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“I don’t want to come here anymore.” Mom turned to me as I was sending them to the security check. She kept crying. Her eyes were red from daily washing with tears. I never thought I would face a choice between my parents and myself. One was the source of unconditional love for the last twenty-nine years; the other was the true self that I had just accepted after twenty-nine years of hiding and struggling.”
― Two Dads and Three Girls: Searching for Sexual Identity, Falling in Love, and Building a Family through Surrogacy
― Two Dads and Three Girls: Searching for Sexual Identity, Falling in Love, and Building a Family through Surrogacy
“Or have we ourselves become so caught up in the spirit of this age that we are content to be rich in information and impoverished in wisdom and godliness?”
― For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God's Word
― For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God's Word
“we will see profound spiritual renovation if by God’s grace we make it our commitment not to put anyone down—except on our prayer list.”
― A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
― A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
“Have you ever seen workers build a brick building? They don’t just stack the bricks on top of each other. They need some sort of glue to hold all those bricks together. The glue for bricks is called mortar. In the same way, your body is made up of 37.2 trillion little bricks called cells. And like a building, those cells need some sort of glue to hold them all together. The glue for cells is called laminin. Laminin holds your body together. The thing that’s even more amazing about laminin is what it looks like. When you take a peek at laminin (and you’ll need an electron microscope to see it), it looks like . . . a cross.”
― Indescribable: 100 Devotions About God and Science
― Indescribable: 100 Devotions About God and Science
“However hard some things are to understand, it is never helpful to start picking and choosing biblical truths we find congenial, as if the Bible is an open-shelved supermarket where we are at perfect liberty to choose only the chocolate bars. For the Christian, it is God's Word, and it is not negotiable. What answers we find may not be exhaustive, but they give us the God who is there, and who gives us some measure of comfort and assurance. The alternative is a god we manufacture, and who provides no comfort at all. Whatever comfort we feel is self-delusion, and it will be stripped away at the end when we give an account to the God who has spoken to us, not only in Scripture, but supremely in his Son Jesus Christ.”
― How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil
― How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil
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