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Category Archives: Quotations
Where is Happiness Found?
I was reading Corrie Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place where before the war she lived with three aunts in the home, Tante Anna, Tante Bep and Tante Jans. Tante Anne was the only healthy one and she gave herself to keeping house … Continue reading
Corrie Ten Boom Forgives Her SS Nazi Jailer
From The Hiding Place I CONTINUED to speak, partly because the home in Bloemendaal ran on contributions, partly because the hunger for Betsie’s story seemed to increase with time. I traveled all over Holland, to other parts of Europe, to … Continue reading
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NT Wright at Calvin Missional Gathering
Vimeo How the cross works in terms of the redemption of real time and space, beginning at minute 37.
CS Lewis: The Inner Ring
CS Lewis Society of California The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, … Continue reading
Charles Taylor on how “The Reform” remade how we try to save the world
In Charles Taylor’s long pathfinding of our road to secularization one crucial step he notes in the tradition of “Latin Christianity” the development of what he calls “the new police state” (Kindle Loc. 1440) where churches, governments and leaders attempt to … Continue reading
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CS Lewis on Whether Christianity Improves People
From Mere Christianity Suppose we have come down to brass tacks and are now talking not about an imaginary Christian and an imaginary non-Christian, but about two real people in our own neighbourhood. Even then we must be careful to … Continue reading
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John Calvin on Jacob Wrestling with God
Moreover, it is not said that Satan, or any mortal man, wrestled with Jacob, but God himself: to teach us that our faith is tried by him; and whenever we are tempted, our business is truly with him, not only … Continue reading
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Paul’s Collection for the Jerusalem Church
I posted this last year as a part of sermon post. It informs the adaptive change conversation too. I really hadn’t thought of the Paul story and the Jerusalem collection from this perspective before. I was suspicious, partly because of … Continue reading
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4 Foundations of Science by the Cappadocian Theologians
Of special significance for the subsequent development of Europe is the work done during the latter part of the fourth century by Christian theologians in discussion with the science of their day. Christopher Kaiser, in his book Creation and the … Continue reading
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Ministry as Difficult As It Ought To Be
From Will Willimon Quotes North American parishes are in a bad neighborhood for care-giving. Most of our people (at least those we are willing to include in mainline churches) solve biblically legitimate need (food, clothing, housing) with their check books. … Continue reading
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