Good words from Graham Nicholson at the Hawthorn Presbyterian Church blog on the danger of reducing response to rules. An excerpt: When the heart is focused on keeping rules as rules and not as a response to God or his grace, it is necessarily focused on one’s self and is blinded to true holiness. Jesus …
David Burke suggests two questions that Christians could include in their everyday conversations with each other: 1. What part of Scripture did you read today? 2. How was your prayer life today? Read some more of his thoughts about it at his blog. One thing struck me in Psalm 121 is that God is with …
William Taylor, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate speaks about the singular necessity of sitting at Jesus’ feet in discipleship and ministry. Those who preach and those who hear must share the conviction that we must sit at Jesus’ feet and be fed.
David Brooks of the The New York Times, quoted by Martin Downes: People don’t change because they decide to be better. If that happened, then New Year’s Resolutions would work. People decide to change because they elevate their loves. And as St. Augustine said, “You become what you love.” But if you can’t talk about …
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