How to Be Holy
Monday, July 13, 2009
A ways back, a cousin of mine asked me some really good questions about "how to be holy." I wrote a really long answer. Turns out, J.I. Packer (who apparently is not welcome in the Canadian Anglican Church any longer) had a much better, more concise answer:
(from Of First Importance)“The holiest Christians are not those most concerned about holiness as such, but whose minds and hearts and goals and purposes and love and hope are most fully focused on our Lord Jesus Christ.”
- J.I. Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2005), 134.
United Breaks Guitars
The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
– Henry J. Tillman
If you haven't seen this, it's quite entertaining:
Top 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Coffee
You're a strange person if you don't like coffee.For me, saying "I like coffee" is like saying Romeo liked Juliet. It borders on obsession. In high school, I'd occasionally help Ryan Bobbin deliver newspapers at 3 A.M., and we'd dream out loud about what the perfect coffee shop would be like (well, this side of heaven, anyway).
So - until that day comes when Christ returns and redeems all of creation (and Folger's is finally relegated to the abyss) - here are 10 Tips and Tricks for Better Coffee.
Think of it as an aspect of the "now-and-not-yet" of eschatology. :)
Labels: Fun Stuff
Heaven
Monday, July 6, 2009
Heaven is the place that we are just "passing through" from this earth to the new earth. (Doug Wilson)
- John Piper via Twitter
Note that he doesn't say, "heaven is the place you go when you die." Our hope is not for a disembodied, undefined and purposeless eternity in the clouds. Our hope is in the very-concrete complete redemption of all of creation.
- John Piper via Twitter
Note that he doesn't say, "heaven is the place you go when you die." Our hope is not for a disembodied, undefined and purposeless eternity in the clouds. Our hope is in the very-concrete complete redemption of all of creation.
Labels: Quotes, resurrection
