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Steven Wales
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How to Make A's: My Journey From Flunky to College Professor and What I Learned Along the Way
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Apex Alliances: Building Strong Brand-Agency Collaborations
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Interesting overview of the American prison system, with particular attention to Texas prisons, specifically the farming prisons in the bottomland between the Trinity River and the Brazos. In other words, while the book is national in scope, it spend
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RICHARD FEYNMAN AND ERNIE WALES: A BOOK REVIEW FOR FRIENDS & FAMILY. No one in literature was ever more like my father than Richard Feynman, the Curious Character. There is Atticus Finch, a worthy southern gentleman who covers up his expert marksmansh ...more |
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| One day I remember wondering whether the Axis Powers cooperated the way the Allies did. Would the Nazis and the Japanese help each other, like codefendants in a lawsuit: the enemy of my enemy is my friend? Not twenty-four hours later I ran across an ...more | |
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| If you've ever wanted to educate yourself about all things reality television, read CUE THE SUN. I think I was suffering a bit of laziness and found it perhaps a shade too academic for my taste. On the other hand, that complaint seems hollow consider ...more | |
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| Surprisingly difficult. The broad strokes are clear enough. But between the archaic language and the complexity that rhythm and rhyme forces on a text, there are too many mysteries. It bothers me to know I am missing things. I need to read this again ...more | |
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This is a story about STORY. No other theme appears as often or as powerfully as that of words and stories and their power. Even the title reinforces the theme. "Stories are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off sickness and death." A person ...more |
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A CAUTIONARY TALE OF THE QUESTING YOUNG MAN: Krakauer Addresses a Type. I never wanted to read this book. Avoided it and the movie for decades. What a horrible premise. I did not want to waste one minute reading about a kid who wandered into the wilde ...more |
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“This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.”
― The Old Man and the Sea
― The Old Man and the Sea
“Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjacks' wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices. Grace is represented as the Church's inexhaustible treasury, from which she showers blessings with generous hands, without asking questions or fixing limits. Grace without price; grace without cost! The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. Since the cost was infinite, the possibilities of using and spending it are infinite. What would grace be if it were not cheap?...
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.”
― The Cost of Discipleship
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Costly grace is the treasure hidden in the field; for the sake of it a man will go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to stumble; it is the call of Jesus Christ at which the disciple leaves his nets and follows him.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ. It is costly because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it gives a man the only true life. It is costly because it condemns sin, and grace because it justifies the sinner. Above all, it is costly because it cost God the life of his Son: "ye were bought at a price," and what has cost God much cannot be cheap for us. Above all, it is grace because God did not reckon his Son too dear a price to pay for our life, but delivered him up for us. Costly grace is the Incarnation of God.”
― The Cost of Discipleship
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Hey! You are "currently reading" a lot of books! I just got on here after a year of being somewhere else. Here=goodreads somewhere else=wherever Well good to know you read a lot I guess! See ya!-Twila
Yeah, some of them I may have finished, but I have not been keeping up with Goodreads.