The staff is reading through Life Together and discussing it at Staff Meetings. Life Together was written just before World War II by the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer when he was living and teaching at an underground seminary. The school was eventually found and shut down by the Nazis, but Bonhoeffer’s insight and wisdom on […]
C.S. Lewis has a great introduction to Athanasius’s “On the Incarnation” that makes me want to read more. He writes the following: Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes
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I was reading in a biography of D.L. Moody tonight and liked the way it wrote up the famous encounter Moody had with an evangelist on his British trip. I’ve never been too taken with this story or this quote until now: It was during this first visit to Britain that Moody heard the words
I’m giving a talk at a youth rally tomorrow to a couple hundred high school students. More than anything, I want to encourage them to pursue wisdom and knowledge — much like the writer of Proverbs counsels us all. I believe there are too many Christians who are content to think and reason poorly. Along
Sometimes things are better when they are said simply. I love this from Saint Ignatius: “It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.“
I like this quote by the late Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy: “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
I really like this quote that I ran across last night. “Our communities — the poor, the hungry, schools, businesses — must be different because our churches exist.”
I like what C.S. Lewis’ stepson Douglas Gresham says about friendship in his biography on Lewis called Jack’s Life. Gresham writes, “Now friendship in those days was a bit different from what it is today; friends did not have to agree on everything and often agreed on practically nothing.” He goes on to say, “In
I ran across these quotes from Reagan today… the guy had wit!! “The taxpayer: That’s someone who works for the federal government but doesn’t have to take the civil service examination.” – Ronald Reagan “If we ever forget that we’re one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.” – Ronald Reagan
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Here are some great quotes from the introduction and text of a book by the great Puritan John Owen that a friend of mine loaned me as I prepped for this week’s sermon. “By making life easier for ourselves in minimizing the nature and seriousness of our sin, we become greater victims of it.” “Be
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