COMPASSION

NOTE TO SELF:  Go back and read this article - http://deeperstory.com/the-c-word/

a portion of the article:

I will live inside my skin, painful though it is. And I will live inside your skin too and together . . . if we’re all living inside each other’s skin? God. It feels like a scourging, but it looks like Christ.

“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside someone else’s skin. It’s the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. ”  ~ Frederick Buechner

Teach us how to love, Abba

Question: "What is the human soul?"

http://www.gotquestions.org/human-soul.html

Question: "What is the heart?"

http://www.gotquestions.org/what-is-the-heart.html

Tell the gospel as you find it in the Bible, but set it in the frame of your own experience of its preciousness!

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Desiring God

Spurgeon: "Tell the gospel as you find it in the Bible, but set it in the frame of your own experience of its preciousness! Tell your son how you sinned and how the Lord had mercy upon you."

When Your Son Asks

www.desiringgod.org

When your son asks you in time to come, "What is the meaning of the testimonies and the statutes and the rules that the Lord our God has commanded you?" then you shall say to your son, "We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt. And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand."

Do you have a church where your gifts are encouraged?

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The High Calling

FB team member Dena Dyer here. Like many people, I've been thinking a lot about Whitney Houston, whose career started with singing in her church, and today I'm amen-ing the wisdom in this piece from UrbanFaith called "The Missing X Factor." I especially love the ending: "We would all be closer to achieving greatness in whatever our particular pursuit in life may be if we had a regular opportunity to practice it, and if we heard the words of folk who love us encouraging us when we mess up: 'That’s alright now, take your time!'" Do you have a church where your gifts are encouraged? If so, how? If not, how could you encourage them to let people's gifts be more fully expressed?

The Missing X Factor

www.urbanfaith.com

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