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Archive for June 2nd, 2010
Shepherds Always Lead from the Front
From Tim Witmer’s book, The Shepherd Leader- Achieving Effective Shepherding in Your Church… “The story is told about a group of tourists in Israel who had been informed by their Israeli tour guide, after observing a flock and their shepherd, that shepherds always lead their flocks from the front. He told his attentive listeners that ...
Notable Quote: Martin Luther
By using the relationship between father and son as an analogy, Martin Luther explains justification . . . A son is born an heir, is not made one, and inherits his father’s goods without any work or merit. Meanwhile, however, the father commands and exhorts his son to be diligent in doing this or that. ...
Adversity, The Teacher
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. (Psalm 119.67, 71) Jeremiah Burroughs, Moses His Choice, With His Eye Fixed Upon Heaven, p. 53: They that are afflicted, do better understand Scripture, says ...