Heart Talk per Leo

A man can

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

A man can be as truly a saint in a factory as in a monastery, and there is as much need of him in the one as in the other. ~ Robert J. McCracken

Charles Westley

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

May 21, 1738: Charles Wesley, who would co-found Methodism with his brother, experiences an evangelical conversion while sick with pleurisy. "In the name of Jesus of Nazareth, arise and believe, and thou shalt be healed of thy infirmities," a mysterious voice told him in his sickbed. "I believe, I believe," he replied. One year later on this date, he wrote "O for a Thousand Tongues" to commemorate the event (see issue 31: The Golden Age of Hymn). CT Today in Christian History

To t’other world

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

If your riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you to t’other world? ~ Benjamin Franklin

Mirror

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Do not shelter the mirror which reflects your soul’s lack of beauty; rather welcome the truth, and believe that next to the knowledge of God nothing is so precious as the knowledge of self. ~ Jean Nicolas Grou

New Testament

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

September 21, 1522: First edition of Martin Luther's German translation of the New Testament is published (see issue 34: Luther's Early Years). CT Today in Christian History

Politics

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

May 20, 1960: Six months before John F. Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is elected president of the United States, the Southern Baptist Convention condemns the election of Catholics to public office. "When a public official is inescapably bound by the dogma and demands of the church," it declared, "he cannot consistently separate himself from these. CT Today in Christian History

You are

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

You are not a reservoir with a limited amount of resources; you are a channel attached to unlimited divine resources. ~ Unknown

The Prince of Preachers

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlights of affliction. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Prince of Preachers (1834-1892)

Sink

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Sink into the sweet and blessed littleness, where thou livest by grace alone. Contemplate with delight the holiness and goodness in God, which thou dost not find in thyself. How lovely it is to be nothing when God is all! ~ Gerhardt Tersteegen

Be not afraid

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God; all the danger is of saying too little. ~ Matthew Henry

Be not afraid

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sat, 30 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Be not afraid of saying too much in the praises of God; all the danger is of saying too little. ~ Matthew Henry

Mercy

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Fri, 29 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Mercy imitates God, and disappoints Satan. ~ John Chrysostom

A life

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

A life totally consecrated to God sees all of its tasks as God-appointed. ~ Unknown

Shame

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

I am filled with shame and confusion, when I reflect on the one hand upon the great favors which God has done, and incessantly continues to do; and on the other, upon the ill use I have made of them, and my small advancement in the way of perfection. ~ Brother Lawrence

Day by Day*

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

May 17, 1971: The musical Godspell, based on Matthew's gospel, opens at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York. CT Today in Christian History

Day by Day

Day by day, Dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: To see thee more clearly,

Love thee more dearly, Follow thee more nearly, Day by day.

*St. Richard of Chichester, 1197-1253, "Day by Day", in the Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States America,1940, Hymn 429.

Face

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Affirmed

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

[The family is] founded on the stable union between a man and a women. ~ Pope Leo XIV

If

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

If you're male, you're a "he." If you're female, you're a "she." If you're anything else, you're "mentally unstable." ~ Thomas DeVore

Mercies

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

It’s not only God’s mercies that are new every morning. It’s His miracles! Every day, without exception, we experience miracles big and small, visible and invisible, tangible and intangible. ~ Mark Batterson

Smile

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Glory

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

GLORY, GLORY, GLORY!

To repent

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

To repent is to alter one’s way of looking at life; it is to take God’s point of view instead of one’s own. ~ Unknown

World-System

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

World-System — meaning a system characterized by order.

Satan claimed to be ruler of the world (Matt. 4:8-9), and this was conceded by the Lord Jesus when on earth (John 12-31; 14:30; 18:36). Satan could not conquer Him, his temptations being futile; but he goes on with the same temptations, and has succeeded astoundingly with the monstrosity which calls itself Christendom; blind, unbelieving Christendom attempts to rule the world, to be on the throne, basing her principles upon a foundation subtly furnished by Satan — greed, power, world-conquest, selfishness, pleasure. The world-system as set up by Christendom is impressive — intellectual, externally religious, learned, cultured, but agitated with national and business competitions, enforced by armies and navies, and dominated over all by its real ruler, Satan. ~ Millard F. Day

God

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

God has an exasperating habit of laying his hands on the wrong man. ~ Joseph Blinco

Kingdom of God

noreply@blogger.com (Leo J Lenschow) — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:00:00 +0000

While a man rests on his own merits for acceptance with God, it is of little consequence whether he be a pagan idolator, or a proud, ignorant Pharisee. I know not which of the two is most distant from the kingdom of God. ~ James Milner