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

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace. The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God. Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
Joni Eareckson Tada

Picking up any of a number of recent works on the NT canon, one is likely to find the author seeking the roots of the NT canon somewhere in the needs of the early church. One says it was the battle against heresy that prompted the church to find some authoritative texts on which to take its stand. Another points to the catechetical and liturgical need for new scriptures to nourish the spiritual life of the church. Another looks to Constantine the Great’s campaign to unify the empire, which allegedly required an agreed-upon set of scriptures as an essential tool to promote concord. These all, and more, may have played limited roles in bringing about the church’s agreement on the contents of the NT. But the ultimate foundations for the existence of a NT canon must be sought not in any of these historical exigencies, but in the gracious purpose of a self-revealing God whose word carries His own divine authority.
Charles Hill

    • Without Him There Is No Love At All

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    There Is No Love,
    That Can Take The Place Of GodOs Love
    There Is No Love,
    That Can Take The Place of God
    There Is No Love,
    Outside Of My Lord Jesus
    Without Him There Is No Love At All
    Father, We Praise And Glorify
    Your Holy Name
    Father, We Praise And Glorify You
    (repeat)

    Joy
    Peace

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