another good one from Doug: "Experienced pastors have sometimes had to deal with a parishioner who is caught in some sin, and that person was caught dead to rights. But in the cosmic scheme of things, that particular sin, if it were the only thing, could be dealt with in a straightforward manner, and life could return to normal. But somehow the individual resists simple repentance at every turn. Lame excuses, redefinition, flat refusals, all of that. Why the stiff resistance for something so comparatively trivial, and yet so obviously necessary?"

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The very last thing God made. . . Was a woman. Eve was the capstone. She was the crown. How tragic, the current view of women.

Rivendell Bikes are awesome

i enjoyed reading this quite a bit. nerds with laptops exposing darkness. God is not mocked.

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"The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love." Henry Scougal

sourdough for Wednesday church.

"When I really sought to understand it, I found the Bible far more interesting and—to my shock and consternation—coherent than I was expecting. I looked up answers to all my critical questions, thinking that perhaps others had not thought of issues I saw. I was wrong. Not only had they thought of all the issues, and more that I had not thought of, they had well-worked-out positions about them. I did not believe their answers, which sometimes struck me as contrived or unlikely. But often, they were shockingly plausible. The Bible could sustain interrogation; who knew? It slowly dawned on me that I was acquainting myself with the two-thousand-year-old tradition of theology. I found myself positively ashamed to realize that, despite having a Ph.D. in philosophy, I had never really understood what theology even is." Larry Sanger

How a Skeptical Philosopher Becomes a Christian – LarrySanger.org

"Elon had hired some talented young men, gave each of them a couple of flashlights, the four-battery kind, and told them to go down in the basement to shine the light on every cockroach they could find. This they have been doing with the exuberance of youth. And they have done much more than find a few cockroaches. They have found cockroach cities. And the cockroach bureaucrats and thought leaders are trying to get through this apocalypse by putting on a “who, me?” expression."

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"If God were not willing to forgive sin heaven would be empty."

"Anyone who thinks he can live the Christian life himself is just proclaiming that he is not a Christian." D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One of Jonathan Edwards resolutions, written in 1722, when he was just 19 years old: “I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.”

Acts 13:16–23: Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen. 17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it. 18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness. 19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance. 20 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet. 21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years. 22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’ 23 Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.

“According to the vision of the founders of Harvard College, ‘Everyone shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know God in Jesus Christ.’’—Iain Murray