For in destroying the world something fundamental is saved from the flames: namely, our desire for the perfect world.
“God permits what he hates in order to accomplish what he loves.” Heaven”
― Why, O God?: Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
― Why, O God?: Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
“We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend. C. S. Lewis wrote, “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.” We can’t rise strong when we’re on the run.”
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
― Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution.
“A Christianity that is walled off from the culture around it is a Christianity that dies. The”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“You know how people say nothing can prepare you for children? Well, nothing can prepare you for your first experience changing a bedbound 300-lb patient who cannot move, and is covered in feces and urine in a small, non-ventilated nursing home room. Nothing.”
― Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for Your Patients and Yourself
― Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for Your Patients and Yourself
“The closeness of American culture with the church caused many sectors of the American church to read the Bible as though the Bible were pointing us to America itself. That’s why endless recitations of 2 Chronicles 7:14 focused on revival in the nation as a means to national blessing, without ever seeming to ask who the “my people” of this text actually are, and what it means, in light of the gospel, to be “blessed.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
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