True sacrifice is merely self-control.
David W. StevensStichwörter: inspirational personal-growth christian-living
Doesn't the expansiveness of this make you think of the good Lord? Except we know the ocean ends while He goes on forever.
Mindy Starns ClarkStichwörter: inspirational christian-living
Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
Wanda E. BrunstetterStichwörter: inspirational life-lessons christian-living
If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.
Wanda E. BrunstetterStichwörter: inspirational-quotes christian-living
One day you will wonder what was so important that you put off doing the most important things. 'Someday' can be a thief in the night.
Deborah BrownStichwörter: christian-living someday deborah-brown kelly-brown scott-brown
We also wish warmly to affirm those sisters and brothers, already in membership with orthodox churches, who - while experiencing same-sex desires and feelings - nevertheless battle with the rest of us, in repentance and faith, for a lifestyle that affirms marriage [between a man and woman] and celibacy as the two given norms for sexual expression. There is room for every kind of background and past sinful experience among members of Christ's flock as we learn the way of repentance and renewed lives, for "such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God" (1 Corinthians 6:11).
This is true inclusivity.
Stichwörter: sex homosexuality christian-living
There is, however, one way of speaking that I've tried to avoid. Rather than refer to someone as "a homosexual," I've taken care always to make "gay" or "homosexual" the adjective, and never the noun, in a longer phrase, such as "gay Christian" or "homosexual person." In this way, I hope to send a subtle linguistic signal that being gay isn't the most important thing about my or any other gay person's identity. I am a Christian before I am anything else. My homosexuality is a part of my makeup, a facet of my personality. One day, I believe, whether in this life or in the resurrection, it will fade away. But my identity as a Christian - someone incorporated into Christ's body by his Spirit - will remain.
Wesley HillStichwörter: identity homosexuality christian-living
I know that whatever the complex origins of my own homosexuality are, there have been conscious choices I've made to indulge - and therefore to intensify, probably - my homoerotic inclinations. As I look back over the course of my life, I regret the nights I have given in to temptations to lust that pulsed like hot, itching sores in my mind. And so I cling to this image - washed. I am washed, sanctified, justified through the work of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Whenever I look back on my baptism, I can remember that God has cleansed the stains of homosexual sin from the crevasses of my mind, heart, and body and included me in his family, the church, where I can find support, comfort, and provocation toward Christian maturity.
Wesley HillStichwörter: temptation homosexuality christian-living
Overcomers are not perfect. They fail just like the rest of us, but they keep on getting up, keep on repenting, and keep on being willing to surrender themselves to Christ and letting Him, who is the only perfect One, work through them.
Nancy MisslerStichwörter: christian-living
Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one
A.W. TozerStichwörter: christian-living
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