-
Encouraging Message Series for Young Believers
-
Tag Archives: silence
Charles Spurgeon’s MORNING AND EVENING: APRIL 2
MORNING “He answered him to never a word.” Matthew 27:14 He had never been slow of speech when he could bless the sons of men, but he would not say a single word for himself. “Never man spake like this … Continue reading
Posted in Devotions, Morning and Evening
Tagged 2021, answered, april 2, bottomed, calm endurance, charles spurgeon, Christ, Christianity, dedicated, defencelessness, desires, devotional, eloquence, eternal faithfulness, fulfilment, God, God's promise, God's Son, grounded, human guilt, Jesus, lord, love the Lord, martyrs, morning and evening, neglect, offering, patient, pleasure, pleasure of the Lord, pray, promise, prosper, questions, sacred, seed, self sacrifice, silence, silent, sin, slaughter, slow of speech, sons of men, speechless, surrendered, uncomplaining, unstruggling
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: DECEMBER 13
On silence [The demon Screwtape writes:] Music and silence—how I detest them both! How thankful we should be that ever since our Father entered Hell—though longer ago than humans, reckoning in light years, could express—no square inch of infernal space … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged abominable forces, c s lewis, demon, despair, earth, expression, exultant, grand dynamism, heaven, hell, humans, impossible desires, infernal space, infernal time, light years, loud, melodies, music, noise, ruthless, screwtape, silence, silences, silly qualms, the screwtape letters, universe, virile
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: NOVEMBER 11
On God The voice of God indeed daily calls to us; calls to the world to abandon sins and seek the Kingdom of God wholeheartedly. O that we may all hear the call of the Father and, sometime, at last … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged c s lewis, converted, daily calls, eternal truths, Father, God, greater love, kingdom of God, lord, meditation, seek God, silence, sins, voice of God
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: OCTOBER 11
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as “what a man does with his solitude.” It was one of the Wesleys, I think, who said that the New Testament knows nothing of solitary religion. … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged alcinous, alone, apathy, arete, Augustine, body of Christ, bourgeois, busybodies, c s lewis, charlotte m yonge, Christianity, christians, church, collectivism, dangerous, destruction, institutional, leisure, life, masters of ceremonies, meditation, members, modern world, natural, new testament, odyssey, paradoxical, privacy, private life, religion, religious, rostovs, scipio, silence, solitary religion, solitude, the weight of glory, traherne, true friendship, vaughan, waking up, war and peace, wesleys, wordsworth, young people, youth
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 16
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: Why has no one told me these things? How easily I might have misjudged another man in the same situation? I might have said, ‘He’s got over it. He’s forgotten his wife,’ … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged a grief observed, c s lewis, cry, cry for help, death, desperate, drowning, frantic need, God, grief, help, joy davidman, misjudged, nothing, silence, soul, tears
Leave a comment
C. S. LEWIS DAILY: JUNE 6
Lewis, grieving the death of his wife, Joy: Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted … Continue reading
Posted in C. S. Lewis Daily, Devotions
Tagged a grief observed, absent, believe, c s lewis, Christ, danger, death, desperate, disquieting, empty house, forsaken, God, gratitude, grieving, happy, help, interruption, joy davidman, need, open arms, praise, present, prosperity, silence, trouble, vain, welcomed, where is God
Leave a comment
DAILY HOPE: MARCH 16
Do You Have a Safety Net? “Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble” (1 Peter 3:8 NIV). As a pastor, I see situations daily that nobody should ever have to go through … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Hope, Devotions
Tagged advice, alone, believers, build up, christians, committed, community, compassionate, crisis, daily hope, despair, difficult, difficult times, encourage, friendships, God, God's plan, good times, hard times, humble, inevitable, life, like minded, love one another, mourn, paul, pep talk, rejoice, rick warren, safety net, silence, suffer, sympathetic, tough times, tragedies, unprepared, waiting, weeping, words of wisdom
Leave a comment