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Finding an explanation or a quick solution for grief, while an admirable goal, can circumvent the opportunity afforded in lament—to give a person permission to wrestle with sorrow instead of rushing to end it. Walking through sorrow without
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“But still, this great awakening, this surpassing concern, was never excited by any harangues of terror, but always appeared most remarkable when I insisted upon the compassions of a dying Saviour, the plentiful provisions of the gospel, and the free offers of divine grace to needy distressed sinners.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“Oh, how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men’s power and goodness when, if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“My soul is disconsolate when God is withdrawn.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“This day, I saw clearly that I should never be happy, yea, that God Himself could not make me happy, unless I could be in a capacity to 'please and glorify Him forever.' Take away this and admit me into all the fine heavens that can be conceived of by men or angels, and I should still be miserable forever.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
“[I pray] that we might not outlive our usefulness.”
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
― The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Reading the Church Fathers
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There is an immense library of Christian philosophy, theology, history, apologetics, biblical commentary, and devotion written in the first seven cent ...more
Joshua’s 2025 Year in Books
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