October 2011
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The Gospel and Poverty →
David French:
For many, many years I spent time “in the trenches” reaching out to at-risk youth. At first I was the stereotypical naive idealist. ”All they need is love and a chance,” I thought. Working in mentoring programs, I spent untold hours playing catch, going to little league games, going to parks, and just hanging out with at-risk kids as part of a variety of programs....
“It is quite true that if we took Christ’s advice we should soon be living in a...”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“Dealing with burning issues without being rooted in a deep personal relationship...”
– Henri J. M. Nouwen In The Name Of Jesus
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September 2011
3 posts
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“People often think of Christian morality as a kind of bargain in which God says,...”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Chrisitanity (via The Joyful Christian)
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“There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose...”
– Luke 13: 1-5
Here we have record of a remarkable incident, where some people come to Jesus wanting to know the reason for two local tragedies; a massacre at the temple by the Roman governor, and the collapse of a tower. The people come to Jesus and they ask “Why? Why did God allow...
August 2011
2 posts
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“There are many pastors today who, for fear of being branded...”
– John Stott, Between Two Worlds, p. 158
July 2011
3 posts
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jesuspaiditall:
Every sin,
from every person,
from every tribe,
from every nation,
from every race,
from every ancestry,
from every soul,
from every heart,
from every mind,
from the world,
from this generation,
from every generation before us,
from the Ancient Times,
from the Ancient of Ancients,
from every single second that ever existed,
even from the stolen forbidden fruit,
...
“But I submit to Chris Blackstone, there’s no difference between a Christian and...”
– TONY JONES, Theoblogy
Jesus was not a “biblical Christian”
(via christianthink)
Seems to me the word “biblical” has become doublespeak for a specific world view. I cringe when I hear it wielded like a hammer.
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“Transformation is not optional but mandatory for Christians. This was Lewis’s...”
– Alan Jacobs, The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis (p 219)
June 2011
1 post
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The Second Mile
The joyful gift of forgiving
Where does a mother garner the strength to stand in a courtroom and forgive the man who murdered her daughter? How do Jews ever forgive the Nazis for the Holocaust?
Jesus’ teachings on this subject were revolutionary: ‘Love your enemies as yourself. Pray for those who persecute you. Forgive people seventy times seven.’ Jesus reminds us that, just...
May 2011
6 posts
“Here’s a good test for yourself—how do you tip servers at a restaurant? Not just...”
– Joe Thorn, Note to Self: The Discipline of Preaching to Yourself
Anonymous asked: Why hasn't the world ended yet?
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“Osama Bin Laden’s dyed beard is blown half-off his skull. His body is submerged...”
– Russell Moore
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“Do you want evidence of God’s love? Look at the cross. Want evidence of God’s...”
– D.A. Carson
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Prayer of Sir Francis Drake
Disturb us, Lord, when We are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true Because we have dreamed too little, When we arrived safely Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when With the abundance of things we possess We have lost our thirst For the waters of life; Having fallen in love with life, We have ceased to dream of eternity And in our...
April 2011
8 posts
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“Jesus is not some stoic, passionless, rule-based Savior. On the contrary, He is...”
– The God Who is Undone
Click-through and read the whole article.
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“Christ suffered for our sins once for all time, the righteous for the...”
– 1 Peter 3:18
The summation of Easter.
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“The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let...”
– C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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“Gospel repentance is tapping into the joy of our union with Christ in order to...”
– Tim Keller
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“My father taught me that there is a particular kind of soft teaching that...”
– Douglas Wilson
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“We are afraid to go all the way in accepting the authority of God because of our...”
– J.I. Packer
March 2011
3 posts
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“If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want...”
– Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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It isn't St. Patrick's Day without the prayer...
jeffreyoverstreet:
No St. Patrick’s Day is complete without remembering St. Patrick’s prayer, known as “St. Patrick’s Breast-Plate.” A beautiful prayer from a man who was sold into slavery in his teens.
Here’s a literal translation from the old Irish text:
I bind to myself today The strong virtue of the Invocation of the Trinity: I believe the Trinity in the Unity The Creator of the...
February 2011
2 posts
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“In all thy actions think God sees thee; and in all His actions labor to see Him;...”
– QUARLES
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“Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us...”
– Tim Keller, “Counterfeit Gods”
via DailyKeller
January 2011
4 posts
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“This historic Christian doctrine of the divinity of Christ does not simply mean...”
– Elton Trueblood
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Your Worldview Isn't Enough →
What I’m not suggesting is that Christians lessen the intensity of their convictions as much as I am advocating for an appeal to our convictions that may need to be funneled through alternate means.
Take, for example, an appeal to the superiority of traditional marriage. If traditional marriage as understood by the Christian tradition is true and comports with reality, then it must be true...
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What Dawkins, Hawking and Hitchens know about God →
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“Late have I loved You, O Beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I loved You!...”
– St. Augustine of Hippo
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December 2010
4 posts
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“This is a healthy church, and healthy churches are hypocrisy farms. The more you...”
– Douglas Wilson
Wow.
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“Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your...”
– Tim Keller
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“The man whose soul is “growing” takes more interest in spiritual things every...”
– J.C. Ryle
Kevin DeYoung comments:
So I ask myself: Do I love Jesus a little more this year and football a little bit less? Do I love the word more and the world less? Do I love to long for spiritual things more and entertainment, politics, and hobbies less? Are the things that truly taste best...
“Some years ago I was lecturing in Santa Barbara and was introduced to a boy who...”
– Francis Schaeffer, Escape From Reason (via mollliiee)
November 2010
9 posts
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“It often happens that one who is not a Christian hath some knowledge, derived...”
– St. Augustine of Hippo
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“Verse 2. “Meditate.” Meditation doth discriminate and characterise a...”
– From Spurgeon’s Treasury of David—Psalm 1 quoting Thomas Watson’s Saints’ Spiritual Delight.
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“That is where they meet, the Upper Room, scene of the Last Supper, scene of the...”
– John Foster
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“To believe actively that our Heavenly Father constantly spreads around us...”
– A.W. Tozer, Knowledge of the Holy
“…sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it...”
– — Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
Tonight I went to listen to Donald Miller speak in a large church that I haven’t set foot in for a long time. Driving home under plum night skies with the radio turned off, the part I couldn’t stop replaying is him calling modern religion heresy. Him explaining how...
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“To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid ‘big’ sins — is...”
– - François Fénelon, The Seeking Heart
From the preface to Crazy Love by Francis Chan (read chapter 1 here)
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“The spirit of the Gospel is eminently that of the ‘open’ type which gives,...”
– Christopher Dawson
cf. The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
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“God is calling his body, the church, to step up and… represent his...”
– John Sowers in Fatherless Generation: Redeeming the Story
via Wesley Hill: The church as father to the fatherless
Wesley Hill on tumblr
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“In American society most people only know of either a mild & nominal...”
– Tim Keller
October 2010
5 posts
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“If you think you really understand the gospel - you don’t. If you think...”
– - Tim Keller
Uh oh
“Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save...”
– C H Spurgeon
[via @ScottyWardSmith]