Saturday, November 19, 2011

Christmas Wish List


1. “Civilization” by Niall Ferguson
2. “The Kingdom New Testament” by N.T. Wright
3. "Bully" by Rick Marschall
4. “Death of Kings” by Bernard Cornwell 
5. "Steve Jobs" by Walter Isaacson
6. “Holidays in Heck” by P.J. O’Rourke
7. "Thomas Manton" by Derek Cooper
8. “Songs in the Night" by Mike Milton
9. “King Rat” by China Mieville
10. "Columbus and the Quest for Jerusalem" by Carol Delaney
11. “Justification” by N.T. Wright

Friday, November 11, 2011

Favorite Quotes on Prayer


1. "Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work." Oswald Chambers.

2. “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer" E.M. Bounds

3. "Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers." J. Sidlow Baxter

4. "Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still." E.M. Bounds

5. "Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees." William Cowper

6. “The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying.  He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.” Samuel Chadwick

 7. “I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.”  Charles Spurgeon

8. “To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them." John Calvin

9. "If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ." C. H. Spurgeon

10. "The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong." E. M. Bounds

11. "Prayer should be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, and the growth of our growing.  Prayer is length without end, width without bounds, height without top, and depth without bottom; illimitable in its breadth, exhaustless in height, fathomless in depths, and infinite in extension.  Oh, for determined men and women who will rise early and really burn for God.  Oh for a faith that will sweep into heaven with the early dawning of morning and have ships from a shoreless sea loaded in the soul's harbor ere the ordinary laborer has knocked the dew from the scythe or the lackluster has turned from his pallet of straw to spread nature's treasures of fruit before the early buyers.  Oh, for such.” Homer W. Hodge