Bulletin 9.21.25
"O Israel, hope in the LORD From this time forth and forever." Psalm 131:3
Reflection Before The Service
Reflection Before The Service
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The Holy One seeks the humble. There is nothing that has such an attraction for God, that has such affinity with holiness, as a contrite and humble spirit.
- Andrew Murray Holy in Christ, 1887
The cost for the recipient of God's grace is nothing - and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.
- Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III, Bold Love (1992)
Better is that sin which humbles me-than that duty which makes me proud. Rather than a Christian shall be haughty minded, God will let him fall into the devil's hands awhile, to be cured of his swelling pride.
- Thomas Watson, All Things for Good (A Divine Cordial) 1663
The 'progress' of the Christian therefore, is the progress of one who has constantly to get used to the fact that we are justified totally by faith, constantly has somehow to 'recover,' so to speak, from that death blow to pride and presumption— or better, is constantly being raised from the tomb of all pious ambition to something quite new. The believer has to be renewed daily in that. The Old Being is to be daily drowned in repentence and raised in faith. The progress of the Christian life is not our movement toward the goal; it is the movement of the goal in upon us.
- Gerhard O. Forde (1927 - 2005), Justification by Faith: A Matter of Death and Life (pp. 50-51)
The Call To Worship
The Call To Worship
Psalm 131 — A song of Ascents, of David
O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty;
Nor do I involve myself in great matters,
Or in things too difficult for me.
Surely I have composed and quited my soul;
Like a weaned child rests against his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me.
O Israel, hope in the LORD
From this time forth and forever.
(Silent Prayer for Composure)
(Prayer)
Reflection Before The Service
If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.
- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The Holy One seeks the humble. There is nothing that has such an attraction for God, that has such affinity with holiness, as a contrite and humble spirit.
- Andrew Murray Holy in Christ, 1887
The cost for the recipient of God's grace is nothing - and no price could be higher for arrogant people to pay.
- Dan Allender and Tremper Longman III, Bold Love (1992)
Better is that sin which humbles me-than that duty which makes me proud. Rather than a Christian shall be haughty minded, God will let him fall into the devil's hands awhile, to be cured of his swelling pride.
- Thomas Watson, All Things for Good (A Divine Cordial) 1663
The 'progress' of the Christian therefore, is the progress of one who has constantly to get used to the fact that we are justified totally by faith, constantly has somehow to 'recover,' so to speak, from that death blow to pride and presumption— or better, is constantly being raised from the tomb of all pious ambition to something quite new. The believer has to be renewed daily in that. The Old Being is to be daily drowned in repentence and raised in faith. The progress of the Christian life is not our movement toward the goal; it is the movement of the goal in upon us.
- Gerhard O. Forde (1927 - 2005), Justification by Faith: A Matter of Death and Life (pp. 50-51)
The Call To Worship
Psalm 131 — A song of Ascents, of David
O Lord, my heart is not proud, nor my eyes haughty;
Nor do I involve myself in great matters,
Or in things too difficult for me.
Surely I have composed and quited my soul;
Like a weaned child rests against his mother,
My soul is like a weaned child within me.
O Israel, hope in the LORD
From this time forth and forever.
(Silent Prayer for Composure)
(Prayer)
21/09/25