January 2011
7 posts
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“The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“God’s terrible insistence on human freedom is so absolute that he granted...”
– Philip Yancey
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“If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what...”
– C. S. Lewis
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Desiring God - Love
Does Love Seek Its Own?
Piper seems to think it does, but mentions that it will take some explaining to do.
A lot of people would offer 1 Corinthians 13:5 as evidence against Piper’s claim.
The New American Standard Bible says:
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
If this is true then is it wrong to...
“Jesus was a radical social activist, so his followers must be the same. It’s...”
– Greg Boyd (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
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Desiring God - Worship
Jesus says, “The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth”.
Worshiping is not about where you worship, it is about who you worship and how you worship. Church is just another place to worship, it is not the only place to worship. God has given us the Holy Spirit and we can worship him anywhere we want. He wants it to be real though,...
