“Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.”
– Hercule Poirot
Questions to Take Back to School
August 30th, 2008
To make the most of our educations, whether formal or “continuing”, as they say, we should come with questions needing answers, not just wait for others to pose questions to us. In The Reason for God, Tim Keller gives us a good list with which to begin:
For Those We Cannot Be With This Christmas
December 24th, 2007
In 1513, a sixty-eight year old man wrote a letter on Christmas Eve which has spoken for many for centuries.
100 Insights
October 19th, 2007
After thirty years as a Christian freelancewriter Dan Edelen at Cerulean Sanctum:Looking for the 1st Century Church in 21st Century America has 100 important insights for all Christians, regardless of the length of their membership in the Kingdom of God or of their theologican training.
He begins
1. Love God. Love people. It’s that simple.
2. Anytime we interact with another person, we should ask the Lord, In what ways can I help this person grow closer to You?
3. Christians who take time to observe the world around them see God and gain wisdom.
4. The most worthy lessons of the Kingdom take the entirety of one’s life to fully learn.
5. You are never more alone than in an unfriendly church.
Read the rest here.
A Quotation Worth Mulling
August 25th, 2007
“The future of the Gospel is not in the hands of the people running these religious institutions which can not and will not change; it rests in the soul of the person you ask to pass the butter.”
– Remonstrans, the erudite but cranky blogger, who always provokes.
