Thought For the Week

Dear Friends, Everyone (I assume) has a “favorite” Christian quote. Over the years I have collected and memorized many! So, today, I simply typed in my search engine “Favorite Christian Quotes” to see which one’s other people liked best and share them with you – assuming, of course, that if they spoke to others they might also speak to you. If you have one that you found extremely helpful, and is not included here, I would like to know what it is, and ask that you might take a moment at the end to pass it along to me. Thanks! Enjoy. “Please do not feel you have the right to judge me simply because I sin differently than you.” Anonymous “The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you discover why.” Mark Twain "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “The proper understanding of everything in life begins with...

Dear Friends, Sometimes you come across a story that sticks with you. This particular true story was one I read in 1897 and still remember today. Therefore, I thought I would share it with you. It comes from a book entitled “He Touched Me” by John Powell. Powell was a professor and counsellor at Loyola University in Chicago, with degrees in Psychology, the Classics, and Theology, and at the time when the events of this story transpired he was going through some inner struggles himself – events he chronicles in another book, “Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am?” At that time a lady came to him for counselling – who in the end changed his outlook on counselling. This is her story, and one that changed him. Enjoy. “A neurotic friend was weaving in and out of my life a few years ago. Each time we met there was the same neurotic whine, the same indecision, the same egocentric focus that is born out of deeply embedded pain from past trauma. It became clear that after many counsellin...

Dear Friends, As some of you may have guessed, I am a collector of quotes. Every book I’ve read has sentences underlined, paragraphs circled, arrows leading to comments in the margins, or various colors of highlighters making it easy to go back and find quotes I consider helpful. In fact, I’ve incorporated many of them into my faith-walk, even memorizing them, so I can have them ‘available’ to share with others. So, today, I offer you many that altered my perspective and have ever since become an ongoing part of my personal outlook. Maybe you will find one or two in the many below that will become like that for you. I offer many in the hope you can find at least one for yourself. Enjoy. “The Gospel is this: ‘We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.’” Tim Keller “Preach the gospel to yourself every day.” Jerry Bridges "Your worst days are never s...