He that can say, “This kingdom is mine,” makes a royal claim. He that can say, “This mountain of silver is mine,” makes a wealthy claim. But he that can say to the Lord, “You are my God,” has said more than all monarchs and millionaires can speak. (Spurgeon)
Psalm 31:14:
I say, “You are my God.”
this will help you understand the world.
A king’s wrath is a messenger of death,
and a wise man will appease it. In the light of a king’s face there is life,
and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.
(Prov. 16:14–15)
“What fallen people, who endure suffering, sin, and sorrow, disease, decay, and death, need far more than rest and restoration is resurrection, which makes them immune to all the effects of fallenness.” Ben Witherington
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?"
That’s nice
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.
https://eko.substack.com/p/override?r=1rxmzl&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
"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
https://larrysanger.org/2025/02/how-a-skeptical-philosopher-becomes-a-christian/
"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."
"If God were not willing to forgive sin heaven would be empty."
