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October 15, 2015 - December 16, 2016
The gospel does not much linger over eternal Life, which will take care of itself.
The wisdom teacher, however, imagines that such a diet bespeaks busyness and overextendedness, drivenness, restlessness, and anxiety.
Call it health food, but don’t romanticize. Call it poor people’s food. A dinner of herbs—greens—is a virtue once, but every night makes it seem like an unending lent.
contentment gained not by consuming but by communion.
Spinach breeds love no more than beef yields hate.
Soulless food causes loss of soul.
dementors
how we eat is how we live.
I may be exhausted, but I cannot walk away from it.
It is not a banquet for the rich and extravagant, but for all—healed, valued, at peace, no drivenness, no disruptive phone calls. Everyone is there, and all there are important.
God is the map whereby we locate the setting of our life.
It is a rule of thumb in the Bible, that the more desperate and more yearning, and more needful, and more hopeful people are, the more their poetry and theology will present God in dangerous ways.
the Bible has to use a host of images, because no single one is adequate,
The news is that newness is not just an act of your willpower, but is an act God takes for us.
Sometimes the church needs to speak of grace utterly free without qualifying footnote.
the term shepherd is political in the Bible. It means king, sovereign, lord, authority, the one who directs, to whom I am answerable, whom I trust and serve.
It is a mark of discernment and maturity to strip life down to one compelling loyalty, to be freed of all the others that turn out to be idolatrous.
