A Thought for Today 31-05-2011

Tobit 12:6

Bless God, utter his praise before all the living for all the favours he has given you. Bless and extol his name. Proclaim before all men the deeds of God as they deserve, and never tire of giving him thanks.

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.
(Arnold H. Glasgow)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQCI0gGwHD4

A Thought for Today 30-05-2011

Colossians 2:9,12

In Christ lives the fullness of divinity, and in him you too find your own fulfilment. You have been buried with him, when you were baptised; and by baptism, too, you have been raised up with him through your belief in the power of God who raised him from the dead.

You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
(Ravi Zacharias)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ykm1v9xbU

A Thought for Today 27-05-2011

Hebrews 5:8-10

Christ, although he was the Son, learnt to obey through suffering; but having been made perfect, he became for all who obey him the source of eternal salvation and was acclaimed by God with the title of high priest of the order of Melchizedek.

"Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is."
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhRj8GgfV20&feature=related

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyr3y5Sof9c&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 26-05-2011

John 15:9-11

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘As the Father has loved me,

so I have loved you.

Remain in my love.

If you keep my commandments

you will remain in my love,

just as I have kept my Father’s commandments

and remain in his love.

I have told you this

so that my own joy may be in you

and your joy be complete.’

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.
(David Frost)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLr6G8Xy5uc

A Thought for Today 25-05-2011

Ephesians 4:23-24

Let your spirits be renewed so that you can put on the new self that has been created in God’s way, in the goodness and holiness of the truth.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
(Albert Pike)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqrqPGt11bA

A Thought for Today 24-05-2011

John 14:27-31

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you,

a peace the world cannot give,

this is my gift to you.

Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.

You heard me say: I am going away, and shall return.

If you loved me you would have been glad to know that I am going to the Father,

for the Father is greater than I.

I have told you this now before it happens,

so that when it does happen you may believe.

I shall not talk with you any longer,

because the prince of this world is on his way.

He has no power over me,

but the world must be brought to know

that I love the Father

and that I am doing exactly what the Father told me.’

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
(Phyllis McGinley)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut2mdvgabwE&feature=related

A Thought for Today 23-05-2011

Apocalypse 1:17-18

I saw the Son of Man, and he said to me, ‘Have no fear! I am the First and the Last. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld.’

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
(T.S. Eliot)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfqUN7Uz1os&feature=related

A Thought for Today 20-05-2011

Acts 2:32,36

God raised this man Jesus to life, and all of us are witnesses to that. For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.

"But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared."
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35iRA37TqgQ

Weekly Blessing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_nAzxq0fBw&feature=player_embedded

A Thought for Today 19-05-2011

Romans 8:10-11

Though your body may be dead it is because of sin, but if Christ is in you then your spirit is life itself because you have been justified; and if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, then he who raised Jesus from the dead will give life to your own mortal bodies through his Spirit living in you.

"There is no greater discovery than seeing God as the author of your destiny."
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0ykm1v9xbU

A Thought for Today 18-05-2011

Romans 4:24-25

We believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us.

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. ...works have a place--but as a demonstration of having received God's forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kC3r_poOl8&feature=related

A Thought for Today 17-05-2011

Isaiah 55:1

Oh, come to the water all you who are thirsty;

though you have no money, come!

Buy corn without money, and eat,

and, at no cost, wine and milk.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
(Mother Theresa)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diaHnF-zfEg&feature=related

A Thought for Today 16-05-2011

Apocalypse 1:17-18

I saw the Son of Man, and he said to me, ‘Have no fear! I am the First and the Last. I was dead and now I am to live for ever and ever, and I hold the keys of death and of the underworld.’

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
(Eleanor Roosevelt)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po3k6sPHeX0

A Thought for Today 12-05-2011

Colossians 1:12-14

We thank the Father who has made it possible for us to share in the saints’ inheritance of light. He has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves. In him, we gain our freedom and the forgiveness of our sins.

The single most important thread in working through your disappointments is that your heart and mind ponder and grasp what the cross of Jesus Christ is all about. There is no pattern without the cross. There is no Good News without it. That is what the gospel is all about.
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3F9z54g30Eo

A Thought for Today 11-05-2011

1 John 5:5-6

Who can overcome the world? Only the man who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus Christ came by water and blood: not with water only, but with water and blood.

Pure morality points you to the purest one of all. When impure, it points you to yourself. The purer your habits, the closer to God you will come. Moralizing from impure motives takes you away from God.
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2tA_oJkR6M

A Thought for Today 10-05-2011

Acts 4:11-12

This is the stone rejected by you the builders, but which has proved to be the keystone. For of all the names in the world given to men, this is the only one by which we can be saved.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, "I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge."
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftgp2tiv_nU&feature=related

A Thought for Today 05-05-2011

John 3:31-36

John the Baptist said to his disciples:

‘He who comes from above is above all others;

he who is born of the earth is earthly himself

and speaks in an earthly way.

He who comes from heaven

bears witness to the things he has seen and heard,

even if his testimony is not accepted;

though all who do accept his testimony

are attesting the truthfulness of God,

since he whom God has sent

speaks God’s own words:

God gives him the Spirit without reserve.

The Father loves the Son

and has entrusted everything to him.

Anyone who believes in the Son has eternal life,

but anyone who refuses to believe in the Son will never see life:

the anger of God stays on him.’

A man rejects God neither because of intellectual demands nor because of the scarcity of evidence. A man rejects God because of a moral resistance that refuses to admit his need for God.
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgcrLcTa8VE

A Thought for Today 04-05-2011

Romans 4:24-25

We believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ275gdK5Rw&feature=related

A Thought for Today 03-05-2011

Acts 5:41-42

The apostles left the presence of the Sanhedrin glad to have had the honour of suffering humiliation for the sake of the name. They preached every day both in the Temple and in private houses, and their proclamation of the Good News of Christ Jesus was never interrupted.

"Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer."
(Ravi Zacharias)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWnrUgzlHyQ