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Sep 23, 2017
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This is an honest look at not only the dignity in us, but also the depravity. In a poetic way, Hong invites us to journey down with her so that we might rise. This would be a great companion to your Lenten season.
Hong's writing prompted this reflection from me...
Pastors are paradoxes.
In the exercise of pastoral duties on Sundays at services, worship leaders and preachers muster up what sometimes passes as appropriate passion and verbiage in order to get a passing grade from parishioners. In th ...more
Hong's writing prompted this reflection from me...
Pastors are paradoxes.
In the exercise of pastoral duties on Sundays at services, worship leaders and preachers muster up what sometimes passes as appropriate passion and verbiage in order to get a passing grade from parishioners. In th ...more
This little book is among the best Lenten reading that I have found. Edna Hong wrote this in response to overhearing a clergyman's opinion that the season of Lent is far too long for modern times. Whether you are tempted to agree or not, this book will put things in a perspective which is the crucial importance of our awareness of both our fallen human nature and our divine nature of bearing God's image. There is a tendency in Christian circles to emphasize one to the near exclusion of the other
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“...a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in a serious predicament. Likewise an age with a Christianity so eager to forgive that it denies the need for forgiveness. For such an age, therefore, Lent can scarcely be too long!”
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