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Welcome To The Brand New Month of July- 2010

Welcome To The Brand New Month of June- 2010

Theme for the month - “Communal Evangelism"

 

 

Key Verse for the Month

 

And HE said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature (Mark 16:15)

 

Song for the Month

 

Sing a song, spread some cheer,

There are sad and lonely people ev'rywhere;

Be a friend, show some love,

It will lift them from the dungeons of despair.

 

Show a little bit of love and kindness,

Never go along with hatred's blindness,

Take a little time to reach for joy, and wear a happy face;

Sing a little bit when the days are dreary,

Give a little help to a friend who's weary-

That's the way to make the world a happy place!

 

Offer help, bring some hope,

To the fainting and discouraged on life's road;

See a need, lend a hand,

There are many who are crushed beneath their load.

 

Be a light, show the way,

Be a light within the night for those astray;

Speak a word, loving word,

That will bring them back to walk the narrow way. (James E. Orr, 1936)

 

Evangelistic Poem by Robert Hedrick

 

Opportunity's Doors

 

I remember some of the doors of opportunity God has opened for me,

Then I unknowingly reached out and closed them all rather selfishly.

Losing my chance to exalt the name of Jesus to some who needed to hear,

About a Savior that loves them and someday soon, He is going to appear.

 

At this point in my life I realize how important each opportunity can be,

In helping others to accept Jesus instead of facing a most tragic eternity.

Explaining God's plan of salvation as He puts them within my reach,

Wherever I may be, either high on a mountain or down on a sandy beach.

 

The bible tells me that the harvest is ready however the laborers are few,

Then this is my signal that there is plenty of work out there for me to do.

Be ready to witness to others at any time wherever God may see fit to lead,

And then to keep each one in my prayers daily that has a spiritual need.

 

Now when God opens those doors of opportunity I intend to walk on through,

To be very faithful in witnessing for Him as I know He created me to do.

For there was a time someone else had an opportunity performing it well,

Whenever they witnessed to me leading me away from the gates of hell.

 

Quotes for the month

 

Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.   ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

China is not to be won for Christ by quiet, ease-loving men and women ... The stamp of men and women we need is such as will put Jesus, China, [and] souls first and foremost in everything and at every time-even life itself must be secondary. ~ Hudson Taylor

 

The gospel has to be demonstrated in word and deed. ~ Christopher J. H. Wright

 

Evangelism without social action is like a body without a soul. Social action without evangelism is like a soul without a body. One is a corpse, the other is a ghost. We don't want either one. ~ E. Stanley Jones

 

It took 18 centuries for dedicated believers to grow from 0% of the world's population to 2.5% in 1900, only 70 years to grow from 2.5% to 5% in 1970, and just the last 30 years to grow from 5% to 11.2% of the world population. Now for the first time in history there is one believer for every nine people worldwide who aren't believers...we're talking about Bible-reading, Bible-believing stream of Christianity." ~ Ralph D. Winter and Bruce A. Koch/Perspectives

 

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. ~ C. S. Lewis

 

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing? ~William Carey

 

Preach the gospel always, and if necessary, use words. ~St. Francis of Assisi

 

The Social is the bait, but it is Salvation that is the hook that lands the fish ~Willaim Booth

 

People who don't believe in missions have not read the New Testament. Right from the beginning Jesus said the field is the world. The early church took Him at His word and went East, West, North and South. ~ J. Howard Edington

 

I have but one passion: It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the world; and henceforth that country shall be my home where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. ~ Count Nicolaus Ludwn Zinzendorf

 

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor. ~ Martin Luther

 

We Christians are debtors to all men at all times in all places, but we are so smug to the lostness of men. We've been "living in Laodicea ", lax, loose, lustful, and lazy. Why is there this criminal indifference to the lostness of men? Our condemnation is that we know how to live better than we are living. ~ Leonard Ravenhill  

 

God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women. ~ David Wilkerson

 

If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fellow men. ~Oswald Chambers

 

I don't know how your theology works, but if Jesus has a choice between stained glass windows and feeding starving kids in Haiti, I have a feeling he'd choose the starving kids in Haiti.~Tony Campolo

 

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll fight; while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, while there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end! ~William Booth

 

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. ~ Sally Koch

 

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God. ~ John Stott

 

Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thought clothed in Christian terms. Confusion here is fatal. ~ J. I. Packer

 

Evangelism is not salesmanship It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. ~ Richard C. Halverson.

 

If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies.  And if they perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay.  If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for. ~ Charles Spurgeon

 

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell! ~ Charles Spurgeon

 

Evangelism is not a professional job for a few trained men, but is instead the unrelenting responsibility of every person who belongs to the company of Jesus. ~ Elton Trueblood

 

You have nothing to do but to save souls.  Therefore spend and be spent in this work.  And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most...It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance. ~ John Wesley

 

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them. ~ Keith Green

 

Preach abroad....It is the cooping yourselves up in rooms that has dampened the work of God, which never was and never will be carried out to any purpose without going into the highways and hedges and compelling men and women to come in. ~ Jonathan Edwards

 

Make it an object of constant study, and of daily reflection and prayer, to learn how to deal with sinners so as to promote their conversion. ~ Charles G. Finney

 

The attitude of the average Christian today is relax and be raptured.  But He is coming... and when God gets angry you've no idea what it is.  Like a thousand volcanoes exploding.  He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world and the poor blind world doesn't know much about it and the poor blind church doesn't think much about it now. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

 

It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available.  We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it. ~ Dr. Vance Havner

 

How shall I feel at the judgment, if multitudes of missed opportunities pass before me in full review, and all my excuses prove to be disguises of my cowardice and pride. ~ Dr. W. E. Sangster

 

Oh my friends, we are loaded with countless church activities, while the real work of the church, that of evangelizing and winning the lost, is almost entirely neglected. ~ Oswald J. Smith

 

 

Literature for the month

 

Essays on the Social Gospel by Adolf Harnack and Wilhelm Herrmann

 

Download from here (431 KB)

 

 

Activities and programmes for June

 

1. Community Evangelistic Outreach ~

    Dundee - 12th & Aberdeen - 6th (HCF locations), 27th (Care Home)

   

2. Saturday's Evangelism - 26th ~ At Union Street (3 ~5pm)

 

3. Monthly Power Night & Prayer Vigil ~ Friday 25th

 

4. Prayer & Fasting on Sunday after Service - 27th  

 

Welcome To The Brand New Month of May- 2010

Theme for the month -  “REVIVAL"

 

Key Verse for the Month

 

Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee? (Psalms 85:6)

 

Song for the Month

 

Search me, O God, and know my heart today,

Try me, O Savior, know my thoughts, I pray;

See if there be some wicked way in me;

Cleanse me from every sin, and set me free.

 

I praise Thee, Lord, for cleansing me from sin;

Fulfill Thy word and make me pure within;

Fill me with fire, where once I burned with shame;

Grant my desire to magnify Thy name.

 

Lord, take my life, and make it wholly Thine;

Fill my poor heart with Thy great love divine;

Take all my will, my passion, self and pride;

I now surrender, Lord, in me abide.

 

O Holy Ghost, revival comes from Thee;

Send a revival, start the work in me;

Thy Word declares Thou wilt supply our need;

For blessings now, O Lord, I humbly plead. (James E. Orr, 1936)

 

Revival Poem by S.R Elwood

 

I feel a strange sensation

Stirring in my heart

I can feel that something big

Is just about to start

 

We Christians have been praying

For revival in the land

I now can sense the moving

Of God's Almighty Hand

 

Lost souls are all around us

The field's of harvest, white

We need to pray around the clock

For we must do this right

 

Pray ye without ceasing

I hear the Master's call

Remember children, for the lost

I did give My all

 

I am coming very soon

I hear the Saviour say

You have so very little time

Today could be the day

 

It's not my will that one should die

Lost souls now you must save

Revival in the land we need

God's Holy sweeping wave

 

Change my heart, oh Precious Lord

Help me now to see

Revival in the world today

And that it starts with me.

 

Revival Poem by E. Schumacher

 

For her we weep, for her we wail

A church that sleeps when foes assail

And speaks of peace while sin prevails.

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

Her eyes are blind, her ears are deaf.

Though she claims life, she lies in death.

Come Lord to fill her with Your breath!

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

Zion with Babel intertwines.

She staggers drunk with harlot wines.

Come Lord and with Your fire refine!

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

Shall wheat be overrun by tares?

Shall Your great cause end in despair?

No! For a remnant You've prepared!

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

By grace, Your remnant does remain

To preach Your Word and sing Your fame

Until Your church revives again.

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

Though she be fainting, sick and pale,

The gates of hell cannot prevail!

You build Your church; she cannot fail!

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

Lord, if our cry and plea are heard,

Unleash Your Spirit, loose Your Word!

Apart from these, there is no cure!

Come now, O Lord, Your church revive!

 

Quotes for the month

 

O LORD, I have heard thy speech, [and] was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.  Then shall we know, [if] we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter [and] former rain unto the earth. 

~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

And now for a little space grace hath been [shewed] from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late – and how little revival has resulted?  I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work.  To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. ~ A.W. Tozer

 

I am convinced from what I know of world conditions that the only hope of our day is a religious revival. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

A revival is nothing else than a new beginning of obedience to God. ~ C. G Finney

 

Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die-or if need be, to win and die! "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." ~ C. G Finney

 

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. ~ C. G Finney

 

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk. ~Billy Sunday

 

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God. It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time. ~John Mott

 

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer- meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere ~Leonard Ravenhill

 

By the time the average Christian gets his temperature up to normal, everybody thinks he has a fever! ~Watchman Nee

 

The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos; the church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. ~ A.W Tozer

 

No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame. ~ E.M Bounds

 

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray. ~ Samuel Chadwick

 

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results. ~ R.A Torrey

 

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer. ~ E.M Bounds

 

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now! ~ Keith Green

 

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none the less prize and value, and seek for the genuine fire which comes from the altar of the Lord. ~ Williams Booth

 

I want deliberately to encourage this mighty longing after God. The lack of it has brought us to our present low estate. The stiff and wooden quality about our religious lives is a result of our lack of holy desire. Complacency is a deadly foe of all spiritual growth. Acute desire must be present or there will be no manifestation of Christ to His people. He waits to be wanted. Too bad that with many of us He waits so long, so very long, in vain. ~ A.W Tozer

 

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. ~ Billy Sunday

 

Spirit filled souls are ablaze for God. They love with a love that glows. They serve with a faith that kindles. They serve with a devotion that consumes. They hate sin with fierceness that burns. They rejoice with a joy that radiates. Love is perfected in the fire of God. ~ Samuel Chadwick

 

Truth without enthusiasm, morality without emotion, ritual without soul, are things Christ unsparingly condemned. Destitute of fire, they are nothing more than a godless philosophy, an ethical system, and a superstition. ~ Samuel Chadwick

 

Give me the love that leads the way, the faith that nothing can dismay, the hope no disappointments tire, the passion that will burn like fire; Let me not sink to be a clod: Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God. ~ Amy Carmichael

 

He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. ~ C.S Lewis

 

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

~ Charles Wesley

 

He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitible? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things.' Saturate me with the oil of the Spirit that I may be aflame. But flame is transient, often short lived. Canst thou bear this, my soul - short life? ... Make me thy fuel, Flame of God. ~ Jim Elliot

 

God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life, that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like You, Lord Jesus. ~ Jim Elliot

 

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children? ~ George Whitefield

 

 

Literature for the month

 

Download from our website

 

Revival Lectures by Charles G Finney (1.48MB)

 

Revival Kindlings by W.M Knapps (436KB)

 

 

Activities and programmes for April

 

1. Prayer & Fasting with Publicity on Sundays

    Duthie Park - 9th, Westburn Park - 16th & Hazelhead Park - 23rd  

   

2. Saturdays’ Publicity & Evangelism – 8th, 15th & 22nd ~ At Union Street (3 ~5pm)

 

3. Monthly Power Night & Prayer Vigil ~ Friday 21st

 

4. Prayer & Fasting on Friday Revival Services – 7th, 14th & 21st

 

 

SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH

 

Scottish Revival with Pastor (Dr) W.F Kumuyi

Date: 25th – 26th May 2010

Venue: Riady Theatre, Napier University Edinburgh, EH14 1DJ

Begin to invite others!

 

 

Welcome To The Brand New Month of April- 2010

Theme for the month -  “Complete in CHRIST"

 

 

Key Verse for the Month

 

And ye are complete in HIM, which is the Head of all principality and power:  (Colossians 2:10)

 

Song for the Month

 

Oh! to be like Thee, blessed Redeemer,

This is my constant longing and prayer;

Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,

Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear.

 

Oh! to be like Thee, oh! to be like Thee,

Blessed Redeemer, pure as Thou art;

Come in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;

Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.

 

Oh! to be like Thee, full of compassion,

Loving, forgiving, tender and kind,

Helping the helpless, cheering the fainting,

Seeking the wand’ring sinner to find.

 

Oh! to be like Thee, lowly in spirit,

Holy and harmless, patient and brave;

Meekly enduring cruel reproaches,

Willing to suffer, others to save.

 

Oh! to be like Thee, Lord, I am coming,

Now to receive th’ anointing divine;

All that I am and have I am bringing,

Lord, from this moment all shall be Thine.

 

Oh! to be like Thee, while I am pleading,

Pour out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love,

Make me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,

Fit me for life and Heaven above. (Thomas O. Chisholm, 1866~1960)

 

Quotes for the month

 

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)

 

If we try to separate the Cross from suffering and sacrifice, all we have left is an empty theory of salvation.  ~ Bernie Smith

 

Must Jesus bear the cross alone,

And all the world go free?

No! there's a cross for every one,

And there's a cross for me.

 

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments that stand out, the moments when you have really lived, are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love... The test of a man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but 'How have I loved?' The test of religion, the final test of religion, is not religiousness, but love. Not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. ~Henry Drummond

 

Suppose someone should offer me a plateful of crumbs after I had eaten a T-bone steak. I would say, "No, thank you. I am already satisfied." Christian, that is the secret—you can be so filled with the things of Christ, so enamored with the things of God that you do not have time for the sinful pleasures of the world. ~Billy Graham

 

There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Ghost either in our sanctification or healing. ~Mrs. Charles E. Cowman

 

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action. ~Edward Bedore

 

The great downfall of the Christian life is that, even where we trust Christ, we leave the Father out! Christ came to bring us to God, the Father. Christ lived the life of a man exactly as we have to live it. Christ the Vine points to God the Husbandman. As He trusted the Father, let us trust the Father. In that way, everything we ought to be and have, as those who belong to the Vine, will be given to us from above. ~Andrew Murray

 

Many people think that the mark of an authentic Christian is doctrinal purity; if a person's beliefs are biblical and doctrinally orthodox, then he is a Christian. People who equate orthodoxy with authenticity find it hard to even consider the possibility that, despite the correctness of all their doctrinal positions, they may have missed the deepest reality of the authentic Christian life. But we must never forget that true Christianity is more than teaching - it is a way of life. In fact, it is life itself. "He who has the Son has life," remember? When we talk about life, we are talking about something that is far more than mere morality, far more than doctrinal accuracy. ~Ray C. Stedman

 

The weakness in our Christian life is that we do not take time to believe that this Divine Love really does delight in us. Love will awaken your faith and strengthen it. Occupy yourself with that love; worship it; wait for it. You may be sure it will reach out to you, and by its power take you up into itself as your home." ~Andrew Murray

 

The depths of our spirituality does not depend upon changing the things we do, but in doing for God what we ordinarily do for ourselves. ~Brother Lawrence

 

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion — it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.~Billy Graham

 

Few things are more infectious than a godly lifestyle. The people you rub shoulders with everyday need that kind of challenge. Not prudish. Not preachy. Just cracker jack clean living. Just honest to goodness, bone - deep, non-hypocritical integrity. ~Charles ( Chuck ) R. Swindoll

 

We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about. ~R. C. Sproul

 

One day when a certain man who wavered often and anxiously between hope and fear was struck with sadness, he knelt in humble prayer before the altar of a church. While meditating on these things, he said: "Oh if I but knew whether I should persevere to the end!" Instantly he heard within the divine answer: "If you knew this, what would you do? Do now what you would do then and you will be quite secure." Immediately consoled and comforted, he resigned himself to the divine will and the anxious uncertainty ceased. His curiosity no longer sought to know what the future held for him, and he tried instead to find the perfect, the acceptable will of God in the beginning and end of every good work. ~Thomas à Kempis

 

We seldom realize fully that we are sent to fulfill God-given tasks. We act as if we were simply dropped down in creation and have to decide to entertain ourselves until we die. But we were sent into the world by God, just as Jesus was. Once we start living our lives with that conviction, we will soon know what we were sent to do. ~Henri J. M. Nouwen

 

The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline - it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins. ~Joni Eareckson Tada

 

The single most significant problem in the Christian community is that we men have failed to exhibit the Christ-like leadership that God requires of us. If we did, we would be able to cure relationship problems. We demonstrate this lack of Christ-like leadership by our unwillingness to take the steps to understand women, which prevents us from bringing lasting solutions to relationship problems...Christ-likeness is God's first priority for every man - that we as men become Christ-like in our responses, in our sensitivity to our wives' spirits. In loving them as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it, we become the spiritual leaders that they will respond to with love and loyalty. ~Ken Nair

 

The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion, but, on the contrary, of its liberality and humanity. It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted: precisely because most things are permitted, and only a few things are forbidden. ~Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton

 

Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing it with the new. The old is the lies you have learned to tell or were taught by those around you; it is the attitudes and ideas that have become a part of your thinking but do not reflect reality. The new is the truth. To renew your mind is to involve yourself in the process of allowing God to bring to the surface the lies you have mistakenly accepted and replace them with truth. To the degree that you do this, your behavior will be transformed. ~Charles Stanley

 

I choose goodness...I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness. ~Max Lucado

 

True faith does not contradict its words by its conduct. ~Anonymous

 

The greatest thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. ~C. S. Lewis

 

Literature for the month

 

Like Christ by Andrew Murray

 

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Activities and programmes for April

 

1. Sunday Evangelism – 11th

 

2. Saturday Evangelism – 24th ~ At Union Street (3 ~5pm)

 

3. Monthly Power Night & Prayer Vigil ~ Friday 30th

 

4. Monthly Prayer and Fasting Day after service ~ Sunday 25th

 

 

SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH

 

Deeper Life National Scottish Easter Retreat – POWER for Your Hour!

Date: 2 – 4 April

Venue: Stockbridge House, 2 Chyne Street, Edinburgh, EH4 1JB

Welcome To The Brand New Month of March- 2010

Welcome To The Brand New Month of February- 2010

Welcome To The Brand New Month of January- 2010

The theme for the month "A New Beginning"

Key Verse for the Month
 
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them. (Isaiah 42:9)
 
Song for the Month
 
Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be
In working or in waiting, another year with Thee.
Another year of progress, another year of praise,
Another year of proving Thy presence all the days.
 
Another year of mercies, of faithfulness and grace,
Another year of gladness in the shining of Thy face;
Another year of leaning upon Thy loving breast;
Another year of trusting, of quiet, happy rest.
 
Another year of service, of witness for Thy love,
Another year of training for holier work above.
Another year is dawning, dear Father, let it be
On earth, or else in Heaven, another year for Thee.
(Frances R. Hav­er­gal, 1836 - 1879)
 
Quotes for the month
 
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)
 
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)
 
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)
 
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)
 
And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him. ~ The Holy Bible (KJV)
 
Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown
 
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each New Year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
 
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland
 
The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell
 
Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther
 
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs
 
We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman
 
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton
 
The two things I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavor is taking the first step, making the first decision. ~ Robyn Davidson
 
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~ Carl Bard
 
To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you are going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.
~ Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
 
Every morning is a fresh beginning. Every day is the world made new. Today is a new day. Today is my world made new. I have lived all my life up to this moment, to come to this day. This moment--this day--is as good as any moment in all eternity. I shall make of this day--each moment of this day--a heaven on earth. This is my day of opportunity. ~ Dan Custer, author
 
Things great have small beginnings.
Every downpour is just a raindrop;
Every fire is just a spark;
every harvest is just a seed;
every journey is just a step because
without that step there will be no journey;
without that raindrop there can be no shower;
without that seed there can be no harvest.
~ William Wilberforce
 
Preach the gospel everyday; if necessary, use words. ~ St. Francis of Assisi
 
Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith. ~ Smith Wigglesworth
 
If knowing answers to life's questions is absolutely necessary to you, then forget the journey. You will never make it, for this is a journey of unknowables - of unanswered questions, enigmas, incomprehensibles, and, most of all, things unfair. ~ Madame Jeanne Guyon
 
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
 
 
Literature for the month
 
Pilgrim Progress by John Bunyan
 
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Activities and programmes for January
 
1. Sunday Evangelism - 3rd
 
2. Saturday Evangelism - 23rd - At Union Street (3 -5pm)
 
3. Monthly Power Night & Prayer Vigil - Friday 29th
 
4. Monthly Prayer and Fasting Day after service - Sunday 31st

 
SPECIAL PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH

DLBC Sunday Covenant Services
Date: All Sundays in January
Time: 7.30am
Venue: St Fitticks Parish
Minister: Pastor (Dr) W.F Kumuyi
 
 


 


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