Psalm 51

Sunday, 9 March 2008

The Names of God

Here are some of the names of our Lord God. I don't know if this list is exhaustive (some of them might be repeated!) As always, if anyone has any more then let us know and we'll add them. I didn't compile these originally, the sources are:

http://www.characterbuildingforfamilies.com/names.html

http://www.lillyofthevalleyva.com/jesuslovesyou-godsnames-complist.html

A Branch (Jesus)
A chief cornerstone (Jesus)
A consuming fire
A covert from the tempest
A crown of glory
A diadem of beauty
A father to Israel
A God that hidest thyself
A Governor
A great high priest (Jesus)
A holy God
A jealous God
A just God and a Savior
A hiding place from the wind
A high priest of good things to come (Jesus)
A high priest over the house of God (Jesus)
A judge of the widows
A light to lighten the Gentiles (Jesus)
A living stone (Jesus)
A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief (Jesus)
A man of war
A merciful and faithful high priest (Jesus)
A merciful God
A mighty terrible one (In KJV, "terrible" means "awesome")
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle (Jesus)
A nail in a sure place
A place of broad rivers and streams
A plant of renown (Jesus)
A priest upon his throne (Jesus)
A Prince and a Savior
A rewarder of them that diligently seek him
A rock of offense [to the unbeliever] (Jesus)
A rod out of the stem of Jesse (Jesus)
A sanctuary
A Scepter (Jesus)
A shadow from the heat
A shelter for me
A son over his own house (Jesus) [the Church is His house]
A Star out of Jacob (Jesus)
A stone of stumbling [to the unbeliever] (Jesus)
A strength to the needy in his distress
A strength to the poor
A strong LORD
A strong tower from the enemy
A sun and shield
A sure foundation
A tried stone
A very present help in trouble
A wall of fire round about
A witness to us (Holy Spirit)
Abba, Father
Advocate with the Father (Jesus)
Almighty God
Alpha and Omega
An ensign for the nations
An ensign of the people
Ancient of days
Apostle and High Priest of our profession (Jesus)
Author and finisher of our faith (Jesus)
Author of eternal salvation (Jesus)
Author of peace
Beginning of the creation of God (Jesus)
Blessed and only Potentate
Bread of God (Jesus)
Bread of life (Jesus)
Bright and morning star
Buckler to all those that trust in him
Buckler to them that walk uprightly
Captain of their salvation (Jesus)
Christ Jesus
Christ Jesus our Lord
Christ in you, the hope of glory
Christ the King of Israel
Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God
Confidence of all the ends of the earth
Consolation of Israel (Jesus)
Counselor
Covenant of the people (Jesus)
Creator of the ends of the earth
Dayspring from on high (Jesus)
Desire of all nations (Jesus)
Everlasting Father
Everlasting God
Everlasting King
Faithful and True
Faithful Creator
Faithful witness
Father of glory
Father of lights
Father of mercies
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
Father of spirits
Father of the fatherless
First-begotten of the dead (Jesus)
Firstborn among many brethren (Jesus)
Firstborn of every creature (Jesus)
Former of all things
Fountain of Living Waters
Glory of their strength
Glory of thy people Israel
God Almighty
God alone
God and Father of all
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
God full of compassion
God in whose hand thy breath is
God most high
God my maker
God of Abraham
God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob
God of all comfort
God of all flesh
God of all grace
God of all the families of Israel
God of glory
God of gods
God of heaven
God of heaven and earth
God of hope
God of Israel
God of Jacob
God of Jeshurun ("Jeshurun" means "upright," and refers to Israel)
God of knowledge
God of love and peace
God of my life
God of my mercy
God of my praise
God of my righteousness
God of my rock
God of our salvation
God of patience and consolation
God of peace
God of the armies of Israel
God of the Hebrews
God of the living
God of the spirits of all flesh
God of the whole earth
God of thy fathers
God of truth and without iniquity
God only wise
God our Savior
God our shield
God ready to pardon
God that answereth by fire
God, that cannot lie
God, that comforteth those that are cast down
God that doest wonders
God that formed thee
God, that giveth to all men liberally
God that judgeth in the earth
God that made the world and all things therein
God that performeth all things for me
God that showeth mercy
God, the Father
God the Judge of all
God the LORD
God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ
God, which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number
God which fed me all my life long unto this day
God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
God, which hath not turned away my prayer
God which raiseth the dead
God, which trieth our hearts
God's servant (Jesus)
God's righteous servant (Jesus)
Governor among the nations
Gracious and merciful God
Great King above all gods
Great King over all the earth
Great shepherd of the sheep (Jesus)
Guide of my youth
Habitation of justice
He in whom I trust
He that abideth of old
He that buildeth his stories in the heavens
He that built all things
He that by wisdom made the heavens
He that called you into the grace of Christ
He that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth
He that calleth you
He that cometh from above (Jesus)
He that cometh from heaven (Jesus)
He that cometh in the name of the Lord (Jesus)
He that comforteth you
He that createth the wind
He that declareth unto man what is his thought
He that doth speak
He that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself
He that filleth all in all
He that formed thee from the womb
He that formeth the mountains
He that giveth breath unto the people
He that giveth strength and power unto his people
He that hath called us to glory and virtue
He that hath founded his troop in the earth
He that hath mercy on them
He that hath the key of David (Jesus)
He that hath the seven Spirits of God
He that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand
He that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think
He that is able to keep you from falling
He that is able to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
He that is from the beginning
He that is higher than the highest
He that is holy
He that is mighty
He that is of power to stablish you
He that is true
He that judgeth me
He that judgeth righteously
He that keepeth Israel
He that keepeth thee
He that keepeth thy soul
He that liveth and was dead (Jesus)
He that liveth for ever and ever
He that loved us
He that maketh the morning darkness
He that maketh the seven stars and Orion
He that made great lights
He that ministereth to you the Spirit
He that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth
He that ought to be feared
He that pondereth the heart
He that raised up Jesus from the dead
He that revealeth secrets
He that rideth upon the heavens of heavens
He that sanctifieth
He that searcheth the hearts
He that seeth me
He that shall come (Jesus)
He that shall have dominion (Jesus)
He that sitteth in the heavens
He that sitteth upon the circle of the earth
He that sitteth upon the throne
He that smote Egypt in their firstborn
He that spared not his own Son (the Father)
He that speaketh from heaven
He that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong
He that stretched out the earth above the waters
He that took me out of the womb
He that treadeth upon the high places of the earth
He that turneth the shadow of death into the morning
He that washed us from our sins (Jesus)
He that worketh miracles among you
He which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (Jesus)
He which divided the Red Sea into parts
He which giveth life unto the world
He which hath anointed us
He which hath the sharp sword with two edges
He which is, and which was, and which is to come
He which is perfect in knowledge
He which led his people through the wilderness
He which searcheth the reins and hearts
He which smote great kings
He which stablisheth us with you in Christ
He which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead (Jesus)
He who alone doeth great wonders
He who hath builded the house (Jesus)
He who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light
He who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire
He who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks
He who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will
He whom God hath sent (Jesus)
He with whom we have to do
Head of the body, the church (Jesus)
Health of my countenance
Heir of all things (Jesus)
Helper of the fatherless
High priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek (Jesus)
His Anointed (Jesus)
His dear Son (Jesus)
His Son from heaven (Jesus)
His Spirit that dwelleth in you
His unspeakable gift (Jesus)
Holy Ghost
Holy One of Israel
Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit of promise
Hope of his people
Hope of Israel (Jesus)
Hope of Israel, the Savior thereof in time of trouble
Horn of my salvation
House of defense
I AM
I AM THAT I AM
I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save
Image of the invisible God (Jesus)
Immanuel [God with us] (Jesus)
JAH
Jealous
JEHOVAH (YHWH)
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ our Lord
Jesus Christ the righteous
Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus the mediator of the new covenant
Jesus, thou Son of God most high
Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come
Judge of all the earth
Judge of quick and dead (Jesus)
Justifier of him which believeth in Jesus
King forever and ever
King of all the earth
King of glory
King of heaven
King of Israel
King of kings
KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS
King of Nations
King of saints
King of the Jews (Jesus)
Lamb of God (Jesus)
Light of the Gentiles (Jesus)
Lion of the tribe of Judah (Jesus)
Lord also of the sabbath
Lord and Christ
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ
LORD God
Lord God Almighty
LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel
LORD God of hosts
LORD God of Israel
LORD God of my salvation
LORD God of our fathers
LORD God of recompense
LORD God of the Hebrews
Lord God of the holy prophets
LORD God of truth
Lord God omnipotent
Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel
Lord, holy and true
Lord Jesus
LORD most high
Lord of all (Jesus)
LORD of hosts
Lord of glory
Lord of kings
Lord of lords
Lord of peace
Lord of Sabaoth
Lord of the whole earth
LORD on high
LORD our God
LORD our Lord
Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be
Majesty on high
Master
Mediator of a better covenant (Jesus)
Mediator of the new testament (Jesus)
Mighty God of Jacob
Mighty One of Israel
Mine elect (Jesus)
Mine Holy One
Most Mighty
Most upright
My beloved
My beloved Son (Jesus)
My buckler
My defense
My defense and refuge in the day of my trouble
My deliverer
My exceeding joy
My Father
My father's God
My [God's] firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth (Jesus)
My fortress
My friend
My glory
My God
My goodness
My help
My hiding place
My hiding place and my shield
My high tower
My hope
My hope in the day of evil
My judge
My King
My lamp
My love
My portion for ever
My portion in the land of the living
My praise
My Redeemer
My refuge
My refuge and my portion
My refuge in the day of affliction
My rock
My salvation
My Savior
My [God's] servant (Jesus)
My [God's] servant David (Jesus)
My shepherd
My shield
My song
My stay
My strength and power
My strength and song
My strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort
My strong refuge
My strong rock
My trust from my youth
One LORD
One mediator between God and men (Jesus)
Only begotten of the Father (Jesus)
Only begotten Son of God (Jesus)
Our captain
Our dwelling place
Our Father
Our Father which is in heaven
Our guide
Our lawgiver
Our life
Our Lord Jesus Christ
Our peace
Our potter
Our Savior Jesus Christ
Portion of Jacob
Portion of mine inheritance and of my cup
Possessor of heaven and earth
Precious corner stone
Prince of life (Jesus)
Prince of Peace (Jesus)
Prince of princes
Prince of the kings of the earth
Promise of the Father (Holy Spirit)
Redeemer of Israel
Refuge for the oppressed
Refuge from the storm
Refuge in times of trouble
Righteous Branch (Jesus)
Righteous Father
Rivers of water in a dry place
Rock of Israel
Rock of my refuge
Rock of my salvation
Rock of my strength
Root of David (Jesus)
Root of Jesse (Jesus)
Ruler in Israel
Salvation of God (Jesus)
Salvation of Israel
Saving strength of his anointed
Savior of all men
Savior of the world (Jesus)
Seed of Abraham (Jesus)
Shepherd and Bishop of your souls
Shepherd of Israel
Shield of thy help
Shiloh (Jesus)
Son of David (Jesus)
Son of God (Jesus)
Son of man (Jesus)
Son of the Blessed (Jesus)
Son of the Father (Jesus)
Son of the Highest (Jesus)
Son of the living God (Jesus)
Spirit of adoption
Spirit of Christ
Spirit of counsel and might
Spirit of glory and of God
Spirit of God
Spirit of grace
Spirit of holiness
Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD
Spirit of life
Spirit of the living God
Spirit of the LORD
Spirit of truth
Spirit of wisdom and understanding
Stone of Israel
Strength of Israel
Strength of my heart
Strength of my salvation
Sun of righteousness (Jesus)
Sword of thy excellency
That eternal life (Jesus)
That man whom he hath ordained (Jesus)
The Almighty
The Amen
The beginning and the ending
The beginning, the firstborn from the dead (Jesus)
The Branch of righteousness (Jesus)
The breaker (as in, the deliverer -- see Micah 2:13)
The bridegroom (Jesus)
The brightness of his glory (Jesus)
The chief corner stone (Jesus)
The chief Shepherd (Jesus)
The Christ
The Christ of God
The Comforter (Holy Spirit)
The Deliverer (Jesus)
The earnest of our inheritance (Holy Spirit)
The eternal God
The eternal Spirit
The express image of his person (Jesus)
The faithful and true witness
The faithful God
The fear of Isaac
The first and the last
The first-begotten (Jesus)
The glorious LORD
The glory in the midst of her [Jerusalem]
The Godhead
The great and dreadful God
The great God
The great God that formed all things
The Great, the Mighty God
The great, the mighty, and the terrible God ("terrible" means "awesome" in KJV)
The Head (Jesus)
The head of the corner (Jesus)
The high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity
The high God
The high God their redeemer
The Highest
The Holy
The Holy One
The Holy One and the Just (Jesus)
The Holy One in the midst of thee
The Holy One of God (Jesus)
The hope of their fathers
The husbandman (the Father)
The invisible God
The Just One
The King eternal, immortal, invisible
The Lamb (Jesus)
The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world (Jesus)
The Lamb that was slain (Jesus)
The last Adam (Jesus)
The lifter up of mine head
The Light
The light of the world (Jesus)
The living bread which came down from heaven (Jesus)
The living Father
The Living God
The Lord from heaven (Jesus)
The LORD mighty in battle
The LORD my banner
The LORD my strength
The LORD our maker
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
The LORD strong and mighty
The LORD that doth sanctify you
The LORD that healeth thee
The LORD that is faithful
The LORD that maketh all things
The LORD that smiteth
The LORD the God
The LORD, The God of Hosts
The LORD the Judge
THE LORD THY GOD
The LORD thy God from the land of Egypt
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee
The LORD thy Redeemer
The LORD which hallows you
The LORD which will help thee
The LORD your God which goeth before you
The Lord's Christ (Jesus)
The Majesty in the heavens
The Messiah (Jesus)
The Messiah the Prince (Jesus)
The mighty God
The Most High
The most high God
The Most High over all the earth
The Most Holy (Jesus)
The only Lord God
The only true God
The only wise God
The only wise God our Savior
The pearl of great price
The Prophet (Jesus)
The propitiation for our sins (Jesus)
The resurrection, and the life (Jesus)
The righteous judge
The righteous LORD
The Rock
The Rock that begat thee
The rock that is higher than I
The root and the offspring of David (Jesus)
The seven Spirits of God (Holy Spirit)
The shadow of a great rock in a weary land
The Son (Jesus)
The Spirit
The Spirit of his Son (Holy Spirit)
The Spirit of your Father
The stone which the builders disallowed (Jesus)
The true bread from heaven (Jesus)
The true God
The true light (Jesus)
The true vine (Jesus)
The uncorruptible God
The way, the truth, and the life (Jesus)
The Word (Jesus)
The Word of God (Jesus)
The Word of life (Jesus)
Thine everlasting light
Thine husband
Thou preserver of men
Thou that dwellest between the cherubim
Thou that dwellest in the heavens
Thou that hearest prayer
Thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel
Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock
Thou that liftest me up from the gates of death
Thou that savest by thy right hand
Thou whom my soul loveth
Thy Creator
Thy exceeding great reward
Thy father that hath bought thee
Thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people
Thy good Spirit
Thy holy child Jesus
Thy keeper
Thy life, and the length of thy days
Thy Lord the LORD
Thy Maker
Thy shade upon thy right hand
Tower of salvation
Wonderful
Your dread
Your fear
Your heavenly Father
Your Holy One

Jehovah El Elohim (Joshua 22:22)
- The LORD GOD of GODS

Jehovah Elohim (Genesis 2:4, 3:9-13, 21)
- The LORD GOD

Jehovah Elohe Abothekem (Joshua 18:3)
- The LORD GOD of Your Fathers

Jehovah El Elyon (Genesis 14:22)
- The LORD, the Most High GOD

Jehovah El Emeth (Psalms 31:5)
- LORD GOD of Truth

Jehovah El Gemuwal (Jeremiah 51:56)
- The LORD GOD of Recompenses

Jehovah Elohim Tsebaoth (Psalms 59:5, Isaiah 28:22)
- LORD GOD of Hosts

Jehovah Elohe Yeshuathi (Psalms 88:1)
- LORD GOD of My Salvation

Jehovah Elohe Yisrael (Psalms 41:13)
- The LORD GOD of Israel

Elohim (Genesis 1:1)
- GOD

Elohim Bashamayim (Joshua 2:11)
- GOD in Heaven

El Bethel (Genesis 35:7)
- GOD of the House of GOD

Elohe Chaseddi (Psalms 59:10)
- The GOD of My Mercy

Elohe Yisrael (Genesis 33:20)
- GOD, the GOD of Israel

El Elyon (Genesis 14:18, Daniel 3:26, Psalms 78:56)
- The Most High GOD

El Emunah (Deuteronomy 7:9)
- The Faithful GOD

El Gibbor (Isaiah 9:6)
- Mighty GOD

El Hakabodh (Psalms 29:3)
- The GOD of Glory

El Hay (Joshua 3:10, Jeremiah 23:36, Daniel 3:26)
- The Living GOD

El Hayyay (Psalms 42:8)
- GOD of My Life
Elohim Kedoshim (Joshua 24:19)
- Holy GOD

El Kanna (Exodus 20:5)
- Jealous GOD

El Kanno (Joshua 24:19)
- Jealous GOD

Elohe Mauzi (Psalms 43:2)
- GOD of My Strength

Elohim Machase Lanu (Psalms 62:8)
- GOD Our Refuge

Eli Maelekhi (Psalms 68:24)
- GOD My King

El Marom (Micah 6:6)
- GOD Most High

El Nekamoth (Psalms 18:47)
- GOD that Avengeth

El Nose (Psalms 99:8)
- GOD that Forgave

Elohenu Olam (Psalms 48:14)
- Our Everlasting GOD

Elohim Ozer Li (Psalms 54:4)
- GOD My Helper

El Rai (Genesis 16:13)
- GOD Seest Me

Elsali (Psalms 42:9)
GOD, My Rock

El Shaddai (Genesis 17:1,2, Ezekiel 10:5)
- Almighty GOD

Elohim Shophtim Ba-arets (Psalms 58:11)
- GOD that Judgeth in the Earth

El Simchath Gili (Psalms 43:4)
- GOD My Exceeding Joy

Elohim Tsebaoth (Psalms 80:7, Jeremiah 35:17&38:17)
- GOD of Hosts

Elohe Tishuathi (Psalms 18:46&51:14)
- GOD of My Salvation

Elohe Tsadeki (Psalms 4:1)
- GOD of My Righteousness

Elohe Yakob (Psalms 20:1)
- GOD of Israel

Elohe Yisrael (Psalms 59:5)
- GOD of Isreal

Jehovah (Exodus 6:2,3)
- The LORD

Adonai Jehovah (Genesis 15:2)
- Lord GOD

Jehovah Adon Kol Ha-arets (Joshua 3:11)
- The LORD, the Lord of All the Earth

Jehovah Bore (Isaiah 40:28)
- The LORD Creator

Jehovah Chereb (Deuteronomy 33:29)
- The LORD... the Sword

Jehovah Eli (Psalms 18:2)
- The LORD My GOD

Jehovah Elyon (Genesis 14:18-20)
- The LORD Most High

Jehovah Gibbor Milchamah (Psalms 24:8)
- The LORD Mighty In Battle

Jehovah Maginnenu (Psalms 89:18)
- The LORD Our Defense

Jehovah Goelekh (Isaiah 49:26&60:16)
- The LORD Thy Redeemer

Jehovah Hashopet (Judges 11:27)
- The LORD the Judge

Jehovah Hoshiah (Psalms 20:9)
- O LORD Save

Jehovah Immeka (Judges 6:12)
- The LORD Is with You

Jehovah Izuz Wegibbor (Psalms 24:8)
- The LORD Strong and Mighty

Jehovah-jireth (Genesis 22:14)
- The LORD Shall Provide

Jehovah Kabodhi (Psalms 3:3)
- The LORD My GOD

Jehovah Kanna Shemo (Exodus 34:14)
- The LORD Whose Name Is Jealous

Jehovah Keren-Yishi (Psalms 18:2)
- The LORD the Horn of My Salvation

Jehovah Machsi (Psalms 91:9)
The LORD My Refuge

Jehovah Magen (Deuteronomy 33:29)
- The LORD the Shield

Jehovah Makkeh (Ezekiel 7:9)
- The LORD that Smiteth

Jehovah Mauzzam (Psalms 37:39)
- The LORD Their Strength

Jehovah Mauzzi (Jeremiah 16:19)
- The LORD My Fortress

Ha-Melech Jehovah (Psalms 98:6)
- The LORD the King

Jehovah Melech Olam (Psalms 10:16)
- The LORD King Forever

Jehovah Mephalti (Psalms 18:2)
- The LORD My Deliverer

Jehovah Mekaddishkem (Exodus 31:13)
- The LORD that Sanctifies You

Jehovah Metsudhathi (Psalms 18:2)
- The LORD My High Tower

Jehovah Moshiekh (Isaiah 49:26&60:16)
- The LORD Your Savior

Jehovah Nissi (Exodus 17:15)
- The LORD My Banner

Jehovah Ori (Psalms 27:1)
- The LORD My Light

Jehovah Uzzi (Psalms 28:7)
- The LORD My Strength

Jehovah Rophe (Exodus 15:26)
- The LORD (our) Healer

Jehovah Roi (Psalms 23:1)
- The LORD My Shepherd

Jehovah Sabaoth (Tsebaoth) (I Samuel 1:3)
- The LORD of Hosts

Jehovah Sali (Psalms 18:2)
- The LORD My Rock

Jehovah Shalom (Judges 6:24)
- The LORD (our) Peace

Jehovah Shammah (Ezekiel 48:35)
The LORD Is There

Jehovah Tsidkenu (Jeremiah 23:6)
- The LORD Our Righteousness

Jehovah Tsuri (Psalms 19:14)
- O LORD My Strength

Saturday, 8 March 2008

Hymns

Thursday, 6 March 2008

Christian Quotes

So Mark and i had the idea of compiling some quotes from Christians who lived throughout history until the present day. If you click the pictures or leave your cursor over them it should show you who they are. I hope this is helpful and insightful for anyone passing by, and please let us know if you have any suggestions that we might want to include.

Psalm 51

Higher higher, nothing dreading,
Never, never let me stop,
In thy footsteps keep me treading,
Give me strength to reach the top.
- Smith Wigglesworth

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, the no sacrifice can be too great fr me to make for Him.
- C.T.Studd

A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning.
-Leonard Ravenhill

Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
-Leonard Ravenhill

You knew one thing about a man carrying His cross out of the city; you knew he wasn't coming back.
- A.W. Tozer

Trust and obey, there's no other way.
- Leonarrd Ravenhill

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.
- Charles Spurgeon

Of two evils, choose neither.
- Charles Spurgeon

Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and second advent splendour.
- Charles Spurgeon

We are a moment, you are forever.
- Be Unto Your Name (Hymn)

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tip-toe.
- D.L. Moody

Earth is receding; heaven is approaching. This is my crowning day.
- D.L. Moody (Last Words)

Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion, with the whole world around you damned?
- Leonard Ravenhill

We're still paddling on the edge of the ocean of the possibilities of Grace.
- Leonard Ravenhill

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the

impossible.
- William Booth

I love to live on the brink of eternity.
- David Brainerd

As long as i see anything to be done for God , life

is worth having; but o how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

- David Brainerd

The character of our

praying will determine the character of our preaching.

- E.M. Bounds

Grace is but glory begun, and

glory is but grace perfected.
- Jonathan Edwards

All roads lead to the judgement seat of Christ.
- Keith Green

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that i tried to save them.
- Keith Green

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal Godliness.
- William Carey

When Christ calls a man, he bids Him come and die.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
- Jim Eliot

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
- Richard Baxter

But the soul renounced shall reside in the boundlessness of God life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose the more we gain.
- Watchman Nee

Groanings that cannot be uttered are often prayers that cannot be refused.
- Charles Spurgeon

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting a prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
- John Wesley

The end of all being is the glory of God.
- Paris Reidhead

If sinners be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for.
- Charles Spurgeon

Oh men and women, pray through, pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until god bends the heavens and comes down.

- Reuben Archer Torrey

For God loves to be entreated, He loves to be compelled.
- Gregory Nazianzen

He that is down need fear no fall, He that is low no pride.
- John Bunyan

The voice of humility is God's music, and the silence of humility is God's rhetoric.
- Francis Quarles

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; high is the roof there, but the gate is low.
- Robert Herrick

This minute, too, is part of eternity.

- Duncan Stuart

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and

die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Charles Finney

God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
- Thomas a Kempis

He loseth nothing that loseth not God.
- George Herbert

As in paradise, God walks in scripture, seeking man.
- St. Ambrose

It was wonderful to see the change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants. From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seemed as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk through the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.
- Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1730's (on the effects of George Whitfield's preaching)

Upon a life i did not live,
Upon a death i did not die;
Another's life, another's death,
I stake my whole eternity.
- Horatius Bonar

At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ, where veil did its worst and met its match.
- John W. Wenham

Follow Him as well for the bitter cup of His passion as for the loaves.
- Jeremy Taylor

The nearer the Saviour drew to his glory, the more humility He expressed.

- Joseph Hall

Give me the love that leads the way,

The faith that nothing can dismay,
The hope no disappointments tire,
The passion that will burn like fire,
Let me not sink to be a clod,
make me thy fuel, flame of God.
- Amy Carmichael

Can we follow the Saviour far,
Who have no would or scar?
- Amy Carmichael

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
- Leonard Ravenhill

All flesh is like the grass, that withers and fades away.
- Fernando Ortega (1 Peter 1:24)

Lord, teach me what is flesh and what is spirit.
- Unknown

Death: Let losers talk: yet thou shalt die;
these arms shall crush thee.
Christian: Spare not, do thy worst.
I shall be one day better than before:

thou so much worse,
that thou shalt be no more.
- George Herbert (From 'A Dialogue-Anthem')

My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things: That I am a great sinner,and that Christ is a greatSaviour.
- Isaac Newton (on his death bed)

Only melted gold is minted.
- Smith Wigglesworth

Wednesday, 5 March 2008

e-Sword

So i had a bit of spare time today and i came across this website - http://www.e-sword.net

It's basically really good quality free bible software. I used to have QuickVerse on my old laptop which was perfectly fine (although i think you have to pay for that) but then my computer broke so i've downloaded this instead. I just thought i'd bring it to your attention because it can be quite useful for copying verse into Word or the internet without having to type them in pidgin stylee from your wrinkled KJV that insists on closing the minute you take your hand off it! Go to the downloads page if you want to download it, think they have PDA software on there as well!

God Bless.

Tuesday, 4 March 2008

Law and Grace

Here's an interesting video discussing the correct application of the Law and Grace in evangelism.

I don't really know what to say...

Man, this is the most powerful testimony i've ever heard. It makes me feel abashed, and embarrased and ashamed - like i shouldn't be hearing it.

The Emergent Church

'It used to be that faithfulness to God turned the world upside-down.
Now faithfulness to the world is turning Christianity upside down.'

- http://www.inthenameofpurpose.org/

Is this true?

Written 62 years ago but still so relevant today...

THE OLD CROSS AND THE NEW
written by A W Tozer in 1946

All unannounced and mostly undetected there has come in modern times a new cross into popular evangelical circles. It is like the old cross, but different: the likenesses are superficial; the differences, fundamental.

From this new cross has sprung a new philosophy of the Christian life, and from that new philosophy has come a new evangelical technique-a new type of meeting and a new kind of preaching. This new evangelism employs the same language as the old, but its content is not the same and its emphasis not as before.

The old cross would have no truck with the world. For Adam's proud flesh it meant the end of the journey. It carried into effect the sentence imposed by the law of Sinai. The new cross is not opposed to the human race; rather, it is a friendly pal and, if understood aright, it is the source of oceans of good clean fun and innocent enjoyment. It lets Adam live without interference. His life motivation is unchanged; he still lives for his own pleasure, only now he takes delight in singing choruses and watching religious movies instead of singing bawdy songs and drinking hard liquor. The accent is still on enjoyment, though the fun is now on a higher plane morally if not intellectually.

The new cross encourages a new and entirely different evangelistic approach. The evangelist does not demand abnegation of the old life before a new life can be received. He preaches not contrasts but similarities. He seeks to key into public interest by showing that Christianity makes no unpleasant demands; rather, it offers the same thing the world does, only on a higher level. Whatever the sin-mad world happens to be clamoring after at the moment is cleverly shown to be the very thing the gospel offers, only the religious product is better.

The new cross does not slay the sinner, it redirects him. It gears him into a cleaner and jollier way of living and saves his self-respect. To the self-assertive it says, "Come and assert yourself for Christ." To the egotist it says, "Come and do your boasting in the Lord." To the thrillseeker it says, "Come and enjoy the thrill of Christian fellowship." The Christian message is slanted in the direction of the current vogue in order to make it acceptable to the public.

The philosophy back of this kind of thing may be sincere but its sincerity does not save it from being false. It is false because it is blind. It misses completely the whole meaning of the cross.

The old cross is a symbol of death. It stands for the abrupt, violent end of a human being. The man in Roman times who took up his cross and started down the road had already said good-by to his friends. He was not coming back. He was going out to have it ended. The cross made no compromise, modified nothing, spared nothing; it slew all of the man, completely and for good. It did not try to keep on good terms with its victim. It struck cruel and hard, and when it had finished its work, the man was no more.

The race of Adam is under death sentence. There is no commutation and no escape. God cannot approve any of the fruits of sin, however innocent they may appear or beautiful to the eyes of men. God salvages the individual by liquidating him and then raising him again to newness of life.

That evangelism which draws friendly parallels between the ways of God and the ways of men is false to the Bible and cruel to the souls of its hearers. The faith of Christ does not parallel the world, it intersects it. In coming to Christ we do not bring our old life up onto a higher plane; we leave it at the cross. The corn of wheat must fall into the ground and die.

We who preach the gospel must not think of ourselves as public relations agents sent to establish good will between Christ and the world. We must not imagine ourselves commissioned to make Christ acceptable to big business, the press, the world of sports or modern education. We are not diplomats but prophets, and our message is not a compromise but an ultimatum.

God offers life, but not an improved old life. The life He offers is life out of death. It stands always on the far side of the cross. Whoever would possess it must pass under the rod. He must repudiate himself and concur in God's just sentence against him.

What does this mean to the individual, the condemned man who would find life in Christ Jesus? How can this theology be translated into life? Simply, he must repent and believe. He must forsake his sins and then go on to forsake himself. Let him cover nothing, defend nothing, excuse nothing. Let him not seek to make terms with God, but let him bow his head before the stroke of God's stern displeasure and acknowledge himself worthy to die.

Having done this let him gaze with simple trust upon the risen Saviour, and from Him will come life and rebirth and cleansing and power. The cross that ended the earthly life of Jesus now puts an end to the sinner; and the power that raised Christ from the dead now raises him to a new life along with Christ.

To any who may object to this or count it merely a narrow and private view of truth, let me say God has set His hallmark of approval upon this message from Paul's day to the present. Whether stated in these exact words or not, this has been the content of all preaching that has brought life and power to the world through the centuries. The mystics, the reformers, the revivalists have put their emphasis here, and signs and wonders and mighty operations of the Holy Ghost gave witness to God's approval.

Dare we, the heirs of such a legacy of power, tamper with the truth? Dare we with our stubby pencils erase the lines of the blueprint or alter the pattern shown us in the Mount? May God forbid. Let us preach the old cross and we will know the old power. (by A.W. Tozer. This article first appeared in The Alliance Witness in 1946).

No sacrifice too great...

Oh thou who camest from above,
The pure celestial flame to impart,
Kindle a fire of sacred love
On the mean altar of my heart.
There let it for thy Glory burn
With inextinguishable blaze,
Then trembling to the source return,
In humble prayer and fervent praise.

Jesus, confirm my heart’s desire,
To work and speak and think for thee,
Still let me guard this holy fire,
And still stir up thy gifts in me.
Ready for all thy perfect will,
My acts of faith and love repeat,
‘till death thy endless mercies seal,
and make my sacrifice complete.

Charles Wesley

Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in his wonderful face,
And the things of the world will grow strangely dim,
In the light of his Glory and Grace.

Helen H Lemmel

Only one life,
will soon be past;
Only what's done
For Christ will last;

And when I am dying,
How glad I will be
That the lamp of my life
Has been burned out for Thee.

Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,
Till released from flesh and sin,
Yet from what I do inherit,
Here Thy praises I'll begin;
Here I raise my Ebenezer;
Here by Thy great help I’ve come;
And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,
Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God;
He, to rescue me from danger,
Interposed His precious blood;
How His kindness yet pursues me
Mortal tongue can never tell,
Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me
I cannot proclaim it well.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,
I shall see Thy lovely face;
Clothed then in blood washed linen
How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;
Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,
Take my ransomed soul away;
Send thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless day.

Rumniations

Take a look at the first picture- the painting. Good right? I know nothing about painting but it's got nice realistic colours, it's all in perspective and basically isn't a toilet with a dead goat sitting on it. I think most people would agree, it's nice. Oh who created it? A guy called Willard Leroy Metcalf apparently (thanks Wikipedia).

Now have a shifty at the second picture; the photo. That was taken in Switzerland a couple of years ago. It's not bad am i right? Clear sky save the dusting of cloud upon the mountaintops; snow filled heights flowing down into sparse, shocking green shrubbery. Wow. You can almost taste the air (i can even remember it.) It's beautiful right? Oh who created it? Erm actually that wasn't created, yeah no it er actually just popped out of nowhere...yeah i know funny story actually...

'Earth and the other planets in the Solar System formed 4.54 billion years ago out of the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left over from the formation of the Sun. Initially molten, the outer layer of the planet Earth cooled to form a solid crust when water began accumulating in the atmosphere.' (Wikipedia)

It may be just me, and actually i know for a fact that certainly in this country my view is in the minority - but it don't feel right somehow. It doesn't wash with me. I don't have all the answers - but i know that chance cannot explain the world i see around me. Let me know your thoughts…