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"If you want a strong marriage you've got to maintain it... The grass is not greener on the other side of the fence; it's greener where you water it." Rick Warren
"Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life." Leonard Ravenhill
"...the providence of God is ususally something you should roll with." Doug Wilson
"Saying Yes to happiness often means saying No to yourself." Elizabeth Elliot
"Idols are often good things turned into a god thing, which is a bad thing." Mark Driscoll
"My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things - that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior." John Newton
"I believe in Christianity like I believe the sun has risen. Not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
"If you pray well, you will live well; if you live well, you will die well; and if you die well, all will be well." St. Augustine
"As the Lord's Prayer is the Prayer of prayers, and the Ten Commandments are the Laws of law, so the Apostles' Creed is the Creed of creeds." Philip Schaff, Creeds of Christendom
"If people like you and me find much that we don't naturally like in the public & corporate side of Christianity all the better for us: it will teach us humility and charity towards simple low-brow people who may be better Christians than ourselves." C.S. Lewis
"Adam and Eve were created to be one flesh, to express in bodily form the unity that exists among the persons of the Trinity." Peter Leithart
"If anything has been lost from our culture, it is the idea that human beings are privately, personally, individually, ultimately, inexorably accountable to God for their lives." R.C. Sproul
"The kindness of the world is far more formidable than its enmity. Many, who were prepared to stem the torrent of its opposition, have yielded with compromising indulgence to its paralyzing kindness." Charles Bridges
"Once you have made the World an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing." Screwtape to Wormwood
"Prayer isn't everything; but everything is done through prayer." -- Armin Gesswein
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world." -- C.S. Lewis
"Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer." -- Andrew Murray
"The church that multiplies committees and neglects prayer may be fussy, noisy, enterprising, but it labors in vain and spends its strength for nothing. It is possible to excel in mechanics and fail in dynamics. There is an abundance of machinery; what is lacking is power." -- Samuel Chadwick
"The church is a Body, not a business. It is an organism, not an organization! It is a family to be loved, not a machine to be engineered, and not a company to be managed." -- Rick Warren
"If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." -- Yogi Berra

Books

April 29, 2009

Walking With God, by John Eldredge

The first time I heard of John Eldredge it was for Wild At Heart his book about manhood. Though I am interested in biblical manhood I didn't read it. Why? Unfortunately it came out just after the theological controversy over Open Theism had rankled our denomination in the late 1990s. It was pointed out to me at this time that the author - though denying he was doing so - entertained many of the concepts of this heresy in his book and I just couldn't see putting up with it.

So when this book, Walking With God, by the same author was handed to me I was reluctant to spend any time on it. However, on a personal note, I am now dealing with cancer and am being driven to draw nearer to God in the process. The subtitle to the book: "Talk to Him. Hear from Him. Really" was what I wanted - so I began reading.

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March 29, 2009

The World of the Bible: Factual or Fantastic?

How influenced are you by the scientific mindset? Is science or scripture the pathway to truth? When they conflict which do you choose? Here's a challenge for you:

Did you know that the Bible teaches that unicorns once inhabited the world? Of course the English Bible you read today does not mention them, but the Bible your grandparents grew up with does!

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December 03, 2007

Pastor Bob Reads A Book

At the suggestion of a friend at church - our organist - I read a book he had just finished called Jim and Casper Go To Church. Published by the Barna people, it has been out for some time, but seems to be the latest book to be making a stir in the evangelical world. I say "book," but of course nowadays that includes the accompanying DVD, website(s), blog(s), merchandise, and probably even their own breakfast cereal by now.

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