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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.

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