IS THERE ROOM?

DEALING WITH THE WORLD

John Wesley

‎""The early Christians did not say in dismay: 'look what the world has come to,' but in delight, 'look what has come to the world.”

BIGOTRY

"The people who are the most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all."

G. K. Chesterton

OUR WORK

Holy people must stop going into church work as their natural course of action, and take up holy orders in farming, industry, law, education, banking, journalism with the same zeal previously given to evangelism or to pastoral and missionary work. 

-Dallas Willard

THE SHOOTINGS IN SCHOOLS

Your world seems a bit darker this Christmas.  But you were born in the dark, right? You came at night. The shepherds were nightshift workers. The Wise Men followed a star. Your first cries were heard in the shadows. To see your face, Mary and Joseph needed a candle flame. It was dark. Dark with Herod’s jealousy. Dark with Roman oppression. Dark with poverty.  Dark with violence. Herod went on a rampage, killing babies. Joseph took you and your mom into Egypt. You were an immigrant before you were a Nazarene. Oh, Lord Jesus, you entered the dark world of your day. Won’t you enter ours? We are weary of bloodshed. We, like the wise men, are looking for a star. We, like the shepherds, are kneeling at a manger. This Christmas, we ask you, heal us, help us, be born anew in us. - Max Lucado

MAN'S TRUE IMPORTANCE

"Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. It does involve the belief that God loves man and for his sake became man and died." CS Lewis in ~ Miracles

THANKSGIVING

“The foremost quality of a trusting disciple is gratefulness. Gratitude arises from the lived perception, evaluation, and acceptance of all of life as grace—as an undeserved and unearned gift from the Father’s hand. Such recognition is itself the work of grace, and acceptance of the gift is implicitly an acknowledgement of the Giver.” (Brennan Manning in Ruthless Trust)