But I know this:
my father's suffering made a profound impact on my life. It was through my father's death that I was brought to Christ. I am not saying that the ultimate reason my father was called to suffer and die was so that I could
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“And then on top of all of that, we are also entrusted with making new people, more immortals. We are bringing them into existence through biological conception, but the project hardly ends there. All day long, we are in varying degrees helping to form the kind of person who is aiming for everlasting glory or everlasting disgust.”
― No Mere Mortals: Marriage for People Who Will Live Forever
― No Mere Mortals: Marriage for People Who Will Live Forever
“love God and do as you please.”
― Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey
― Jesus and the Gospels: An Introduction and Survey
“When the great Scottish Reformer John Knox prayed, he did not ask for enough Scots to enable him to get together a Bible study. He prayed for Scotland—and the Lord granted his request. Jesus said we were to disciple the nations, teaching them . . . (Matthew 28:16-20).”
― Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education
― Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning: An Approach to Distinctively Christian Education
“As Chesterton points out somewhere, sexual license is the first and most obvious bribe to be offered to a slave. For many in our era, that was the bribe that ushered them into their bondage to the state.”
― Mere Christendom
― Mere Christendom
“To get my hands up. To grope for the pillars. To saddle up the mustang and hang on tight. To live for this woman who is giving her life for me, for these little humans who are our love made flesh. Ride the roaring wave of providence with eager expectation. To search for the stories all around me. To see Christ in every pair of eyes. To write a past I won’t regret. To reach the dregs of the life I’ve been given and then to lick the bottom of my mug. To live hard and die grateful. And to enjoy it.”
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
― Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent
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