mim {no longer} en belgique: Happy New Year

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Happy New Year

And why can we, as Christians, say that it is a "Happy New Year"?

Two reasons from our vicar this morning:

Because God is making us more like Jesus, so this time next year we will be more like Jesus than we are now.
Because we are a year closer to Heaven, and to the return of Jesus. Each day that passes is a day closer to meeting Him.

So Happy New Year!

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"the path of your feet should never contradict the convictions of your heart"

"Heal my heart and make it clean, open up my eyes to the things unseen, show me how to love like you have loved me. Break my heart for what breaks yours, everything I am for your kingdom's cause." - Hosanna: Hillsong

"Live so as to be missed" - Robert Murray M'Cheyne

"hallelujah! i'm caving in. hallelujah! i'm in love again. hallelujah! i'm a wretched man. hallelujah! every breath is a second chance. and it is always yours. and i am always yours." - switchfoot: always

"There was a day when I died, utterly died: died to George Muller, his opinions, preferences, tastes and will; died to the world, its approval or censure; died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends. And since then, I have studied only to show myself 'approved unto God.'" - George Muller

"For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified." - 1 Cor 2:2

" Is how we’re spending our time now preparing us for what we want to become? Are we doing hard things now that will equip us for greater things God may have for us in the future? These are the fundamental questions for this season of our lives." Becoming Men: Feats of Our Forefathers by Alex & Brett Harris (http://www.therebelution.com/)

"Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 74:25-26

"Whatever season of life you're in is a unique opportunity to share the gospel with others in the same season. Don't waste it!" - Josh Harris

"Better to love God and die unknown than to love the world and be a hero; better to be content with poverty, than to die a slave to wealth; better to have taken some risks and lost than to have done nothing and succeeded at it." - E. Lutzer

"There is no pit so deep but Christ is deeper still." - Corrie Ten Boom

"Remember the day when God forgot your sin, Remember the way that joy came tumbling in. There will be times when you cannot find a reason to stand and sing. But let this remind you time after time, you're a child of the King." - All of the above - Mercyme

"Love your enemy. Pray for those who abuse you. Lay your life down for the world. Don't kill in order to spread the gospel, but die to spread it." - John Piper

"How much do you have to hate someone to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them?" - anonymous

"Before you marry you must look them in the eye and say you are number two. If that is not sweet joy to them then don't marry them." - John Piper

"Stamp ETERNITY on my eyeballs!" - Jonathan Edwards

"What is the secret to great living? Entire separation to Christ and devotion to Him. Thus speaks every man and woman whose life has made more than a passing flicker in the spiritual realm. It is the life that has no time for trifling that counts." - Amy Carmichael

"He (Jesus) is not merely the rope that pulls us from the threatening waves; He is the solid beach under our feet, and the air in our lungs, and the beat of our heart, the warm sun on our skin, the song in our ears, the arms of our beloved." - John Piper

"It is only in death that we are really known ... Any man may make himself grand in life and any man may appear insignificant in life. But death is the great leveler. Death has a way of drawing out the truth. With death comes the passage of time and through it, a more trustworthy assessment." - Tim Challies

"...what man fears is not that death is annihilation, but that it is not; that the horror of death is not extinction but ‘the wrath to come." Epicurus via. Alan Richardson

"Our motive for mission is not to help improve a Jesus-dishonoring world nor to attack it. Our motive is to see Jesus honored, though our own hearts will be broken." - Ray Ortlund

"La femma lui dit: Je sais que le Messie doit venir (celui qu'on appelle Christ; quand il sera venu, il nous annoncera toutes choses. Jésus dit: je le suis, moi qui te parle." - Jean 4:25-26

"Seigneur, à qui irions-nous? Tu as les les paroles de la vie éternelle. Et nous, nous croyons et nous savons que tu es le Messie, le Fils de Dieu vivant." - Jean 6:68-69

"the good news that our sins are forgiven because of Christ's death fills our hearts with joy, gives us courage to face the day, and offers us hope that God s favour will rest upon us, not because we are good, but because we are in Christ." - one amazing friend and Disciplines of Grace by jerry bridges

"Prone to wander, prone to leave the God I love
O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I’m constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,
Seal it for Thy courts above."
-Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, Robert Robertson

The bride eyes not her garment,
But her dear bridegroom's face,
I will not gaze at glory,
But on my King of Grace,
Not at the crown He giveth,
But on pierced hand,
The Lamb is all the glory,
Of Immanuel's Land.
-The Sands of Time Are Sinking, Samuel Rutherford

May God bless us with discomfort at easy answers, half-truths, and superficial relationships - so that we may live deep within our hearts. May God bless us with anger at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people - so that we may work for justice, freedom, and peace. May God bless us with tears to shed for those who suffer pain, rejection, hunger, and war - so that we may reach out our hand to comfort them and to turn their pain into joy. And may God bless us with enough foolishness to believe that we can make a difference in the world - so that we can do what others claim cannot be done, to bring justice and kindness to all our children and the poor.
Amen. (Franciscan Benediction)

"I'm well aware that you don't care what I know, until you know that I care" - RJ Mason :)

"For God alone oh my soul, wait in silence
for my hope is from Him.
He is my only rock and my salvation,
my fortress.
I shall not be shaken.
On God rests my salvation, my glory,
my mighty rock, my refuge is God.
Trust in him at all times people,
pour your heart out before him,
God is a refuge for us."
-Lecrae - Far Away

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Happy New Year

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