... and I have met people who claim to have been born again, who claim to have experienced God's grace in their lives, who will tell you they have been washed in the blood of the Lamb, but they are angry and bitter and lacking in both compassion and ... to be chased but not to be caught, and if the cat insisted on being caught, then the dog was most embarrassed. "Too often," says Dale Oldham, "we have pursued the Kingdom of God in this same spirit. We have cried out in a burst of enthusiasm so long as we have been ...
... sermon (see on 4:38). His reaction to the subsequent catch shows that he did not attribute it to natural causes. 5:8 Simon Peter. Luke will mention that Jesus gave Simon his nickname (6:14), but he does not record when it was given (cf. Matt. 16:18; John 1:42), and ... rarely equaled.” Among these individuals who gave up their early ambitions were C. T. Studd, John B. Mott, Joseph H. Oldham, and Stanley E. Jones.2 Literature: The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien. In this fantasy tale, which comes before ...
... her feelings as she saw the hearse in front of her neighbor’s house. She wrote, “The silent witness of that body on the stretcher will haunt us for a long time. Could any of us honestly say we cared for Ada’s soul? That’s why I think we three ... his love, his joy, his peace, that we might fully bear the kind of fruit that he calls us to bear.] 1. Kelly Oldham, Today’s Christian Woman, May/June 1996, p. 25. 2. Tony Campolo, “Knowing God,” http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/campolo_4104.htm. 3 ...
