| Author | Message | ||
| Nowisee Registered user Username: Nowisee Post Number: 480 Registered: 5-2009 |
Some pertinent thoughts that will resonate with us:
from "All of Grace", p. 14-15. | ||
| River Registered user Username: River Post Number: 6548 Registered: 9-2006  |
Great piece. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 11579 Registered: 12-2003  |
Thank you, Nowisee. That is SO good. Colleen | ||
| Bskillet Registered user Username: Bskillet Post Number: 738 Registered: 8-2008 |
Beautiful. I like this. | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 2092 Registered: 4-2000  |
Great quote, Nowisee, from the "prince of preachers." Spurgeon further stated: "The Lord must have loved me before I was born, or else He would not have seen anything in me to love afterwards." In the 1940s, Oscar Eliason wrote and sang, "My heart is stirred whenever I think of Jesus, no name on earth has meant so much to me." Bill and Gloria Gaither later added: "Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, there is just something about that name." And all God's people said, "amen." Dennis Fischer | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 3345 Registered: 10-2004  |
Amen!  | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 8452 Registered: 3-2004  |
AMEN!!!!!! Diana | ||
| Dennis Registered user Username: Dennis Post Number: 2098 Registered: 4-2000 |
A Needy or Extravagant God? What kind of God do you have? A needy God who created out of a need (showing our importance), or an extravagant God who loves and rules sovereignly? Dennis Fischer | ||
| Flyinglady Registered user Username: Flyinglady Post Number: 8467 Registered: 3-2004 |
My God is an extravagant god who loves and rules sovereighnly. Diana L | ||
| Martinc Registered user Username: Martinc Post Number: 159 Registered: 9-2006 |
Good statement, Dennis. It's amazing how people could have read the Mars Hill sermon, or John 1, or any of Isaiah, and think that God needs anything, or has to save us to prove Satan wrong. I used to believe in that dung heap. He is wildly extravagant, and sovereign beyond our imaginations. | ||
| Heretic Registered user Username: Heretic Post Number: 288 Registered: 2-2005 |
"Definition of Aseity- God is self-existent, God has always been. Our Maker exists in an eternal, self-sustaining, necessary way necessary, that is, in the sense that God does not have it in Him to go out of existence, just as we do not have it in us to live forever. We necessarily age and die, because it is our present nature to do that; God necessarily continues forever unchanged, because it is His eternal nature to do that. This is one of many contrasts between creature and Creator. (Packer, J.I., Concise Theology, 26)" Even though He didn't have to, praise God that He chose to display his mercy and justice, that some may spend eternity with Him. |
