“It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King’s words are often employed when there is talk of Christ’s Church and its lack of cultural diversity in worship. It is said as a matter of fact and there is […]
“Never think that you need to protect God. Because anytime you think you need to protect God, you can be sure that you are worshipping an idol.” ~ Stanley Hauerwas Afraid. It is the best way to describe my feelings about the conversations that are taking place, the declarations being made on social media, at […]
“… there is plenty of Christianity that cannot solve our problem either– little, petty, hide-bound Christianity, an escape from life, utterly irrelevant to the vast issues that confront mankind.” ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick, A Great Time to be Alive: Sermons on Christianity in Wartime, 1944 Fosdick writes these words in his first sermon in this collection of […]
“As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it and it is gone and its place knows it no more. But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him and his righteousness to children’s […]
“Watson was one of the most concise, racy, illustrative and suggestive of those eminent divines who made the Puritan age the Augustan period of evangelical literature. There is a happy union of sound doctrine, heart- searching experience and practical wisdom throughout all his works… His writings are his best memorial; perhaps he needed no other, […]