Last Sunday I mentioned a panel from a Calvin and Hobbes comic strip which had to do with New Year Resolutions. Here’s the strip in question. The panel is the second one on the middle line, but it’s all gold. The easiest resolutions to make are those where we stay the same and everyone else …
I love the juxtapositions my rss reader tosses up. First, from Trevin Wax: Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a mile post on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me. – …
Tim Keller takes a fair bit of John Newton, adds something of his own, and comes up with a list to assist with self-evaluation of one’s own character. If you’re into new-year oriented self-reflection this would be helpful in framing some resolutions. And don’t spend time applying these to someone else. That’s too easy. This …
Because as we age our perception of time passing speeds up, and because pastoral ministry is one of the ‘unfinishable’ vocations, each December brings for me a sense of ‘What. Already?’ mixed with ‘Oh, there was so much more to be done…’ that makes the weeks between the end of November and Christmas quite a …
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