“Daddy if we want to sleep in our room or sleep under the tent on the train table – that is our choice.” – IDiddy
Quotes
The kingdom of God looks like Jesus
We have forgotten, if ever we were taught, the simple principle that the kingdom of God looks like Jesus and that our sole task as kingdom people is to mimic the love he revealed on Calvary.
– Greg Boyd
The Myth of a Christian Nation
The heart of Christianity
“The heart of Christianity is letting yourself be loved.” – Brennan Manning
The beauty of the cross
The ancient Greek philosophers, and later the early church fathers, spoke of three prime virtues: truth, goodness, and beauty…
Early Christian theologians located the source of these prime virtues as proceeding from God himself—truth, goodness, and beauty are virtues because God is true, good, and beautiful. Thus this trinity of virtues becomes a guide to Christian living as we seek to believe what is true, be what is good, and behold what is beautiful…
But it is this third virtue, the virtue of beauty, that has been most marginalized in the way we understand and evaluate Christianity. As a result, Christianity has suffered a loss of beauty—a loss that needs to be recovered. With an emphasis on truth, we have tried to make Christianity persuasive (as we should). But we also need a corresponding emphasis on beauty to make Christianity attractive…
That the Roman cross, an instrument of physical torture and psychological terror, could ever become an object of beauty representing faith, hope, and love is an amazing miracle of transformation. Every cross adorning a church is in itself a sermon—a sermon proclaiming that if Christ can transform the Roman instrument of execution into a thing of beauty, there is hope that in Christ all things can be made beautiful! This is precisely the claim that the Christian faith makes concerning what Jesus accomplished in his death—and it is an astounding claim!
– Brian Zahnd
Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity
Quote of the Day – Steve Jobs
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.
Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
– Steve Jobs
2005 Stanford Commencement Speech
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HT Mark Ramsey
Best. Quote. Of. The. Day.
As told to myself and our social media manager by a college student:
“I post photos to Instagram. It’s an app the young people use.”
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