By the time most of our children reach junior high school, their natural curiosity has been neutralized by an insidious set of unwritten assumptions: Assumption 1: Questions can be embarrassing. It’s embarrassing to admit you don’t know something. What is important is never to reveal your ignorance. Don’t admit you don’t know something because others…
Schaeffer on Truth and Love
The observable practice of truth and the observable practice of love go hand in hand with the proclamation of the good news of Jesus Christ. – … Francis A. Schaeffer (1912-1984), The Mark of the Christian, Inter-Varsity Press, 1976, p. 23
Safe from Love
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all…
Rick Warren on Twitter
Some recent Rick Warren “Tweets” @ www.twitter.com/rickwarren To impact a moment,tweet.To impact a wk,preach a sermon; Impact a yr, write a book; To impact a generation,mentor a leader. It takes NO leadership skills to teach a leadership seminar! Leadership isnt being “on TOP” but serving others. See Mk 10:42-44 Eternity is a long time to…
Marine Corps Leadership Traits
Marine Corps Leadership Traits The 14 leadership traits are qualities of thought and action which, if demonstrated in daily activities, help Marines earn the respect, confidence, and loyal cooperation of other Marines. It is extremely important that you understand the meaning of each leadership trait and how to develop it, so you know what goals…
Time and Eternity!
If, indeed, we all have a kind of appetite for eternity, we have allowed ourselves to be caught up in a society that frustrates our longing at every turn. Half our inventions are advertised to save time—the washing machine, the fast car, the jet flight–but for what? Never were people more harried by time: by…
Scribes vs. Prophets
Hearts that are “fit to break” with love for the Godhead are those who have been in the Presence and have looked with opened eye upon the majesty of Deity. Men of the breaking hearts had a quality about them not known to or understood by common men. They habitually spoke with spiritual authority. They…
Thanksgiving Proclamation
“It is the duty of nations, as well as of men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God. To confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon. And to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures–and proven…
That Calvary Be Worthwhile
Lord, where can we go but to Thee? We have no one in heaven beside Thee, and no one on earth with your grand ability to touch our spirits, lift our mood, bless our kids, stick us back together again when we fall apart or saw a torn relationship into place. We come to ask…
Scripture as a Starting Point
Our starting point is Scripture, which we accept as God’s unique and trustworthy revelation. Yet, in seeking with loyalty to conserve this truth from God, we attribute no infallibility to our own evangelical traditions. We desire, rather, to re-examine them radically — that is to say, with a thoroughness which digs down even to their roots. If…
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