“For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life—namely myself. However much I might dislike my… Read more »
Smallman On Discipleship
Every member of the church ought to think this way about what it means to be a Christian…
Leithart On Knowing Jesus
“The genius of evangelicalism is the question, ‘Do you know Jesus?’ Not, ‘Are you a church member?’ or, ‘Can you recite the Creed?’ but, ‘Do you know Jesus?’ The question is a protest against any form of nominal, complacent Christianity… I want to leave you with these evangelical questions: Do you know Jesus? Is the Jesus… Read more »
Lewis On Becoming A True Person
“True personality lies ahead—how far ahead, for most of us, I dare not say. And the key to it does not lie in ourselves. It will not be attained by development from within outwards. It will come to us when we occupy those places in the structure of the eternal cosmos for which we were… Read more »
Psalm 133
Luther On The Kingdom
“The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of… Read more »