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Each month the Glen Park Gospel Church produce a one page newsletter called the Green Leaf. It's available from the chapel each Sunday. Most months include brief quotes which we thought you might also appreciate reading.

12/1995

Come!

Come first to Bethlehem where Christ was born:

See Him, the heavenly King, that Christmas morn
Low in the manger laid: No pomp or show -
T'was His eternal love that bade Him go

Come to Gethsemane: Watch Jesus there:
Witness His agony, kneeling in prayer.
Great drops of blood He sweat, beneath the load:
Of salvations plan, dark Calvary road.

Come now to calvary: Look there and see
Christ Jesus crucified, for you and me:
Cruel his sufferings, pierced hands, side and head;
Sins tremendous load - in our stead.

Come to the empty tomb: Jesus is risen
From the grave and ascended into heaven.
One day He will return to claim His throne
And reign for ever, the King and His own.

- Modified from a poem by Mary Gorrie

2/1996

Men ablaze are invincible:
Hell trembles when men kindle:
The strongholds of Satan are invincible
against everything but fire.

- Samuel Chadwick

3/1996

Captains and conquerors leave a little dust
And kings a dubious legend of their reigns
The swords of Cesar now are left to rust
God's word the Bible, evermore remains.

4/1996

O sacred Head, once wounded,
With grief and shame weighed down,
Once scornfully surrounded
With thorns, Thine only crown;
How pale You were with anguish,
With sore abuse and scorn!
How did that visage languish
Which once was bight as morn.

What thou, my Lord, hast suffered
Was all for sinners gain:
Forgiveness free is offered
Yet, Thine the deadly pain;
Lo, here I fall, my Saviour!
'This I deserve Thy place;
Please, in Thy love and favour
Vouchsafe to me Thy grace.

What language shall I borrow
To thank Thee, dearest friend,
For this, Thy dying sorrow,
Thy pity without end?
O makeme Thine forever,
And should I faunting be,
Lord let me never, never
Outlive my love for Thee.

- Anon

6/1996

The foundations of national glory are set in the homes of the people. They will only remain unshaken while the family life of our nation is strong, pure and simple.

- King George IV.

7/1996

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made known, so that men are without excuse." Romans 1:20.

And nature, the old nurse, took
The child upon her knee,
Saying, 'Here is a story book
Thy Father hath written for thee.'
'Come, wander with me,' she said
'Into regions yet untrod,
And read what is still unread
In the manuscripts of God.'

- Henry W Longfellow

10/1996

'There is no God', the foolish said;
    But none, 'There is no sorrow'.
And nature oft the cry of faith
    In bitter need will borrow.
Eyes which the preacher could not school
    By wayside graves are raised;
And lips say, 'God be pitiful;'
    Who never said, 'God be praised.'

- Elizabeth Browning

3/1998

What a joy it is to share with those who have just come to a faith in Jesus Christ. A new Christian once wrote:

"I think I have discovered one thing: one can't have Christ and be miserable at the same time. If anyone is miserable he hasn't got the real thing, which reminds me of what Lord Wolseley said, ‘A man without hope makes an indifferent soldier; one without cheerfulness is worse than useless'. And as General Booth used to say, ‘There is no occasion to put off ‘the old man' and put on the old woman.'

"It seems extraordinary to me what pleasure there is in prayer and reading the Bible. I was wondering why it had no appeal to me before, it was not long before I had the answer - ‘The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned'. People believe in wireless waves, but do not trouble to investigate a Power that will help them in every incident of their lives, a Power that is always at hand."

From "This One Thing I Know" by A J Russell,
Hodder & Stoughton, London p191.

10/1998

God does not forget the sinner, just his sin.

- Richard DeHaan

11/1998

"He who tends a fruit tree will eat its produce, and he who looks after his employer will be rewarded"

- Proverbs

12/1998

Oh, fix our earnest gaze
    so wholly, Lord, on you,
That with your beauty occupied,
    all else is dimmer view.

- Selected

11/1999

"God loves us out of his own nature, and not on conditions"
- Beecher

1/2001

2001

‘Another year - another century - another millennium'; but life goes on one day at a time.
Treasure every moment that you have.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is mystery.
Today is a gift; that's why it is called ‘the present'.
Jesus said, "My name is I am."
When you live in the past with its failures and regrets, He is not there. His name is not, ‘I was'.
When you live in the future with its uncertainties and fears, it is hard. His name is not, ‘I will be'.
When you live today for what it is, it is not impossible. Jesus said, "Be not afraid, I am."

- Author Unknown (Adapted)

7/2001

Some day that golden dawn will come
When I have reached my journey's end
And all my work on earth is done
My guide has now become my friend

5/2002

Proverbs

Here are some proverbs we have come across in our daily devotions. Those unacknowledged are assumed anonymous. Some have been adapted.

• Gospel starts with ‘go'.
• Counting your days, make your days count, lost time is never found!
• With God's strength behind you, His love within you, and His arms underneath you, you are more than sufficient for the task ahead of you - W A Ward.
• What would you be worth if you lost all your money?
• To escape God's justice, flee to His mercy.
• True wisdom consists principally of two parts: the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. - John Calvin.
• The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the Son of Righteousness. - Matthew Henry.
• Instead of pointing your finger, open your hand.
• Silence isn't always golden, sometimes its just yellow!
• Every lock of sorrow has a key of promise to fit!
• Live innocently, God is watching! - Linnaeus.
• When men forsake Godly principles, they invite devilish problems.
• True faith is not a burden to carry on your back, it is a song to fill your heart.
• Floating members make a church sink!
• God intends trials to make us better, not bitter.
• Live for thy neighbour, if thou wouldst live for God! - Seneca.
• Christians are either bibles or libels, depending on what they put first in their lives! - F B Meyer.
• Looking down your nose gives you a wrong slant on life!
• It is comforting to know that ‘He who guides us with His eye' sees tomorrow clearer than we see today - Bosch.

11/2002

The Parable of the Fishes

The fishes of the sea live in salt water, yet when we eat boiled fish there is no salt taste in the water in which they have been boiled. They have lived in an environment impregnated with salt, yet they have kept free from its flavour. So do true Christians live in the world, without taking it into their hearts.

- Sadu Sundar Singh

2/2003

Faith is like muscle which grows stronger with use,
rather than rubber which weakens when it is stretched.

- J O Fraser

2/2003

Little faith may bring your soul to heaven,
but great faith will bring heaven to your soul.

- Anon

3/2003

Prayer is a mighty instrument,
not for getting man's will done in heaven,
but getting God's will done on earth.

- Robert Law

4/2003

Faithfulness to principle
is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

- Frances Ridley Havergal

6/2003

'We believe in the providence of God,
 but we don't believe half enough of it.'

- Charles H. Spurgeon.

7/2003

"We unconsciously imitate what pleases us and
  approximate to the characters that we most admire"

- CN Bouvee 1820-1904

8/2003

"Happiness is an emotion.
     Joy is an attitude.
  Emotions come and go,
     but attitudes come and grow."

- J J Morgan

9/2003

"God's people live by promises,
  not by explanations."

- Warren Wiersby

10/2003

"The living Christ is here to bless you.
  The nearer you keep to Him,
  the nearer you will be to one another."

- Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher,
  at the wedding of Queen Elizabeth II.

11/2003

'Middle age is that difficult period
 between adolescence and retirement
 when you have to take care of yourself.'
- Anon.

'Middle age is when
 your age begins to show
 around your middle'
- Bob Hope.

1/2004

'God does not waste suffering . . .
 If He ploughs,
 it is because He purposes a crop.'
- Isobel Khun
  in Green Leaf in Drought Time

2/2004

'Not a great faith we need,
 but faith in a great God.'
- J Hudson Taylor

3/2004

It is attitude, not arteries
that determines the vitality
of our maturing years
- J Oswald Sanders

5/2004

'When I bring my sins to the Lord Jesus
 he casts them into the depths of the sea -
 forgiven and forgotten.
 He also puts up a sign,
"No fishing allowed!" '
- Corrie ten Boom

6/2004

'The ministry of the Holy Spirit is Christo-centric.
 The test for any professed movement of the Spirit,
 whether in personal or corporate experience,
 is the place it gives to Christ.'
- J. Oswald Sanders.

7/2004

'We may easily be too big for God to use,
 but never too small.'
- D L Moody.

6/2008

“When we long for life without difficulties,
 remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds
 and diamonds are made under pressure.”
- Prayer of Peter Marshall

4/2021

"If you look to the world, you'll be distressed.
 If you look within, you'll be depressed.
 But if you look to Christ, you'll be at rest."
- Corrie ten Boom who suffered in a Nazi death camp.

5/2021

"You'll never know that God is all you need
 until God is all you've got."
- Rick Warren

6/2021

"The glow of the love of God in Christ
 is able to melt the fetters of sin and unbelief that bind us
 and to free us to fall into the open arms of His love."
- Professor O. Hallesby

8/2021

"There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry.
 Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him."
- Max Lucado from Traveling Light.

9/2021

"People who place their hope in God can withstand every storm in life,
 because they have built their lives on the only storm-proof foundation in existence."
See Matthew 7:24-27
- Dr David Jeremiah

10/2021

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all;
 but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."
- Martin Luther

11/2021

Jesus calls you brother. He calls you sister.
The question is, "Do you call Him Saviour?"
- Max Lucado

12/2021

"Sowing the seeds of God's Kingdom in one life
 has the power to transform whole communities"
- David Wraight

1/2022

He hung a lantern in the sky -
  The way to show;
  Then slipped below
  Into a stable shed, that so
The simple and the wise
  Might see, and know
  That God has not
  His dwelling in the skies!
- R.E.Cleeve

2/2022

"Do your little bit of good where you are;
 it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."
- Desmond Tutu, (African Bishop recently passed into his heavenly reward.)

3/2022

"The best part of a good person's life:
 their little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
- William Wordsworth

4/2022

"If you must speak your mind, then mind how you speak.
 God is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for God."
- Harry Ironside's Bible

6/2022

"Nobody cares about how much you know
 until they can see how much you care."
- Tony Rinaudo, in his book 'The Forest Underground'

7/2022

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power
 the world will know peace."
- Jimi Hendrix

8/2022

"Sowing seeds of peace is like sowing beans.
 You don't know why it works, you just know it does.
 Seeds are planted, and the top soils of hurt are shoved away.
 Never underestimate the power of a seed."
- Max Lucado

9/2022

"The very first step to becoming a follower of Christ
 is the humble admission that we need Him.
 Nothing keeps us out of the Kingdom of God
 more surely than our pride and self-sufficiency."
- John Stott

11/2022

"I have held many things in my hands and I have lost them all;
 but whatever I have placed in God's Hands, that I still possess."
- Martin Luther

12/2022

"None of us including me, ever do great things.
 But we can do small things, with great love,
 and together we can do something wonderful."
- Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

1/2023

God wants to be your dwelling place.
He has no interest in being a weekend getaway or a Sunday bungalow or a summer cottage.
Don't consider using God as a vacation cabin or an eventual retirement home.
He wants you under His roof now and always.
He wants to be your mailing address, your point of reference; He wants to be your home.
- Max Lucado. (John 14:23)

3/2023

The path to the cross began not in Pilate's court but in the halls of Heaven
when the Father sent His Son to begin the journey in search of His wayward children.
The long path to the cross tells us exactly how far God will go
to call His children back to Himself.
- Max Lucado

4/2023

Like everything else in Jesus' life, His resurrection drew forth contrasting responses.
Those who believed were transformed; infused with hope and courage, they went out to change the world.
Those who did not believe found ways to ignore the strong evidence.
Jesus had predicted as much:
"If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets,
 they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead."
- Philip Yancy

5/2023

"The person who would seek God's forgiveness for sins
 committed as a Christian within the family
 will seek it in vain unless that person shows forgiveness to other people."
- Alan Redpath

6/2023

"The purest form of love is given with no thought of return.
 Measured by this standard, earnest prayer for others is a magnificent act of love."
- David Hubbard,
from 'Prayer' by Philip Yancy

7/2023

"Love was compressed for all history in the lonely figure on the cross,
 who said that He could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission,
 but chose not to because of us.
 At Calvary, God accepted His own unbreakable terms of justice.
 Thus the cross, a stumbling block to some,
 became the cornerstone of Christian faith."
- Philip Yancy

8/2023

"How would you measure up to a merit based salvation
 if the standard entry level of being good
 was living a life of complete sacrifice and selflessness?
 God's standard is even greater- it's perfection.
 None of us can attain that through our efforts.
 Thankfully, God's provision is Grace- a free gift of forgiveness
 and eternal life to all who receive it in repentance and faith.
 That's what Jesus' death and resurrection were all about:
 paying the penalty we deserve for our failures
 and then rising to give us new life with Him-forever."
- Lee Strobel in A Case for Miracles

9/2023

"Do all the good you can,
 By all the means you can,
 In all the ways you can,
 In all the places you can,
 At all the times you can,
 To all the people you can,
 As long as ever you can."
- John Wesley's goal for goodness.
From Billy Graham's Unto the Hills.

10/2023

"When you come to Calvary you can't go to the cross
 with just your head and not your heart.
 It is a heart splitting hour of emotion.
 Those are nails in those Hands.
 That is the Son of God on the cross.
 It is us who put Him there."
- Max Lucado

11/2024

"We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe,
 by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are,
 but by showing them a light that is so lovely
 that they want with all their hearts to know the source of it."
- Madeleine L'Engle.

12/2023

"The birth of Jesus was so important that it split history into two parts.
 Everything that has ever happened on this planet falls into a category of before Christ and after Christ....
 This Galilean, who in his lifetime spoke to fewer people
 than would fill just one of the many stadia Billy Graham has filled,
 changed the world more than any other person....
 According to Jesus, what I think about Him and how I respond
 will determine my destiny for all eternity."
- Philip Yancy, Excerpts from "The Jesus I Never Knew" (Luke 12:8)

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