- bobjthurlow: "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." [Maya Angelou]
- bobjthurlow: This world has so many pleasures to offer - not all bad. But the pleasure of knowing Christ is without equal.
- bobjthurlow: "If you have little taste for Jesus, completing pleasures will triumph" - John Piper.
- bobjthurlow: "I believe in eternal security. God keeps me secure by making me desperate to be kept--through prayer and the fight of faith." John Piper.
- bobjthurlow: RT @JohnPiper: The key to being merciful: Be more amazed that you're forgiven than that you're wronged. Not just convinced, but amazed.
- bobjthurlow: "God's passion to save and to purify feeds itself not from the shallow soil of our value, but from the infinite depth of his own" John Piper
- bobjthurlow: Seems that the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth grow up and choke even Christian lives until we have no time to give.
- bobjthurlow: "God cannot be under obligation to any human creature. If he is to act graciously towards us, it cannot be on the basis of works". (D. Moo)
- bobjthurlow: RT @JohnPiper: Daniel to every unbeliever: "The God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored." (5:23)
- bobjthurlow: "Never can any creature force God to act in any way. All that God does, he does of his own free will." (Douglas Moo on Romans.)
- bobjthurlow: Back in Henty after 5 Sundays and half a world away walking in the footsteps of Jesus (roughly) in Egypt, Israel and Jordan.
- bobjthurlow: Knowledgeable & gifted pastors can be easily found, but not all of them are godly. Seek out those who are godly before those who are gifted.
- bobjthurlow: I just uploaded "20110918 - Why humans have more reason to praise God than angels" on Vimeo: http://t.co/1VvoZd51
- bobjthurlow: Needs some tweaking, but when I don't have time to read the entire Bible, it's something to reflect on. Any suggestions for improvement?
- bobjthurlow: "God has demonstrated his glory most fully in rescuing humans through Christ. Therefore acknowledge and declare this glory in how you live."
- bobjthurlow: If I had to summarise the whole Bible in 140 characters, what would I write? Here's my first attempt...
- bobjthurlow: BUT "Praise the Lord, O my soul... as far as the East is from the West, so far has he removed our transgressions from us". (Psalm 103)
- bobjthurlow: If we had been created for no other purpose than to glorify God by justifiably dying for our sins, he would still be worthy of our praise.
- bobjthurlow: Just completed a 6.13 km walk - Pleasant stroll alongside the Henty swamp with Jacky. :-). http://rnkpr.com/anbo8m #RunKeeper
- bobjthurlow: Jesus to God: "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mt27:46) God to us: "Never will I leave you, never will I forsake you" (Heb13:5)
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