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A Big To-do Over Everything!
Muddy water is like a muddled mind. Stillness
allows the sediment to settle. Quietude before God will produce clear thinking. Clear
thinking will lead to self-control.
A Prayer begins . . .
Our Father in heaven, you are the light of the world. Help us seek your
presence in our lives. For we know that as we do, you will draw closer to us. Teach us to think clearly so we may wisely
exercise self-control.
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Two selected book quotations begin . . .
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Pain As Pleasure
Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0060652969
Keywords: fire, comforts,
destroy, pain-fibers, evil, pain, intensity, hot, trust, feeling, aching, pleasurable,
Broadman & Holdman Publishers, Lewis, C. S. Lewis
"If fire comforts that body at a certain distance, it will destroy it when the distance
is reduced. Hence, even in a perfect world, the necessity for those danger signals which
the pain-fibers in our nerves are apparently designed to transmit. Does this mean an
inevitable element of evil (in the form of pain) in any possible world? I think not:
for while it may be true that the least sin is an incalculable evil, the evil of pain
depends on degree, and pains below a certain intensity are not feared or resented at
all. No one minds the process 'warm--beautifully hot--too hot--it stings' which warns
him to withdraw his hand from exposure to the fire: and, if I may trust my own feeling,
a slight aching in the legs as we climb into bed after a good day's walking is,
in fact, pleasurable."
SoAmazing Review: C. S. Lewis'
The Problem of Pain is among his best known works. He puts pain into
its place in the bigger perspective.
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"Please God"-- Petition or Declaration?
Category: Christian Living
Keywords: culture,
self-fulfillment, self-sacrifice, church, Cross-free, Cross-friendly, God, world,
religion, Burger King, Big Mac, way, truth, life, Postmodern Reformation, obedience,
ministry, Zondervan Publishing House, Sweet, Leonard Sweet
"A godlet culture prizes self-fulfillment over self-sacrifice. Instead of choosing a
church on the Cross-free basis of "does this church meet my needs?" or "What's in this
church for me?" we must train ourselves to ask the Cross-friendly question "What's in
this church for God?" or "Does this church meet God's purposes for this world?"
Religion is not a matter of Burger King or Big Mac, red wine or white, flavored coffee or
straight up. Religion is a matter of the way, the truth, and the
life.
Religion is not some personal opinion or special preference. Religion is a penalty
("woe is me"). Religion is a purpose ("the way of the Cross").
'Please God.' Hear that phrase a new way, not as a petition but as a declaration. The
Postmodern Reformation church goes beyond "gift-based" ministry to obedience ministry."
SoAmazing Review: In SoulTsunami,
Leonard Sweet identifies the nature, notions, and needs for nurture of the Postmodern
church. Church as usual won't cut it with Postmoderns.
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