Welcome to Timeless Truth with Pastor Jim Thomas. In season 2, Pastor Jim is leading us in a study of Mark. Today’s passage is Mark 10:13-16
Childlike vs. Childish
Impressionable vs. Cynical
Teachable vs. Arrogant
Dependent vs. Self-willed
Receptive vs. Resistant
Believing vs. Skeptical
Vulnerable vs. Calloused
“As Christianity understands it, God does not want us related to him as an invention to an inventor or pawns to a cosmic kibitzer. He wants us related to him as children are related to their father.”
Frederick Buechner, The Faces of Jesus
The Gospel combines the warmth of God’s welcome with the security of God’s faithfulness.
“Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16
“Never alone, never forgotten, never again condemned, never unloved, never rejected, never without help, never without hope, never left to battle alone, this is the life of every one of God’s children.”
Paul Tripp
“If we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, it would seem that Our Lord finds our desires, not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling around with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, 1941
