Sermon on the Mount from Walgreen's
The Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments are the Doctor’s prescribed health regimen, not the Employer’s job description. ‚Äì John Piper, Desiring God
David's Super-Identity
The other day the boys were playing outside on their scooters while I was getting ready to plant some grass seed. They were skating back and forth and talking a mile a minute at 120 decibels. Isaac skated over and asked ‚ÄúWhat is Batman‚Äôs secret identity again?‚Äù ‚ÄúBruce Wayne‚Äù I told him. ‚ÄúOk, David, since…
Bibleman vs. Colin
“If you obey God, He’ll make you happy and successful.” – Bibleman Just to let you know, that isn’t true in the way that most people understand that statement to be true. I don’t like Bibleman. It seems like its the bad parts of 80s theology with the special effects of the 90s. Some of…
"Are We There Yet?"
I don’t want you to get to heaven and ask the question, “are we there yet?” I want you to have lived the life in this community that you tasted it and touched it and felt it and were a part of it all the time. -Rick McKinley, Imago Dei Church
C.S. Lewis on Experiencing the Real God
In a way I quite understand why some people are put off by Theology. I remember once when I had been giving a talk to the RA.F., an old, hard-bitten officer got up and said, “I’ve no use for all that stuff. But, mind you, I’m a religious man too. I know there’s a God….
C.S. Lewis on Development
“Niceness”-wholesome, integrated personality-is an excellent thing. We must try by every medical, educational, economic, and political means in our power, to produce a world where as many people as possible grow up “nice”; just as we must try to produce a world where all have plenty to eat. But we must not suppose that even…
A few more good Lewis quotes
Here are a few more quotes from Mere Christianity In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should…
Finished with this Mere Christianity
I don’t know if Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis is for everybody, but it does have some really good points and ideas and images in it. A man who changed from having Bios [natural life] to having Zoe [life in Christ] would have gone through as big a change as a statue which changed from…
I Began Reading an Interesting Book Yesterday
I started reading “Mere Christianity” yesterday while waiting for my Mac to capture a couple hours of video. It was left in my office by whoever was here before. What makes this book so interesting, is not just that it is a 1963 printing of it, which makes it old and smell good, but it…
Jesus Loved the Screw Ups
“Christianity is the only religion that states that God loves the unrighteous more than the righteous.” -Paul Tournier, quoted by Leonard Sweet in Out of the Question…Into the Mystery