January 24, 2012
Quote of the Day
“Pornography is a universal temptation precisely because it does exactly what the satanic powers wish to do. It lashes out at the Trinitarian nature of reality, a loving communion of persons, replacing it with a masturbatory Unitarianism.”
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January 13, 2012
January 10, 2012
Quote of the Day
“He decided he wanted to meet Stott, and a friend helped connect them. Simon called the theologian and offered to take him out for dinner. He said Stott told him he didn’t go out much anymore and instead invited the musician to his flat for tea and biscuits.
“‘I’d say we spent two or three hours there,’ Simon recalled. ‘I talked about everything that was on my mind about things that seemed illogical, and he talked about why he had come to his conclusions.’
“Simon was very impressed by Stott. ‘I liked him immensely,’ he told me. ‘I left there feeling that I had a greater understanding of where belief comes from when it doesn’t have an agenda.’
“‘It didn’t change my way of thinking,’ he added, ‘but what I liked about it was that we were able to talk and have a dialogue.’”
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January 5, 2012
January 4, 2012
Moms (and Dads) Your Kids are Not an Inconvenience
“I am SO thankful that God does not see me, His child, as an inconvenience. Instead, while I was still a sinner He sent His Son, Jesus, to die for me (Romans 5:8). When I have come to Him in need, I have never felt Him roll His eyes at me or turn away because I called at an inconvenient time. He delights in my need of Him, and He encourages me to come to Him … with anything and at ANY time. He does not demand that I wait until morning, or that I grow up first, or that I get a grip. He offers Himself, and delights as we come to Him. What an amazing Heavenly Father we have who has given us the example of how to love, nurture and give, even when it is difficult. My prayer is that my little girl will always know and feel that her parents prayed for her and find her valuable — even when she is 3 years old.”
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December 23, 2011
Quote of the Day
“Today, polls show Americans are much more inclined to put up a Christmas tree and decorations or go to a party than to attend religious services, even though they tend to see Christmas as a religious holiday.
“Perhaps it’s a bit puritanical to insist that believers dump their cherished family traditions to march off to church on Christmas morning. But it’s also self-defeating to complain about keeping Christmas holy when churches close on Dec. 25.
When he preached at Christmas, Saint Augustine acknowledged the associations between the still-dominant pagan rites and Christianity’s Feast of the Nativity. But the bishop of Hippo said that such associations should spur the faithful to deeper observance, not to downplaying the holiday altogether or tailoring it to the prevailing culture: ‘So, brothers and sisters, let us keep this day as a festival—not, like the unbelievers, because of the sun up there in the sky, but because of the One who made that sun.’”
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