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God is personal but never private. — Jim Wallis (God’s Politics) Who are you intimidated by?  Be honest.  Who has the power to give you that queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach?  It could be adults or adolescents, girls or guys, heroes or the homeless, movie stars or strangers.  Everyone is intimidated by [...]

To make a man happy as a lark, might be to do him grievous wrong: to make a man wake, rise, look up, turn, is worth the life and death of the Son of the Eternal. — George MacDonald (Unspoken Sermons) Everyone knows the type of person I am about to describe.  Let’s call him [...]

“And now,” said Aslan presently, “to business.  I feel I am going to roar.  You had better put your fingers in your ears. And they did.  And Aslan stood up and when he opened his mouth to roar his face became so terrible that they did not dare to look at it. And they saw [...]

Spiritual realities require risky language unless you think they can be reduced to little formulas and formulations. — Brian D. McLaren (A New Kind of Christian) God is far too great for our language to describe. Ezekiel tried and look at the result: An approaching thunderstorm from the north Continual lightning strikes coming from a [...]

The psychologist generally regards it as a sure sign that a man is beginning to give up a passion when he wishes to treat the object of it objectively. —Soren Kierkegaard (Concluding Unscientific Postscript) I was reading philosophy in the bathtub a couple nights ago (tubs are a wonderful place to think) when I came [...]

Most of us own more bibles than we read.  Sitting at my desk at church, I can count 19 copies lined up in a row above my monitor.  As strange as it may sound, I still find it hard to justify purchasing yet another edition (even with the allure of flashier side bars and even [...]