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I have recently read the two volume letters and memories of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) published in 1890. Kingsley was an Anglican clergyman who wrote the popular novels Westward Ho, and Water Babies, was an accomplished naturalist, a professor of Modern History at...
THORNS IN THE FLESH
New York Times writer David Brooks, began his book The Road to Character by contrasting résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They are the virtues...
THE VICTORY OF FAITH
Hanging on the wall in my office beside my desk is the shield of arms of my college in the University of Durham: St. John’s College, where I did my post-graduate studies in theology. Below the crest is the motto of the college in Latin: FIDES NOSTRA VICTORIA, Our...
WHO IS GOD?
If I were to ask you to tell me about yourself, what would you say? Where would you begin? Would it be with your origins, your career, where you lived, your family, your interests, your major challenges, crises, your strengths? “Who am I” is a big question. If you ask...
PENTECOSTAL POWER
At his Ascension Jesus promised the disciples that “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). When the day of Pentecost arrived a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire rested on...
THE GOSPEL OF THE ASCENSION
The Ascension: Rembrandt The Ascension of Jesus is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter Sunday (Acts 1:4). Because it is always a Thursday it tends to be overlooked and neglected. Yet the Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of his earthly life. It confirms his...
MEMORIAL DAY – WAR IN THE BIBLE
On Friday, April 9, 2004, the Florida Times-Union ran on its front page an arresting photograph of ten U.S. Marines praying while standing and kneeling around a fallen comrade in Fallujah, Iraq. On Sunday, April 11, the newspaper ran Tony Perry’s commentary on the...
LUNATIC OR LIAR?
Tim Keller Jesus went about doing good, healing people and ministering to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. His good works or miracles were signs of the coming of the kingdom of God in their midst. The religious leaders were threatened by his ministry, by...
THE PROBLEM OF BEING OUT OF THE WILL OF GOD
I have increasingly become aware of how many parents agonize over the problems their children experience. They are called upon, even in old age, when their children are supposed to be responsible adults living on their own, to help them out of problems of their own...
KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING
Stephen Covey will be remembered most as the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People (1989), which sold over 25 million copies. He popularized many quotes which have the power to completely change the direction of one’s life. Some of them are: The key is...
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