ARTS AND CULTURE (33)
  1. A good place to start is to work hard at loving those no one else seems to love. I can’t think of a more Christ-like action.
  2. Dual narratives are unfolding in our lives at every moment. There’s the story we’re writing, and the one penned by the Spirit.
  3. The empty space in our hearts that we try to fill with stuff is filled only by the Maker of all things. An iPhone won’t fill that gap. Only a crucified and resurrected God fits in there.
  4. Whether we realize it or not, all these online, self-editing actions are nothing more than our admission that we believe that we are so deeply flawed that no one will love us just as we are.
  5. This book tells of my long and brutal journey. From married to divorced. From a seminary professor and pastor to a disgraced, bitter truck driver in the oil fields of Texas. From a man at war with God to a child redeemed by grace.
  6. They stood on their feet, the Father's host, Alive in the Son and Holy Ghost.
  7. The table is full-laden; feast ye all sumptuously. The calf is fatted; let no one go hungry away.
  8. I love books. I love authors. I love the way putting words down on paper incarnates ideas that might otherwise remain ghosts of the mind, flitting here and there in our gray matter.
  9. Warning, Remember, O man, that thou art dust… And lust, he mocks in mute self-condemnation.
  10. In nature one with God, The Son partakes in love, Of human flesh that we, Partake of God above.
  11. As it turned out, the novels in which I had sought escape, became part of the means whereby the Lord rescued me from my own death.
  12. With but a donkey's jawbone He whacked a thousand men And iced yet even more
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