THE AWE FACTOR OF GOD
VIDEO VIGNETTE III – John Piper
DO SOMETHING RISKY WITH YOUR LIFE!
Let me ask you: Is there something you aren’t doing in your life that you really want to do? Are you playing it too safe? I would encourage you to consider the fact that we’re all given one life and a finite period of time on earth, Are you making a difference or just marking time? Perhaps it’s time to be bold.
I’d love to hear your thoughts.
VIDEO VIGNETTE II – Max Lucado
Why Are You Afraid?
VIDEO VIGNETTE I: Dr. Billy Graham
All this week I’ll be sharing brief and compelling video clips from some of today’s most appreciated and respected Christian thinkers. I welcome your reaction and thoughts.
For now, I’m delighted to begin with the legendary Dr. Billy Graham.
TRUE HAPPINESS
The Christian Classics – Part V
Conversion: The Life-Changing Power of the Word
(from Augustine’s Confessions, Book VIII, Chs. 8-12)
There was a garden attached to our lodging, and we had the use of this as of the whole house; for our landlord, the owner of the house, did not live there. To this garden the tumult in my heart had driven me, as to a place where no one could intervene in this passionate suit which I had brought against myself until it could be settled—though how it would be settled You knew, not I.
The Christian Classics – Part IV
On the Benefits of Continual Conversation With God
(from The Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence, Fifth Letter)
I know that for the right practice [of the presence of God], the heart must be empty of all other things; because God will possess the heart alone; and as he cannot possess it alone without emptying it of all besides, so neither can He act there, and do in it what He pleases, unless it be left vacant to Him.
The Christian Classics – Part III
On Thinking Rightly about God
(from The Knowledge of the Holy, by A.W. Tozer)
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.
The Christian Classics – Part II
On The Hidden Life in Christ
(from The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan)
Then I saw in my dream, that the Interpreter took Christian by the hand, and led him into a place where was a fire burning against a wall, and one standing by it, always casting much water upon it, to quench it; yet did the fire burn higher and hotter.
Then said Christian, What means this?
The Interpreter answered, This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it to extinguish and put it out, is the devil: but in that thou seest the fire notwithstanding burn higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the reason of that.
The Christian Classics – Part I
If you had all the time in the world to read, what books beside the Bible would you invest your time in?
Jim Ware is a longtime member of the Focus team. He is a highly talented writer as well as a gifted musician. He can often be seen simultaneously reading and walking on his lunch break around the streets of our campus. He would probably deny it, but he may be the most well-read person you would ever meet.
An Officer and a Gentleman
Lt. Col. (Ret) Richard Korthals, a beloved Focus volunteer for over a decade and a decorated veteran of World War II, passed away this past Sunday morning. He was just one month shy of his 89th birthday.
From the fields of his family’s La Crosse, Wisconsin, farm, as a young boy Dick would look with wonder to the skies, dreaming of one day becoming a pilot. His dream came true. He went on to serve our nation in the Army Air Corps of Engineers, ultimately tasked with flying a C-47 transport plane in the Philippines between 1943 and 1945.
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