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Two Quotes and a Scripture

October 9, 2010 by Fritz

Madison Park, CNN, 10/04/10

“From Dr. Spock to Annette Funicello, growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, we grew up thinking we were special. Somehow, we metamorphosed from peace, love and happiness to a me generation.”

“We started accumulating wealth and began focusing on providing for ourselves and our families. That’s what we did and now, we’re beginning to look around. What’s it all about?” he said. “Many of us are divorced. Our families are spread to the seven winds. We’re disappointed.”1

Jim Elliott, evangelical Christian missionary to Ecuador, October 28, 1949

“He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose”2

The Apostle Paul, Galatians 6:7 (King James Version)

“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

Something, today, to think about.

– fritz

1 – Are once-happy boomers behind rise in midlife suicide, Madison Park, CNN, October 4, 2010 8:23 a.m. EDTCNN http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/10/04/baby.boomer.suicides/
2 – Wheaton College archives

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Take My Life

October 8, 2010 by Fritz

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.” – John 6:37

‘ Take my life !’ We have said it or sung it before the Lord, it may be many times; but if it were only once whispered in His ear with full purpose of heart, should we not believe that He heard it? And if we know that He heard it, should we not believe that He has answered it, and fulfilled this, our heart’s desire?

Why should we doubt that He did verily take our lives when we offered them—our bodies when we presented them?”

– Frances Ridley Havergal, author of the hymn, “Take My Life and Let it Be”1


1 – Kept for the master’s Use, 1882, pg. 5

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>God speaks, we can hear.

October 7, 2010 by Fritz

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“Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you” – 2nd Corinthians 12:8-9a
Lennon’s tomb, 11:00 at night during the changing of the guard, a Russian, a friend, and I discussed the vast changes taking place. Seventy years communism has prevented open discussion about God and all that had changed. As we left we told this man we would pray for him and his response caught us off guard, “You mean, you can talk to God?!”

But that is exactly the point and privilege we have in Christ – we talk to God, he hears, and he talks to us. Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice”1

– fritz


1 – John 10:27

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