I’m reading a biography about Oswald Chambers recently given to me by a friend. I’m finding it a fascinating read of a very fascinating man, whose personal history I know little of but whose writings I’ve read almost daily for over a decade. David McCasland notes, in his well researched and engaging prose, that the [...]
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Thought this was a kung-pow way to start the month: The first thing God does is get us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways [...]
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Last and most important, it is exactly this which explains what is so inexplicable to all the modern critics of the history of Christianity. I mean the monstrous wars about small points of theology, the earthquakes of emotion about a gesture or a word. It was only a matter of an inch; but an inch [...]
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No one doubts that an ordinary man can get on with this world: but we demand not strength enough to get on with it, but strength enough to get it on. Can he hate it enough to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing? Can he look up at its [...]
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I’m reading through Orthodoxy again. It’s a habit I can’t quite kick. What we suffer from to-day is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, [...]
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I picked up Frederick Buechner’s The Sacred Journey for some outdoor, summertime reading. It was fitting to read the book lying on the grass with the sun blazing a halo of glory as poplar tufts drifted uninhibited like enchanted spirits. The book examines sounds and snapshots from his life that impressed themselves, for whatever reason, [...]
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Our prayer is like pipes, through which water is carried from a large mountain stream to a town some distance away. Such water pipes don’t make the water willing to flow down from the hills, nor do they give it its power of blessing and refreshment. This is its nature. All they do is to [...]
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My advice would be not to worry about what is going to happen to you: about what you will have to eat or drink, or about what clothes you will wear. your life doesn’t consist of eating, and there is much more to your body than clothing. Take a lesson from the birds of heaven. [...]
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