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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Here is the great evangelical disaster – the failure of the evangelical world to stand for truth as truth. There is only one word for this – accommodation: the evangelical church has accommodated to the world spirit of the age… Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation: loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.
Francis Schaeffer

A preacher paid a visit to a farmer and asked, “If you had 200 dollars, would you give 100 dollars to the Lord?” “Sure would,” said the farmer. “If you had two cows, would you give one cow to the Lord?” “Yeah, I would.” “"If you had two pigs, would you give one of them to the Lord?” The farmer replied, “That's not fair. You know I have two pigs.” There is no other time for giving but now. It will never be easy.
Kent Hughes

Pledge My Head to Heaven

Well, I pledge my head to heaven for the gospel,

And I ask no man on earth to fill my needs.

Like the sparrow up above, I am enveloped in his love,

And I trust him like those little ones, he feeds.

Well I pledge my wife to heaven, for the gospel,

Though our love each passing day just seems to grow.

As I told her when we wed, I’d surely rather be found dead,

Than to love her more than the one who saved my soul.

I’m your child, and I want to be in your family forever.

I’m your child, and I’m going to follow you,

No matter whatever the cost, I’m gonna count all things lost.

Well I pledge my son to heaven for the gospel.

Though he’s kicked and beaten, ridiculed and scorn.

I will teach him to rejoice, and life a thankful praising voice,

And to be like him who bore the nails and crown of thorns.

I’m your child, and I want to be in your family forever.

I’m your child, and I’m going to follow you,

No matter whatever the cost, I’m gonna count all things lost.

Oh no matter whatever the cost, I’m gonna count all things lost.

Well I’ve had the chance to gain the world, and to live just like a king,

But without your love, it doesn’t mean a thing.

Oh no matter whatever the cost, I’m gonna count all things lost,

Oh no matter whatever the cost, I’m gonna count all things lost.

Well I pledge my son, I pledge my wife, I pledge my head to heaven,

I pledge my son, I pledge my wife, I pledge my head to heaven, for the gospel.
– Keith Green