He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Two for Tuesday: On Patience
Posted in George MacDonald, Patience, Rainer Maria Rilke on March 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just for Giggles
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Humor on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
ht: cawleyblog
Getting the Narrative Right
Posted in Tim Keller, grace on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I can never resisit excellent stuff from Tim Keller (ht: Denis Haack’s excellent blog, A Glass Darkly)
There are two basic narrative identities at work among professing Christians. The first is what I will call the moral-performance narrative identity. These are people who in their heart of hearts say, I obey; therefore I am accepted by [...]
Two For Tuesday: The Necessity of Love
Posted in D.A. Carson, Francis Schaeffer, Love on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
John’s point in 1 John 4, “God is love,” is that those who really do know God come to love that way too. Doubtless we do not do it very well, but aren’t Christians supposed to love the unlovable-even our enemies? Because the Gospel has transformed us, our love is to be self-originating, not elicited [...]
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