http://www.cookbits.com Random Quotes & Articles to Provide Food for Thought Sat, 10 Nov 2007 11:14:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What can we do to satisfy the heart of our Father in heaven? The answer is near thee, even in thy mouth. Vacate the throne room of your heart and enthrone Jesus there. Set Him in the focus of your heart's attention and stop wanting to be a hero. Make ... http://www.cookbits.com/bits/the-lordship-of-christ.html The church is saddened by our recent loss. One of our most valued parishioners has passed on — Mr. Someone Else. The death of Mr. Else creates a vacancy which will be quite diffi cult to fi ll. This is so, of course, because Someone Else has been with us ... http://www.cookbits.com/bits/the-passing-of-mr-someone-else.html John 1:29-36 I want to draw our attention tonight to the second half of verse 29: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” This is a very familiar verse to most of us I’m sure, but I wonder if our familiarity with it has deadened ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/the-worlds-sin-bearer.html Luke 18:1-8 Hopefully you’ll remember that last week I spoke about prayer, about praying until we get an answer. My illustration was from the parable of the friend at midnight: how we need to be like shameless beggars if we really want to receive from God. Tonight I want to speak about ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/praying-until-we-are-answered-part-2.html Luke 11:1-13 My subject tonight is Prayer, and I want us to begin tonight by asking ourselves a few questions--like: "Do I pray out of a sense of duty--that as a believer it’s something I ought to do; or as a kind of Christian lucky charm, hoping that if I keep ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/praying-until-we-are-answered.html Scripture: 2 Cor. 5:14-21 The verses I just read to you are from one of my favorite passages of Scripture. Paul is talking about that great subject that was never far from his thoughts: the reconciliation of God and man through the death of Christ. A key verse in this passage is ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/our-debt-of-love.html The focus of the Gospel is Jesus. There will always be a tug in Christian preaching and teaching to talk about our own experience—and a modest amount of this makes such speaking credible and interesting. But personal experiences can soon and subtly become self-centered preaching. Personal experience is like salt: ... http://www.cookbits.com/bits/jesus-the-focus-of-the-gospel.html Read Isaiah 53 On December 7, 1941 a Japanese squadron of 360 planes launched an all-out attack on Pearl Harbor, an act of aggression that launched the Pacific War. The commander of that Japanese Squadron was a man by the name of Mitsuo Fuchida. He was considered to be Japan’s most ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/all-we-like-sheep.html I want to talk for a few minutes tonight on the glorious truth that there is a Man in Heaven who is both our Saviour and our Sympathizer. The New Testament as a whole teaches us very plainly that God’s Son became a man and gave His life as a ransom ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/the-sympathizing-saviour.html Read Ephesians 1:1-3 Our reading is from the book of Ephesians, which deals with the subject of LIFE IN THE HEAVENLIES. It's the New Testament counterpart to the book of Joshua in the Old Testament. The book of Joshua, you will remember, describes the entrance of the Children of Israel into ... http://www.cookbits.com/nursing-home-talks/the-blessedness-of-being-a-christian.html