestowing to his people something external to himself.  They are not some tangible ‘stuff‘ or substance separable from God. Spiritual gifts are nothing less than God himself in us, energizing our souls, imparting revelation to our minds, infusing power in our wills, and working his sovereign and gracious purposes through us. Spiritual gifts must never be viewed deistically, as if God ‘out there’ has sent some ‘thing’ to us ‘down here.’ Spiritual gifts are God present in , with, and through human thoughts, human deeds, human words, human love.” – Sam Storms in The Beginner’s Guide to Spiritual Gifts, p. 13.

On Apologetics

“Our priority in apologetics is not to make the nonbeliever listen to us, but to help the person be ready to listen to God and be taught by him.”

– Joe Boot in Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend