Preaching is rescue work. It arrives on the human scene with splints and bandages to save, heal, and restore the world to all that was lost when the gates of Eden clanged shut.
04210 – Preaching is Rescue Work
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03856 – Habits of Genies
Those who wish for a scene to continue without change are certain to be complicit in smothering it to death. Genies are not it the habit of returning to life in a bottle. from Smash!
03385 – Advent & Biblical Womanhood
Advent is a good time to remember that “biblical womanhood” must include the scene in Luke 1 when two pregnant women celebrate their new motherhood by passionately discussing the overthrow of every earthly empire. “He has brought down the mighty from their...
02655 – Get Lost in a Good Book!
I find that one really sees more of the country with a book than without: for you are always forced to look up every now and then and the scene into which you have blundered without knowing it comes upon you like something in a dream. from All My Road Before Me
01852 – Your Frame of Vision
There is a beautiful complexity of growth within the human soul. In order to glimpse this, it is helpful to visualize the mind as a tower of windows. Sadly, many people remain trapped at the one window, looking out every day at the same scene in the same way. Real...
01577 – A Strange Scene
It is as strange a scene as there is in the Gospels... It was Jesus of Nazareth all right, the man they'd tramped many a dusty mile with, whose mother and brothers they knew, the one they'd seen as hungry, tired, footsore as the rest of them. But it was also the...