Barnabas Piper
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This probably deserves 4 1/2 stars because it is exceptional. Sometimes King’s books are too dark and weird for me, but this one was pure imagination in the spirit of classic fairytales. He definitely includes some of his patented imaginative villain ...more | |
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“I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.1”
― Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith
― Help My Unbelief: Why Doubt Is Not the Enemy of Faith
“They want the PK to dress like a grandparent and behave like Jesus. But they also seem to wait for the time when the pastor’s daughter makes out and the son drinks beer.”
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
“some people assume all is well, that the PK has it all together. They’re usually wrong; remember, PKs are as human as everyone else.”
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
― The Pastor's Kid: Finding Your Own Faith and Identity
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lament challenges the church to acknowledge real suffering and plead with God for his intervention. The”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“Shalom, therefore, does not eschew or diminish the role of the other or the reality of a suffering world. Instead, it embraces the suffering other as an instrumental aspect of well-being. Shalom requires lament.”
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
― Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times
“It is a wonderful thing to be born on this side of the cross, knowing the full-orbed gospel. It is an even better thing to be sealed and empowered by the Spirit of God at Jesus’s behest. The coming of the Spirit was a crazy dream for Moses; it was a distant hope for Ezekiel; but it is true for you.”
― Superheroes Can’t Save You: Epic Examples of Historic Heresies
― Superheroes Can’t Save You: Epic Examples of Historic Heresies