“Agony” by Leonard Ravenhill

Posted on February 22, 2012

“I believe the cardinal ethic of Christianity is sacrifice, not success! Sacrifice!” ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Asking The Tough Questions – Eric Ludy

Posted on February 13, 2012

We Need To See God Again – A.W. Tozer

Posted on February 8, 2012

“I love young people, but they’re being cheated in this awful hour in which we live…They’ve never seen God, and they’ve never seen very many people that have… and so you poor kids are victims of an elder generation that never saw God. So they had to teach you trash and drag in every clap trap to try and keep ya happy… and if you tell me the truth you don’t respect them for it. You go along with it, but you don’t respect em’ for it. My brethren, we need to see God again…” ~ A.W. Tozer

You Cannot Fight Sin With Sin

Posted on January 31, 2012

Always it is more important that we retain a right spirit toward others than that we bring them to our way of thinking, even if our way is right. Satan has achieved a real victory when he succeeds in getting us to react in an unspiritual way toward sins and failures in our brethren . We cannot fight sin with sin or draw men to God by frowning at them in fleshly anger. “For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” – A.W. Tozer

This quote by Tozer has really been challenging me in the past few days. I can think of so many times in my life that I have not had a right spirit toward others. When I have walked in my flesh and not walked by the Spirt and have had fleshly anger and not righteous anger, I was trying to fight sin with sin. I cannot think of any time, when I have walked and reacted in my flesh, that it has ever drawn people to God or drawn myself closer to Him. If anything, it hurts people and never helps, and I seem to always feel dirty.

I want to be at a point that I am dead, and God to be alive. I want God’s word my word, to be full of God’s love, mercy and fire! But I must be dead first! I need to surrender and lay down everything! He needs to be the Lord of my emotions. Because if He’s not…….. they will go wacko!

I also need to be more than just challenged. I have been challenged so much the past few months in my walk with God. He has used books, people, and many other things, but being challenged doesn’t mean anything if I don’t change. I want to change!

Please be praying for me that I would be dead in the flesh and alive in Jesus, and that when I am challenged, I would change. Thank you!

God Bless.

John

Breaking The Chain

Posted on January 29, 2012

We are all a part of a chain called life. This chain has been linked since the beginning of time and we all add links to this chain through the lives we live. Our grandparents added their links and passed the chain down to our parents and our parents have or are making their links and are passing this chain down to us.

For me, personally, and for probably a lot of us, we have been blessed to have parents that love the Lord and long to serve Him. They are adding links like, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (The fruits of the Spirit) and links like these will make the chain strong. It is our responsibility through the links we make to grow and reenforce these links our parents left behind.

But….. Since our parents and their parents before them are not perfect, weak links are often also added to this chain. Links like, hate, worry, impatience, unfaithfulness, addictions, and so on. And just as it is our responsibility to reenforce and grow the links that make this chain of life strong, it is also our responsibility to break the weak links and replace them with new ones.

Some day, I will be a leader of a home, and I will pass down this chain to my children. I want to pass down to my children a chain that is strong; one that has as little weak links as possible.

So I challenge you, like I am challenging myself, to reenforce and to grow the strong parts of your family’s chain, and to break the weak links in it. So that the next generation of your family will be even stronger in their walk with the Lord.

God Bless,

John

His Voice

Posted on January 11, 2012

Since 1998, Global Response Network has been a VOICE to awaken, inspire and motivate people all over the world to follow Jesus Christ. One of those expressions of being a voice is “The Normal Christian Life” (NCL) radio. Tom Zurowski (founder and director of Global Response Network – GRN) is the host. NCL radio airs every Sunday from 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. on WYGE 92.3 FM in London, KY. If you miss the radio broadcast itself, you can also go to www.nclradio.wordpress.com and listen there. We pray that through these broadcasts you will be awakened, inspired and motivated to live the Normal Christian Life with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.