For Kurt and me, our source of healing was the incredibly happy life we built for ourselves and our family.
“Treating souls for whom Christ died as numbers or projects or resources seemed to me something like a sin against the Holy Spirit.”
― The Pastor: A Memoir
― The Pastor: A Memoir
“Only where graves are is there resurrection.”
― The Pastor: A Memoir
― The Pastor: A Memoir
“In salvation God makes himself personally present to us; in prayer we respond by making ourselves personally present to God.”
― The Pastor: A Memoir
― The Pastor: A Memoir
“You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. How else could you produce that particular Patronus? Prongs rode again last night.”
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
― Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“What is the most important thing you do in preparing to preach each Sunday?” I think we were all surprised by the answer, at least I was. His answer: “For two hours every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, I walk through the neighborhood and make home visits. There is no way that I can preach the gospel to these people if I don’t know how they are living, what they are thinking and talking about. Preaching is proclamation, God’s word revealed in Jesus, but only when it gets embedded in conversation, in a listening ear and responding tongue, does it become gospel.”
― The Pastor: A Memoir
― The Pastor: A Memoir
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