This life therefore,
is not righteousness but growth in righteousness,
not health but healing,
not being but becoming,
not rest but exercise.
We are not yet what we shall be but we are growing toward it,
the process is not yet finished but it is going on,
this is not the end but it is the road.
All does yet gleam in glory [...]
Mark Evans tells a story about Alicia Montemayor from Laredo, Texas. At age 74 she had to quit her job to take care of her husband. With time on her hands she started painting “to amuse myself” she said, and at 82 she was still “amusing herself” and had become a very successful artist. To [...]
A young man lived on a farm with his family whose land was loaded with grass burrs. They lived next to a man that had a large farm that was beautifully kept up and did not have any grass burrs. As a result the young man was envious of his neighbors farm. One day the [...]
Supporting evil, failure, and wrong. The elite blueprint for utopia.
Krister Stendahl tells how he came to love the Bible by first loving Jesus, rather than the other way around, and that Jesus first became his friend, then his savior. As a boy growing up in the Church of Sweden he would steal away to church — in his family it was thought Pharisaic to [...]
Gabriel Schoenfeld - 3.16.2007 - 2:57PM
Was Valerie Plame under oath today when she testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and declared that she played no role in sending her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, on a fact-finding trip to Niger? “I did not recommend him. I did not suggest him. There was no [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Former Vice President Al Gore refused to take a “Personal Energy Ethics Pledge” today to consume no more energy than the average American household. The pledge was presented to Gore by Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, during today’s global warming hearing.
Senator Inhofe showed Gore [...]
Senator John McCain met a question, while sitting with reporters on his bus as it rumbled through Iowa today, that he couldn’t – or perhaps wouldn’t – answer.
Did he support the distribution of taxpayer-subsidized condoms in Africa to fight the transmission of H.I.V.?
What followed was a long series of awkward pauses, glances up to the [...]
What is effective in reaching people with the gospel in one age and culture may not fit the next one. The gospel does not change but society does. To try to reach the people in our country today by the methods that were (somewhat) effective in my youth is foolish. Rather than decrying change, we [...]
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