People are… amusing? Is that the right word for this? I received these three comments on my Dawkins page. I reprint them here for your enjoyment. Let me know what you think…
Hello Michael,
Now the reason I came to your site is that an important message has been sent down, just like a News Update. I […]
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From the Desiring God blog:
1. They are humble and respectful and courteous and even funny (the ones I’ve met).
2. They believe in truth.
3. They believe that truth really matters.
4. They believe that the Bible is true, all of it.
5. They know that the Bible calls for some kind of separation from the world.
6. They […]
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Tim Challies is finally putting words down on paper. The Oakville, Ontario author is better known as a prolific and widely-read blogger and chronicler of various Christian conferences than a book author. Making a successful transition from blogger to published author is, so far, a rare occurrence but one that seems natural for […]
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Tim Challies’s new (and first!) book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment arrived in the mail today. I’ve already started reading it and will post a review when I finish.
Earlier this week I sent a suggestion to Tim that he blog about his experiences as a first-time published author for the benefit of those who hope […]
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Which Christian leader recently said:
“Perhaps we would do well to listen to the likes of Rabbi Harold Kushner, who contends that God is not really as powerful as we have claimed. Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. Kushner points out that omnipotence is a Greek philosophical concept, but […]
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Posted in Quotes and Comments, Theology, Misc on Dec 15th, 2007
We can be patient when things go against us
thankful when things go well
and for the future we can have
good confidence in our faithful God and Father
that nothing will separate us from his love.
All creatures are so completely in his hand
that without his will
they can neither move or be moved
- Heidelberg Catechism, Q & A 28
This […]
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Henry Zylstra said that “Contemplation represents not an escape from drudgery into entertainment, but the positive education of leisure.”
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote of people who deny themselves time for contemplation: “They have dwarfed and narrowed their soul by a life of all work, until here they are at forty with a listless attention, a mind […]
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Here’s the other half of the quote (read the first half here):
“The Irony of this is that in Revelation 19 where
Jesus comes on a white horse there’s a small detail that
people tend to miss, and that is that the way that Jesus
slays the nations is by a sword that comes out of his mouth.
That small […]
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Regarding the “conventional” view of eschatology:
“What you end up with is a trajectory for telling the story
where the afterlife becomes the point of the the Gospel and
not the coming of the kingdom of God into this world. And
there it really becomes a big deal.. is that then you end
up with an interpretation […]
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