Tuesday, October 30, 2007

The Prayer of A Soul Winner


The 150th anniversary of the Fulton Street Revival reminds us of that the key to reaching the lost is prayer. This second message in a three part series examines what it means to pray to the Lord of the Harvest.

    Sunday, October 21, 2007

    The Heart of a Soul-Winner


    The first in a three part series looking at how we can partner with God in the great harvest of the elect. This message from Matthew 9:35-37 deals with developing the compassion Jesus had for the lost by seeing people as He saw them.



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      Wednesday, October 17, 2007

      A Right Brain - Left Brain Test

      Click on image to start test...then return to this page.

      Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
      If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

      Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

      LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
      uses logic
      detail oriented
      facts rule
      words and language
      present and past
      math and science
      can comprehend
      knowing
      acknowledges
      order/pattern perception
      knows object name
      reality based
      forms strategies
      practical
      safe

      RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
      uses feeling
      "big picture" oriented
      imagination rules
      symbols and images
      present and future
      philosophy & religion
      can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
      believes
      appreciates
      spatial perception
      knows object function
      fantasy based
      presents possibilities
      impetuous
      risk taking

      I see it going clockwise, although with effort I can get it to reverse.

      HT: Perth Now

        Sunday, October 14, 2007

        The Return of Sunday Spurgeon

        “All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.” (Job 14:14)

        You will observe, also, dear Friends, that Job very wisely speaks of the “days” of our appointed time. It is a prudent thing to forbear the burden of life as a whole and learn to bear it in the parcels into which Providence has divided it. Let us live as life comes, namely, by the day. Our God does not trust us with so much life as a month at once—we live as the clock ticks—a second at a time. Is not that a wiser method of living rather than to perplex our heads by living by the month, or by the year? You have no promise for the year—the Word of Mercy runs, “As your days your strength shall be.” You are not commanded to pray for supplies by the year, but, “Give us this day our daily bread.”

        Said a good man to me the other day who had many troubles, who has borne them manfully to my knowledge, for these 15 or 20 years, when I asked him how his patience had held out—“Ah,” he said, “I said to my afflicted wife the other day when the coals came in, ‘It takes several big fellows to bring in the sacks, but yet our little kitchen maid, Mary, has brought the whole ton up from the cellar into our parlor. But she has done it a scuttle-full at a time. She has as surely moved those tons of coal as ever did the wagons when they brought them in, but she has moved them little by little, and done it easily.’ ”

        This is how to bear the troubles of life—a day’s portion at a time. Wave by wave our trials come and let us breast them one by one and not attempt to buffet the whole ocean’s billows at once. Let us stand as the brave old Spartan did, in the Thermopylae of the day, and fight the Persians as they come on one by one. Thus shall we keep our adversities at bay and overcome them as they advance in single file. But let us not venture into the plain amidst the innumerable hordes of Persians or we shall speedily be swallowed up and our faith and patience will be overcome.


          Wednesday, October 10, 2007

          The Great Multitude


          A World-Wide Communion Sunday message from Revelation 7 that offers seven reasons why the Church can rejoice today.




          Sunday, October 07, 2007

          Life of David (2)


          This continuing study begins a 2 part-look at the familiar story of David and Goliath.


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            Tuesday, October 02, 2007

            Life of David (1)


            The first in a series on the life of David. Our goal is to understand what it takes to become people after God's own heart. This study looks at the annointing of David and his service in Saul's court.


              The Heart Has Its Reasons

              Third in a three part series on The Greatest Commandment from Matthew 22:34-40. This message looks at what it means to love God with all your heart.