Quote from Commentary on Second Corinthians

While Paul suffered, he was not overwhelmed. He came out at last as victor rather than victim. This cannot be said of Paul’s enemies, and the early tyrants and persecutors of Christianity. Those who sought to destroy these Christians came themselves to destruction. And what destruction it was! Nero was driven from his throne and, perceiving his life in danger became his own executioner; Domitian was killed by his own servants; Hadrian died of a distressing disease, which was accompanied by great mental agony; Severus never prospered in his affairs after he persecuted the Church, and was killed by the treachery of his son; Maximinus reigned but three years, and died a violent death; Decius was drowned in a marsh, and his body never found; Valerian was taken prisoner by the Persians, and after enduring the horrors of captivity for several years, was flayed alive; Diocletian was compelled to resign his empire, and became insane; Macimanus Valerius was deprived of his government and strangled himself; Macimanus Galerius was suddenly and awfully removed by death.

- “Second Corinthians: Where Life Endures” By Roy L. Laurin page # 202

Quotes and Stories

You will never have peace without a holy life. One soldier’s grave said,
“Here lies a soldier whom all must applaud.
Who fought many battles at home and abroad.
But the hottest engagement he was ever in was the conquest of self and the battle of sin.”

When the air balloon was first invented, a matter of fact gentleman contemptuously asked Dr. Franklin what was the use of it.
The doctor answered this question by asking another: “What is the use of a new-born infant? It may become a man.”
This anticipation of great things springing from small beginnings should induce us to put into practice those holy promptings which at certain seasons move our souls.
What if we ourselves and our work should be little in Zion; cannot the Lord cause the grandest issues to proceed from insignificant beginnings?” -
- Spurgeon

Willing to Wait

A willing wait can work wonders.
It can quiet our heart
And keep us from making blunders.
The waiting can give us wisdom
To know how to forge ahead,
So our flesh does not lead us,
And we can be Holy Spirit led.
- Poetic Parson
Pastor Frank Moore

Quotes

R.J. Rushdoony once stated, in his work of April 1984, on a Christian Manifesto,
“Sovereignty is an attribute of God alone, not of man, nor of the state. God alone is Lord…over all things; over state, school, family, vocations, society and all things else…
Civil rulers who rule without the Lord and His Law are, as Augustine said, ‘no different than the mafia, only more powerful’.”

God is Love

As I see the tinted mountains
Towering to great heights above,
I can see the God of beauty
With His hand let down in love.

He gave the moon to rule the evening
And the sun to rule the day;
They have taken turns of shining.

- Poetic Parson
Pastor Frank Moore