The Real Thing
“When you find the real thing, you walk away from everything else.” – Aaron Sorkin
Audience of One
“Today is the greatest day I’ve ever known. Can’t live for tomorrow; tomorrow’s much too long. I’ll burn my eyes out… before I get out.” – Billy Corgan
Billions of Details and the Infinite God
“The years teach much the days never know.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus and Ted Williams
“For my money, Ted Williams is the greatest hitter of all-time…” – Bob Costas
The Thrice Omni God
“Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me…”
– St. Patrick
Christ the Christian vs. Christ the Lord
“To continue to eye God primarily in terms of laws, obligations, and civil ordinances represents a retreat to a pre-Christian level of thought and rejection of Jesus Christ and the total sufficiency of his redeeming work.” – Brennan Manning. One of the things today facing us in the body of Christ is the public view […]
He is worthy
“There is no substance under the things with which you are clothed. You are hollow and your structure of pleasure and ambitions has no foundation. You are objectified in them. But they are all destined, by their very contingency, to be destroyed. And when they are gone there will be nothing left of you but […]
Lunatic Justice
“The absolutely unpardonable thing was not (Jesus’) concern for the sick, the cripples, the lepers, the possessed… not even for his partisanship for the poor, humble people. The real trouble was that He got involved with real moral failures, with obviously irreligious and immoral people: people morally and politically suspect, so many dubious, obscure, abandoned, […]
Some days are better than others…
“The early American Indians had a specific last rite of passage before a boy would become a man. On the night of his 13th birthday, after his testing though trials of hunting, fishing and scouting; he would be placed in the center of dense forest to spend the entire night alone. In the woods, thick […]
The Joys of True Liberty
“The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty and precisely the same difference prevails […]