Author | Vagabond Preacher | Lover of the Poor | Grandpa
“Christian faith is about truth, and whenever you try to mix power and truth, power usually wins. Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” Cal Thomas, vice president of the Moral Majority from 1980 to 1985 “Within its proper bounds — confined to stunts on a desert island or in a fake boardroom — the ethos …
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You turned my mourning into dancing. Psalm 30: 11 If you ask me, a lot of Christians worship the idol of “Positivity.” They’re afraid to grieve and are self-medicating on happiness. Though I advocate no grim view of God or the practice of sour spirituality I just think that in our effort to avoid despondency, …
I want to live the rest of my time here in such a way that when I leave this place, it’s a little bit better of a place than it was before I got here. I don’t want people muttering under their breath at my funeral, “Don’t let the door hit you in the back!” …
“This is of a different category than we've had. This is not simply the number of lies; it's the velocity of the lies, it's the character of the lies.” Peter Wehner “No man in the whole world can change the truth. One can only look for the truth, find it, and serve it.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer …
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God doesn’t merely recruit silver-tongued orators or skilled apologists for his quest for friends. Silver and skill sometimes actually inhibit the Spirit’s efforts to find his way into a person’s consciousness. They can detract from the actual good news itself. Don Everts writes, “If they have just a thimbleful of curiosity, we could actually douse …
