January 2010
9 posts
1/24/2010 3:29pm
I have suddenly a great sense of anticipation. I think very, very soon in some way or other we are going to see the glory of the Lord in the land of the living. You heard it here first. :)
“A Christian publisher once told me, ‘You shouldn’t always write...”
– from Set-Apart Feminity by Leslie Ludy, Ch. 8: Sacred Claim
Mark Driscoll tells of 'hell' in Haiti →
Horror. There are no words for this kind of thing.
“Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in...”
– Exodus 4:10-12
Heart of God Ministries →
I found this today, and something about it is poking me right in the tender, growing, wide-eyed part of my soul. It sounds so right, and so exciting, and so scary. It is making me think and pray.
What really spoke to me was the lifetime-commitment aspect of it. There is such an emphasis on short-term missions these days—people biffing off to far corners of the globe to do their good deed...
“Taken in the right spirit these very things will give us patient endurance; this...”
– Elisabeth Elliot, Passion and Purity, Ch. 17
“Waiting. It means:
Steadfastness, that is holding on;
Patience, that is...”
– S. D. Gordon, excerpted in Passion and Purity by Elisabeth Elliot
I love how wherever we have lived in Colorado, we have never been beyond the distant, lonely call of the train whistles.
January 1, 2010
There is something about the date that looks so clean and pure and hard. Like a crystal pillar catching the light.