Category: Asides

Auto­mat­i­cal­ly pulled from Glen’s ever-grow­ing list of ser­mon­ic mulch (with which he may or may not agree):

“The rev­e­la­tion was one thing, the rep­e­ti­tion quite anoth­er.”

some NPR host tags: For­give­ness Hon­esty

Auto­mat­i­cal­ly pulled from Glen’s ever-grow­ing list of ser­mon­ic mulch (with which he may or may not agree):

Gen­e­sis 30.18: Leah inter­prets the birth of Issachar as God reward­ing her for giv­ing her ser­vant to be Jacob’s wife. This is a great exam­ple of bas­ing the­ol­o­gy on poor­ly-under­stood expe­ri­ence.

Glen, Devo­tion­al 9/6/2000 tags: Bible The­ol­o­gy

Over Spring Break in March of 2006, 30 Chi Alpha stu­dents from Boze­man, MT trav­eled three days by bus to New Orleans to help peo­ple recov­er in the after­math of Hur­ri­can Kat­ri­na: “the most poignant moment came when a stu­dent, who is a rel­a­tive­ly new Chris­t­ian, walked into a ruined home and found a Bible still open on the kitchen table — where it has sat adhered by the orig­i­nal (and now dis­si­pat­ed) flood waters for months. ‘The Bible was opened to Psalm 90 where it says you are my dwelling place for­ev­er,’ Lant recalls. ‘That moment real­ly changed his life as he came to grips with the fact that earth was just a tem­po­rary res­i­dence … he now views things from a more spir­i­tu­al per­spec­tive, what’s most last­ing in his life and how tem­po­ral mate­ri­al­ism is.’ ”

AG News #1246: April 19, 2006

It is eas­i­er to sup­press the first desire than to sat­is­fy all that fol­low it.

Ben­jamin Franklin