Wednesday, June 30, 2010

BBTC and DG International Outreach

BBTC Students with their books 
Donated by Desiring God International Outreach

1st Year Students (47) received:
Finally Alive
Dangerous Duty of Delight
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
For Your Joy

2nd Year Students (44) received:
Let the Nations be Glad
Don't Waste Your Life
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
For Your Joy

3rd Year Students (29) received:
Filling up the Afflictions of Christ
Don't Waste Your Life
Fifty Reasons Why Jesus Came to Die
For Your Joy

Staff (23) received:
Dangerous Duty of Delight
For Your Joy


Many thanks to Desiring God International Outreach for their generous support!
  

Back from BBTC

We returned from Africa yesterday afternoon.  Total travel time including drive time, flying, time change, and layovers was about 30 hours.

Monday, June 14, 2010

"Make friends with your trials"

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Make friends with your trials, as though you were always to live together, and you will see that when you cease to take thought for your own deliverance, God will take thought of you.
- Francis de Sales
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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Bonhoeffer Poetry

  
Discipline

If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things
to govern your soul and your senses, for fear that your passions
and longing may lead you away from the path you should follow.
Chaste be your mind and your body, and both in subjection,
obediently steadfastly seeking the aim set before them;
only through discipline may a man learn to be free.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Quote from Eric Metaxas' Bonhoeffer

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Today's Bonhoefferism

 "The only fight which is lost is that which we give up."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This phase was often repeated by Bonhoeffer to another inmate & friend during his imprisonment.

Quote taken from Eric Metaxas' Bonhoeffer

Friday, June 4, 2010

Easy or Hard?

Ever find that the narrow path is difficult?  Ever tempted to chose the easy route?

"Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few."
- Jesus

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Bonhoeffer on Sovereignty



"Everything we cannot thank God for, 
we reproach Him for."


- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Quote from Bonhoeffer, by Eric Metaxas


Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Free Audio Book

ChristianAudio.com is offering the following book as a free audio download during the month of June:

Forgotten God: 
Reversing our tragic neglect of the Holy Spirit 
 By Francis Chan

Check it out!