02.29.08

Swan Song …

Posted in Bruce at 12:00 pm by ebenezer

It seems appropriate that today should be my last at this blogsite because February 29 only occurs every four years. February 29 is the only true odd day of years. When you have your birthday on February 29 you are not sure when to celebrate the day. Do you celebrate on the 28th / on the 1st / or just every four years on the 29th? It is an awkward decision to make. Yet as awkward as it is the decision must be made.

I have decided to move to another host site. I have renamed the blog  “Pilgrim’s Keyboard” located at:  www.pilgrimskeyboard.blogspot.com.

I have enjoyed the interaction among some of the bloggers here with reformedblogs.com. I trust you will come by the new site  |  still under some on-going construction  |  and visit for awhile.  

Bruce

02.07.08

Trust

Posted in Quotes - Some Famous | Some Not So Famous at 1:12 pm by ebenezer

Hebrews 2:13

I will put my trust in Him.

If you put your trust in banks you could lose all your money. If you put your trust in Christ you will gain everything.

02.05.08

Spirituality and the Holy Spirit’s Work

Posted in Quotes - Some Famous | Some Not So Famous at 8:46 am by ebenezer

SPIRITUALITY AND THE HOLY SPIRIT’S WORK
If we ask the New Testament authors, “What is the nature of the Spirit’s work?” we receive a plethora of information. It is the Holy Spirit, for example, who is the one who makes God’s love real for us–”God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 5:5). In a sense, it is he who stands at the threshold of the Christian life, for only he can enable us to embrace Christ as Savior and Lord–”no one can say, “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit” (1 Cor. 12:3). Then, it is the Spirit who gives us the boldness to come into the presence of the awesome and almighty Maker of heaven and earth and call him “Dear Father”–”God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’” (Gal. 4:6). It is the Spirit who enables believers, from various racial, social and religious backgrounds, to find true unity in Christ and together worship God (Eph. 2:18). In fact, without the Spirit, worship and the glorification of Jesus Christ cannot take place (Phil. 3:3). And it is the Spirit who is the true Guarantor of orthodoxy (2 Tim. 1:14).

An excellent summary statement of the range of the Spirit’s work is Galatians 5:25, which speaks so plainly about the Spirit as the Source from which we are to live our lives: “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” The Spirit thus undergirds and empowers the entirety of our lives as Christians. To paraphrase John 15:5: apart from the Holy Spirit, we can do nothing of any true eternal value.

–Michael A. G. Haykin, THE GOD WHO DRAWS NEAR: AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLICAL SPIRITUALITY, Webster, NY: Evangelical Press USA, 2007, xix-xx. ISBN-13 978-0-85234-638-9. www.evangelicalpress.org

[Gleaned from WQOTW@wqotw.org, downloaded 02/05/08]