Dave Hornor

“Intro What the problem is; our contemporary cultural context: Here’s what we face. Early points What the Bible says; the original readers’ cultural context: Here’s what we must do. Middle points What prevents us; current listeners’ inward heart context: Why we can’t do it. Late points How Jesus fulfills the biblical theme and solves the heart issue: How Jesus did it. Application How through faith in Jesus you should live now.”
― Timothy Keller, Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism

“To have any kind of livable society some choices have to be restricted, some authorities have to be respected, and some individual responsibility has to be assumed.”
― Timothy J. Keller, Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism

“highly effective people invest little energy on their existing problem situations. Instead, they focus attention and energy on their desired outcomes or on what they want instead of these problems . . . A key to high performance across all these research contexts has been the ability to develop, articulate and stay focused on a compelling outcome. To note the difference between problems and possibilities, Penna and Phillips invite the following exercise. Think of a moderately serious problem at work or in your home. Pose and answer these questions: Why do you have this problem? What caused it? Who is to blame for it? What obstacles are there to solving it? Now take the same situation and answer these questions: What do you want instead of the problem? (Be sure to go beyond merely eliminating the problem.) What would it be like if the problem were solved? What would you see, hear and feel? Imagine the problem is solved. What has been gained?”
― Gil Rendle, Doing the Math of Mission: Fruits, Faithfulness, and Metrics

“They named supernatural culprits, and traced their actions to enmities in heaven. Artemis was hostile to Pan, Earth to Apollo, virgin Athena to loving Aphrodite.... Because the gods were `present' and manifest, it was necessary to ask them about [things] which might concern them. Otherwise, they might be `unpropitious'.... The old compound of awe and intimacy was still alive. (Pagans and Christians, Penguin, 1988, pp. 236-37)”
― N.T. Wright, Following Jesus