Thought of the Day

To know Him is to love Him, and to know Him better is to love Him more.  — A. Tozer

Only 5% Of Americans Tithe

News today:

A recent poll by pollster George Barna shows that only 5 percent of Americans say they tithe, or give at least 10 percent of their income to religious congregations and charitable groups. According to other studies on church giving, congregants give an average of 2.58 percent of their income to their churches. That’s down from 3.11 percent of their income in 1968, according to studies published by Empty Tomb, a ministry that studies church finances. “Tithing is in decline,” said the Rev. William Hull, a research professor at Samford University and a Baptist minister. “The older generation was taught to tithe. It’s not being taught very much any more.”

Oh, it’s being taught. It’s just not being practiced.

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Thought of the Day

A. Tozer wrote “A strange thing under the sun is crossless Christianity. The cross of Christendom is a no-cross, an ecclesiastical symbol. The cross of Christ is a place of death. Let each one be careful which cross he carries.” How very, very true. So few today are interested in the truth of the cross. Which is why Christianity languishes.

Photos From Homecoming 2008

Whitney Graduates

And you can see a few photos of it here.  Congratulations to all the grads and if you have photos of your graduate you would like to share with others, please let me know.

Anessa’s Graduation / Birthday

Thought of the Day

An inadequate conception of God must result in a weak faith, for faith depends upon the character of God just as a building rests upon its foundation. This explains why unbelief is such a grievous sin; it is pure libel against the Lord of heaven and earth. Unbelief judges God to be unworthy of confidence and withholds its trust from Him. Can there be a more heinous sin than this? – A. Tozer

Signs of the Times

On Prayer

Men may, and often do, pray without faith (though this is not true prayer), but it is not thinkable that men should have faith and not pray. The biblical formula is The prayer of faith. Prayer and faith are here bound together by the little preposition of, and what God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Faith is only genuine as it eventuates into prayer. When Tennyson wrote More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, he probably uttered a truth of vaster significance than even he understood. While it is not always possible to trace an act of God to its prayer-cause, it is yet safe to say that prayer is back of everything that God does for the sons of men here upon earth. One would gather as much from a simple reading of the Scriptures. What profit is there in prayer? Much every way. Whatever God can do faith can do, and whatever faith can do prayer can do when it is offered in faith. An invitation to prayer is, therefore, an invitation to omnipotence, for prayer engages the Omnipotent God and brings Him into our human affairs. Nothing is impossible to the man who prays in faith, just as nothing is impossible with God. This generation has yet to prove all that prayer can do for believing men and women. – A. Tozer