How one intentional community engaged with a man asking for money
When God made the earth, He could have finished it - but He didn't. He left it as raw material to tease us, to tantalize us, to set us thinking and experimenting and risking and adventuring, and in this we... Continue Reading →
The Bible is shallow enough to be waded by a lamb and deep enough to be swum by an elephant. Gregory the Great
If I am devoted to the cause of humanity only, I will soon be exhausted and come to the place where my love will falter; but if I love Jesus Christ personally and passionately, I can serve humanity though men... Continue Reading →
I have seen a land shining with goodness where each man protects his brother's dignity as readily as his own, where war and want have ceased and all races live under the same law of love and honor. I have... Continue Reading →
You say it is hard to understand how a holy God could accept such an awful person as yourself. You express not only a low opinion of yourself, but also too low an opinion of the person, work, and promises... Continue Reading →
The only way to dispossess [the heart] of an old affection is by the expulsive power of a new one. Thomas Chalmers, The Expulsive Power of a New Affection
There is nothing wrong with the church that discipleship will not cure. Nothing. When you find problems in the church…it is always a lack of discipleship that led to it. Dallas Willard, Living in Christ's Presence
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. C.S.... Continue Reading →
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