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Learn from a swan
(I am traveling in the US until mid-February, so my initial posts will be based on books I've read recently.) The Legacy of Sovereign Joy is one of Piper's biographical series, The Swans Are Not Silent. The series title comes from Augustine's successor, Eraclius. Augustine was an excellent teacher, and Eraclius felt small and inadequate as he preached in Augustine's presence. Eraclius remarked, "The cricket chirps, the swan is silent." This book surveys these "famous
Dare we call ourselves postmoderns?
Get this quotation from D. A. Carson: Thoughtful Christians will not want to align entirely with either modernism or postmodernism, of course, but the kindness of God in His “common grace” ensures that there are useful things in both epistemological structures that a Christian may usefully exploit, and things in both structures to confront. This comes out in his discussion on Challenges for 21st-Century Preaching (HT). The question is, if we choose not to "align
The prayer of a seventeen year old Quaker girl
I stumbled across this prayer one morning during my devotional time. It caused me to think about the way I pray. I found myself asking questions like, “Do I see myself as God sees me?”, “Do I appreciate what God has done for me?”, and “Do I want to let God remove these proud tendencies from?” Sadly, I couldn’t answer these questions correctly. This prayer challenged me to think carefully as to how to pray
Lessons from a shopping mall
I remember walking into a shopping mall for the very first time and was overtaken by the size of the mall and the variety of shops that lay before me. I remember feeling very lost and very alone. This feeling was alleviated somewhat when I saw the blessed directory. Like all good directories, this directory helped give me bearings in regards to where I was and showed me exactly where I needed to go. It