You rack your brain to solve the mystery of the Savior, but you would do better to examine the puzzle of your own heart. You should be wondering why you are so impenetrable: why your intentions, which are always so noble, are followed by so few good deeds; why, despite your pious impulses, your life [...]
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John Piper
Posted in Beauty, Commitment, Creator, God, Incarnation on May 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You find a God whose commitment to the cause of his people is grounded not in his people but in himself. His passion to save and to purify feeds itself not from the shallow soil of our value but from the infinite depth of his own…The deepest reason given for God’s commitment to his people [...]
Soren Kierkegaard
Posted in Blindness, Fear, Freedom, Masquerade, Meaning on May 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Do you not know that there comes a midnight hour when everyone has thrown off his mask? Do you believe that life will always let itself be mocked? Do you think you can slip away a little before midnight to avoid this? Or are you terrified by it? I have seen men in real life [...]
Augustine
Posted in Creator, Heart, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. (St. Augustine, [354-430])
Blaise Pascal
Posted in Belief, Exclusivity, Experience, God, Gospel, Heart, Image of God, Jesus Christ, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus (Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist [1623-1662])
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Christian Life, Discipleship, Experience, Faith, Gospel, Humanity, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Story on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What happens here [in Mark’s Gospel] is that we are invited into becoming full participants in the story of Jesus and shown how to become such participants. We are not simply told that Jesus is the Son of God; we not only become beneficiaries of his atonement; we are invited to die his death and [...]
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Beauty, Creation, Faith, World on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The world, for all its vaunted celebration of sensuality, is relentlessly anaesthetic, obliterating feeling by ugliness and noise, draining the beauty out of people and things so that they are functionally efficient, scornful of the aesthetic except as it can be contained in a museum or flower garden. (Eugene Peterson, Subversive Spirituality, p. 14)
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