“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as […]
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May 30, 2017 Today I cleaned a clean carpet. My favorite kind. It looks great when I’m done. Of course, it looked pretty good before I started. Funny thing with these easy cleanups, the customer will come in after I’ve cleaned and say, “Oh my, what a difference. The colors are so much brighter!” I […]
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“There are two pains in life. There is the pain of discipline and the pain of disappointment. If you can handle the pain of discipline, then you’ll never have to deal with the pain of disappointment.” Nick Saban, Head Football Coach, University of Alabama Variation: There are two pains – the pain of discipline and […]
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C.S. Lewis said by contrast that sometimes the impression preachers leave is that they are simply… “mild-mannered people exhorting mild-mannered people to be more mild-mannered.” That is not the call of Paul. Or of Jesus. Mark Labberton http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2005/summer/10.30.html?paging=off Leadership’s Top 40: #12 Our Daunting Hope: Can preaching really change anyone? by Rev. Mark Labberton More […]
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John Piper: “We have come to take all the relatively minor benefits of following Jesus and elevated them above the massive, real pleasures of knowing him, loving him, and dying and being with him forever. Everything’s out of proportion in typical American Christianity.” Piper: “I don’t want to be a comfort-seeking, entertainment-addicted, security-craving, approval-desiring Christian.” […]
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