http://hoseabilyeu.com Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:03:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How do we participate in our political system without being seduced by worldly values? Let me recommend you visit an article written by John Piper: (http://www.desiringgod.org/12all/index.php?action=archive&mode=view&mi=329&nl=1&ei=hbilyeu@ridgecrestbaptist.org What a great time to be a Christian! Seize the day! Hosea http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=21 Peter followed Him at a distance." Events were falling into place. Prophecy was being fulfilled. Jesus was being led from the Garden of Gethsemane. Peter - brash, bold, Peter - was following. Luke adds this note: at a distance. Is that me I see? Am I a "distant" follower of my Lord? ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=20 Luke 22:45 "He found them asleep, exhausted with sorrow." HCSB In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prayed alone. His closest friends were near Him, but they were asleep. Luke's account gives us this insight: they were "exhausted with sorrow." Sorrow is an exhausting, sometimes debilitating business. Grief saps the soul, turning everything ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=19 Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives . . . Focus your thoughts for a moment on the words as usual. It is obvious that Jesus had some holy habits in His life! Habits, spiritually speaking, often get bad press. They are equated with "vain repetitions," traditionalism, and ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=18 Do this in remembrance of Me (Luke 22:19). "I'll go to the book table," I said. "You get the computer ready and I will be there shortly." I meant to do it; I wanted to do it; but I forgot to do it! Seven hours too late I remembered I had ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=16 "Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win." Bobby Knight, quoted by Clarence Thomas in My Grandfather's Son. I think the distinction is tremendously important. Too often we view our failures as a lack of will or even as an indication ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=14 Dr. Lon Allison, director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, uses what he calls the 1-10 guide to witnessing: 1 - Lord, let me have at least one spiritual conversation this week 10 - (From John Maxwell) If I am in conversation with someone for at least ten minutes, ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=13 In James MacDonald's book, Downpour, he lists a second promise to be made by those who seek personal, radical, joyful, biblical revival: I promise to set God's Word high above human teaching and to handle it with the respect it deserves. I see no prospect for personal revival apart from God's Word ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=12 Debbie and I are enjoying and growing as a result of the teaching we are receiving at the Billy Graham School of Evangelism in Asheville, NC. One of the presenters, Dr. Lon Allison, is the director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He and several others have recently ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=11 I am reading a book by James MacDonald titled Downpour. It is a call to experience God in personal revival. He defines revival as "renewed interest after a period of indifference or decline. In his introduction, he invites us to make and keep some promises. I have found these to ... http://hoseabilyeu.com/?p=10