A Quiet Simple Life
Sallie Schaaf Borrink
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These are notes I recorded in my Bible related to Hebrews 11. A few of them are dated and none have a written attribution. All quotes KJV. General notes in margins Faith – our response to God’s initiative Faith grows because we know God. Faith is our response to the knowledge of the character of …
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How are you doing? I mean that sincerely. How are you holding up these days? I listened to a series of three videos this morning in which the YouTuber read out details submitted by followers from around they country (and world). They outlined many of the shortages and challenges we are facing in virtually every …
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“The just shall live by faith.” (Heb. 10:38). Seemings and feelings are often substituted for faith. Pleasurable emotions and deep satisfying experiences are part of the Christian life, but they are not all of it. Trials, conflicts, battles and testings lie along the way, and are not to be counted as misfortunes, but rather as …
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Today I am going to let Helen H. Lemmel’s words from 1922 be my word to you. If you aren’t familiar with this, it’s from the hymn Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus. O soul, are you weary and troubled? No light in the darkness you see? There’s light for a look at the Savior, And …
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“Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece” (Judges 6:39). There are degrees to faith. At one stage of Christian experience we cannot believe unless we have some sign or some great manifestation of feeling. We feel our fleece, like Gideon, and if it is wet we are willing to trust …
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. –Hebrews 11:1 (ESV) God delights to increase the faith of his children. We ought, instead of wanting no trials before victory, no exercise for patience, to be willing to take them from God’s hands as a means. Trials, obstacles, difficulties, …
