December 2010
16 posts
“sipping your tea even if the cup is empty is the regency-era equivalent of...”
Christmas is all about inconvenience. The manger: dirty. The baby: newborn and surrounded by barn animals. Mary: tired from travel, now exhausted from childbirth. Yet she still has to wrap the baby herself because there’s no one to help. Well…okay except Joseph: probably freaking out on the side. Or perhaps an errant and stubborn sheep got in the way between him and Mary right when she was giving...
“I wasn’t God’s first choice for what I’ve done for China…I don’t know who it...”
“Living, He loved me
Dying, He saved me
Buried, He carried my sins far away...”
– John Wilbur Chapman
“Rejoice not over me, O my enemy; when I fall, I shall rise; when I sit in...”
– Micah 7:8-9
“Celebrating Advent means being able to wait. Waiting is the art that our...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, writing from prison in Nazi Germany
For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, according to his pleasure and will. Ephesians 1:4-5 In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who...
My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather... →
This is our collective fear projection: that we will be consumed. Zombies are like the Internet and the media and every conversation we don’t want to have. All of it comes at us endlessly (and thoughtlessly), and — if we surrender — we will be overtaken and absorbed. Yet this war is manageable, if not necessarily winnable. As long we keep deleting whatever’s directly in front of us, we...
“Whatever weakens your reason, whatever impairs the tenderness of your...”
– Susanna Wesley to her son, John Wesley, in response to his request for a list of sins he should avoid
