One thing above all I will never deny, and for that I am eternally grateful, however great his flaws and however wrong he was on certain details of philosophy and history: I have never met anyone anywhere like Francis Schaeffer, who took God so passionately seriously, people so passionately seriously, and truth so passionately seriously.
–Os [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Francis Schaeffer
Posted in Francis Schaeffer, Os Guinness, biography on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edith Schaeffer
Posted in Os Guinness, biography on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Edith Schaeffer was one of the most remarkable women of her generation, the like of whom we will not see again in our time. I have never met such a great heart of love, and such indomitable faith, tireless prayer, boundless energy, passionate love for life and beauty, lavish hospitality, irrepressible laughter, and seemingly limitless [...]
Christ is All, and in All
Posted in John Piper, Paul, racism, sermons on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Christ ethnic and social differences cease to be obstacles to deep, personal, intimate fellowship. Colossians 3:9-11, “You have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and [...]
Piper’s Mother
Posted in John Piper, racism, sermons on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My mother, who washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, “Shut up!” to my sister, would have washed my mouth out with gasoline if she knew how foul my mouth was racially. She was under God the seed of my salvation in more ways than one. When our church voted not to admit [...]
Job
Posted in John Piper, Poetry, sovereignty, suffering on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Light candle one, and count the cost;
And ponder everything we’ve lost.
And let us bow before the throne
Of God, who gives and takes his own,
And promises, whatever toll
He takes, to satisfy our soul.
Come learn the lesson of the rod:
The treasure that we have in God.
He is not poor nor much enticed
Who loses everything but Christ
…
This candle [...]
Luke 18.25
Posted in Karsten Piper, Poetry, health and wealth on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
He spread his blanket on the sand,
kneeled and arranged his bowls and tools:
hook, mallet, clamp, chisel, rasp, razor.
His smile glinted in the rongeur’s claws,
and upside down in the curette’s spoon.
Light shone out of the needle’s eye.
“Hoosh,” he said and began plucking hairs,
paring calluses, shearing wool, shaving
to the follicles, cutting to the quick.
He sorted these, trimming [...]
Ethical Ghosts and Skeletons
Posted in Carl Henry, Christ and Culture, Suffiency of Scripture, Word of God on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Biblical truth, trans-cultural as it is, has an indispensable message for contemporary culture. It addresses modern learning, ethics, economic and political concerns, and all the idolatries of our polytheistic society. It proclaims the gospel to a generation that is intellectually uncapped, morally un-zippered, and volitionally uncurbed. Those who consider the latest fads permanently will of [...]
Our Sin and the Cross
Posted in Cross, John Stott, sin on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For, whether we like it or not, we are involved.
–John Stott
The Cross of Christ (20th Anniversary Edition, p. 18).
(submitted by Shaw)
Agape
Posted in Peter Kreeft, love on February 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We fall in love but we do not fall in agape. We rise in agape
–Peter Kreeft
Fundamentals of the Faith
(submitted by Broun)
What Have I To Do with Worldly Things
Posted in Islam, Mohammad, not of this world on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What have I to do with worldly things. My connection with the world is like that of a traveler resting for a while underneath the shade of a tree and then moving on.
- Mohammad
as quoted in “The Message of Mohammad” by Athar Husain
(submitted by Shaw)
