“There was a girl he had met at one of these studio contrivances– a glorious, impudent, lucid, open-minded girl with hair the color of Culmbacher, and a good-natured way of despising you. She was a New York girl.”
–O. Henry
The Plutonian Fire
Archive for January, 2008
A New York Girl
Posted in Literature, O. Henry on January 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lover
Posted in Derek Webb, Jesus, Songs, freedom, love on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve always been a lover from before I drew a breath
Some things I loved easy and some I loved to death.
Because love’s no politician, it listens carefully.
So of those who come I can’t lose one, so you will be set free.
–Derek Webb
“Lover”
She Must and Shall Go Free
To Bless All the Families of the Earth
Posted in God of All Nations, John Stott, election, to bless all families on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“…we should never allow ourselves to forget that the Bible begins with the universe, not with the planet earth; then with the earth, not with Palestine; then with Adam the father of the human race, not with Abraham the father of the chosen race.
Since, then, God is the Creator of the universe, the earth and [...]
The Aroma of Christ
Posted in Paul, Scripture, aroma of Christ, glory, sovereignty on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of Him everywhere.
For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to [...]
A Far Better Thing
Posted in Charles Dickens, Literature, redemption, sacrifice on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
–Sydney Carton, as he is executed by the guillotine, sacrificing his once aimless life in place of his friend
Charles Dicken’s A Tale of Two Cities
The Boundaries of their Dwelling Place
Posted in God of All Nations, Paul, Scripture, sovereignty on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far [...]
