Don't Quit

Here's a public confession and a flaw in my life: Sometimes I feel like quitting!

Today, I read this scripture from Hebrews 11:24-27.

By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the sons of Pharaoh's daughter.  He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.  He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward.  By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king's anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible.

Dear Lord, in my centering time with You, you have spoken to my heart this morning. May I persevere because my focus is on 'Him who is invisible'. I choose Christ today, above all.  I regard anything that brings discouragement or defeat to have no power compared to the power of knowing you, Jesus.  Help me to discern your hand at work both today and the days that follow.  Amen

Thoughts About Relevant Preaching

“Preaching is the communication of truth by man to men. It has in it two essential elements, truth and personality. Neither of those can it spare and still be preaching. The truest truth, the most authoritative statement of God’s will, communicated in any other way than through the personality of brother man to men is not preached truth. 
Suppose it written on the sky, suppose it embodied in a book which has been so long held in reverence as the direct utterance of God that that the vivid personality of the men who wrote its pages has well-nigh faded out of it; in neither of these cases is there any preaching. 
And on the other hand, if men speak to other men that which they do not claim for truth, if they use their powers of persuasion or of entertainment to make other men listen to their speculations, or do their will, or applaud their cleverness, that is not preaching either. The first lacks personality. The second lacks truth. And preaching is the bringing of truth through personality. It must have both elements.” Philips Brooks