Sunday Leftovers (9/6/09)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a 19th century poet whose works not only were influential in her day, but still continue to be widely read today.  She grew up with 10 siblings and had an apparently happy relationship with her father.  Yet that relationship soured when she defied a life-long admonition from her father that she […]

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Today’s Quote – Unity (Tozer)

A. W. Tozer: Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?  They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.  So one hundred worshipers met together, each […]

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Do you remember what you read?

A couple days ago, someone asked me (having walked into my office and seen my desk with several small piles of books), “do you remember everything you read?” “No.  I know of people who do, but I don’t.” So you might ask the question, “then why read, if you don’t remember everything?” Well, there are […]

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The Fight

On June 28, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield fought a rematch of a previous boxing match.  Holyfield had won the first battle, but some questioned whether he could withstand the powerful punches of Tyson again.  It wasn’t the punches of Tyson that floored Holyfield, but the biting of Tyson that shocked the world.  Tyson bit […]

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90 Minutes in Heaven

I have not read Don Piper’s book, 90 Minutes in Heaven.  Nor, at least at this point, do I plan to do so. As I select books to read, I consider several criteria: is it written by an author that I know, trust, and enjoy? is it about a topic that is either theologically or […]

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Sunday Leftovers, 8/30/09

The easiest thing to do when seeing immaturity and weakness and failure in ourselves or in other people is to quit. The hardest thing to do when seeing immaturity and weakness and failure in ourselves or in other people is to continue with Christ. The hardest part about ministry is not the what or the […]

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