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The anti-God state of mind

January 27th 2010

The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.  – C.S. Lewis

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Your best life…later

July 27th 2009

Something is wrong when our lives make sense to unbelievers.- Francis Chan, Crazy Love.

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Serving Leftovers to a Holy God

July 13th 2009

Our greatest fear as individuals and as a church should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. – Tim Kizziar, as quoted in Crazy Love.

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A poem for the month of May

May 1st 2009

Some primal termite knocked on wood And tasted it, and found it good! And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today. – Ogden Nash

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Mere Christianity

June 30th 2008

I am rereading Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. The book is adapted from a 1943 series of radio lectures broadcast during World War II. Periodically there are references that speak directly to a citizen during wartime. I just read one recently that seems as timely today as it was in 1943. “If God thinks this [...]

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The Life of Pi

September 7th 2007

I recently heard a missionary quote from The Life of Pi by Yann Martel. The book sounded interesting and I hated just stealing the quote and his thoughts without reading it. So, I just finished listening to the book and here it is: The main character, Piscine Patel (aka “Pi”) is a son of a [...]

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