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I am giving thanks for this!
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 2 November 2009
Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Ultrasound of Abortion Procedure
Posted in Recommendations
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 15 October 2009
Phillips Update
It has been a long time since I have posted any original content here.
Blogging is pretty far down in the priority scale at this point, and we’ve been inundated with all kinds of new things in life. (different house to remodel, two new jobs, additional responsibilities for church and Bible study, and plenty of time taken by missionary training and discussion with missionary agencies)
I do hope to put some stuff up in the near future, as time allows.
However, I do want to point you to something Kassie wrote this week. If you know us, I think you’ll want to read the post. Kassie did a really good job of re-telling the story and the pictures at the end had me a little choked up. You can read it by clicking here.
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Facebook readers might have to click through to my original post to get the link.
Posted in Family, General, Recommendations
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 13 October 2009
Faith Risks
“Christ’s call is to feed the hungry, not the full, to save the lost, not the stiff necked, not to call the scoffers but the sinners to repentance, not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers, and artistic musical performances, but to raise living churches of souls among the destitute, to capture men from the devils clutches, and snatch them away from the very jaws of hell and enlist and train them for Jesus and make them into an almighty army of God, but this can only be accomplished by red hot unconventional, unfettered holy ghost religion….where only Christ and Him crucified are preached….by wreckless sacrifice and heroism in the foremost trenches.”
-C.T. Studd
(via Spirit of Adoption)
Posted in Christian Life, Constructive Criticism, Love, Missions
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 24 September 2009
Quotes in my Bible: Wanting God
“Any man can have as much of God as he wants.”
That encouraging- and haunting- phrase is written in the back of my Bible.
It’s encouraging because of the hope that is held out during times of frustration and laziness. There is a promise that God is eager to encourage and bless each person. He cannot wait to do good.
It’s also haunting because the blame for spiritural apathy rests squarely on my shoulders. When God seems distant, I know that it is not because He has moved away from me, but that I have moved away from Him.
To sum it up, this short sentence should be a blessing. It’s a reminder of God’s pursuit of me and of my responsibility to diligently pursue Him.
Posted in Bible, Christian Life, Personal
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 6 September 2009
Tears of the Saints
Posted in Christian Life, Love, Missions
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 4 September 2009
Vessels of Glory
“Let us stand still, and admire and wonder at the love of Jesus Christ to poor sinners; that Christ should rather die for us, than for the angels. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God: yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us vessels of glory, Oh, what amazing and astonishing love is this! This is the envy of devils, and the admiration of angels and saints.”
– Thomas Brooks, Christ’s Love for Us
(via Sam)
Posted in Christian Life
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 3 September 2009
Quotes in my Bible: Tozer Prayer
This is the first post in a new series. In the coming weeks, I’ll share the few quotes that I have written in the inside of my Bible.
Some of these quotes are more common than others, but they each have a special significance to me. I don’t want a messy looking cluttered mass of quotes that are pretty good, so I make sure that the words are substantial before I put pen to inside cover.
This precious prayer is the most lengthy quote written in my Bible. It’s the only thing written in the front of my Bible.
From A.W. Tozer’s The Pursuit of God:
O God, I have tasted Your goodness,
and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more.
I am painfully conscious of my need of further grace.
I am ashamed of my lack of desire.
O God, the Triune God,
I want to want You;
I long to be filled with longing;
I thirst to be made more thirsty still.
Show me Your glory, I pray,
so I may know You indeed.
Begin in mercy a new work of love within me…
Give me grace to rise and follow You up from this misty lowland
where I have wandered so long.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Posted in Bible, Christian Life, Personal
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 29 August 2009
Billy Collins: The Lanyard
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 7 July 2009
Give up on self; trust in Christ alone.
Posted by: Brian Phillips | 1 June 2009
Lecrae at Bethlehem Baptist Church
Posted in Art, Christian Life, Music
