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I can let stuff go, because it’s not all about me. Simply reminding myself to refuse to take offense is a big part of the battle.
“When I pray, I talk to God, but when I read the Bible, God is talking to me; and it is really more important that God should speak to me than that I should speak to Him.”
― How to Study the Bible
― How to Study the Bible
“Research in marriage and family therapy suggests that approximately 80 percent of the emotional conflict between couples is rooted in events that predate the couple knowing each other. That’s why one of the questions I commonly ask in marriage counseling is how much of each spouse’s reaction to the other is his or her “80 percent.” In other words, how much of the conflict is not so much a direct outgrowth of a current event as something that flows from parts of their minds that are remembering?”
― Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships
― Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships
“I don’t understand it,” he said. “We would welcome them if they came. And they must know we are here. You can’t miss the big white columns out front.” “Perhaps,” I said with trepidation, “your church might go into the community instead of expecting them to come to you.” “Nah,” he said with a hint of indignation. “They’re not interested in us. If this church dies, it will be because of the community.”
― Anatomy of a Revived Church: Seven Findings of How Congregations Avoided Death
― Anatomy of a Revived Church: Seven Findings of How Congregations Avoided Death
“A man stood up in one of our meetings and said he hoped to get enough out of the series of meetings to last him all his life. I told him he might as well try to eat enough breakfast at one time to last him his lifetime. That is a mistake that people are making; they are running to religious meetings and thinking the meetings are going to do the work. But if these don’t bring you into closer contact with the Word of God, the whole impression will be gone in three months. The more you love the Scriptures, the stronger your faith will be. There is little backsliding when people love the Scriptures.”
― How to Study the Bible
― How to Study the Bible
“Rodney Stark confirms the point, saying, For far too long, historians have accepted the claim that the conversion of the Emperor Constantine (ca. 285–337) caused the triumph of Christianity. To the contrary, he destroyed its most attractive and dynamic aspects, turning a high-intensity, grassroots movement into an arrogant institution controlled by an elite who often managed to be both brutal and lax.… Constantine’s “favor” was his decision to divert to the Christians the massive state funding on which the pagan temples had always depended. Overnight, Christianity became “the most-favoured recipient of the near limitless resources of imperial favors.” A faith that had been meeting in humble structures was suddenly housed in magnificent public buildings—the new church of Saint Peter in Rome was modeled on the basilican form used for imperial throne halls.”
― Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity
― Reimagining Church: Pursuing the Dream of Organic Christianity
Timothy E. Hartman’s 2024 Year in Books
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