He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself. -C.S. Lewis

Please give this a listen. It is needed in today’s climate: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Only two chapters in and can’t stop tearing up seeing my own sentiments (of the idea of place) put into words — the very thing that happens with each Port William book I read. (And I’ve read them all— many of them a few times.)

So in their memories the way went: a passage through the dark, undertaken familiarly by men of their kind in their time. So Marce remembered it to Wheeler, who told it to Andy, who in a world radically changed needed a long time and great care to imagine what he heard, 1/3

Do yourself a favor, and give this a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I died for Beauty - but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth, was lain In an adjoining Room - He questioned softly "Why I failed"? "For Beauty", I replied - "And I - for Truth - Themself are One - We Brethren are", He said - 1/2

It is time for my semi-regular posting of this sermon. I have listened to it twice in the past two days and have benefited greatly both times. Please give it a listen. www.tinysa.com/sermon/10211...

Having, and defending, and celebrating, instead of receiving, submitting to, and praying, the Bible masks an enormous amount of non-reading. -Eugene Peterson-

Man am I grown, a man's work must I do. Follow the deer? follow the Christ, the King, Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King– Else, wherefore born? -Tennyson-

Friends, This is an important listen & it’s only 5 minutes. Please give it a hearing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying; These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but his time. Survey our progress from our birth— We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. 1/2

Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground. -Alexander Pope-

[E]verything, especially everything that looks like wreckage, is material that God is using to make a praising life. -Eugene Peterson-

People hear us pray in worship, they listen to us preach and teach from the Scriptures, they notice when we are listening to them in a conversation, but they can never know if we are attending to God in any of this. 1/3

Sometimes a summer meal is just black-eyed peas and cornbread. And truth be told, there’s not much better.

The Word of God is not simply the content of the Bible, but the voice of God speaking to us in and through it. -Kevin Vanhoozer-

This deserves a wide hearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The sermon is not a product; it is a participation. -Lloyd-Jones-

Worth a hearing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Religious people obey God to get things. Gospel people obey God to get God — to resemble him, to know him, to delight him. We do, out of love. -Tim Keller-

Do yourself a favor and give this a listen — best five minutes of listening you’ll do today: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In matters of God’s grace hyperboles are understatements. -Eugene Peterson-

What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-

I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is — Christ — for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men's faces. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-

He has a sin of mine, he its near brother, Knowing them well I can but see the fall. This fault in one I found, that in another: And so, though each have one while I have all, No better serves me now, save best ; no other, Save Christ: to Christ I look, on Christ I call. -Gerard Manley Hopkins-

This is worth hearing by as many as can hear it: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The very fact that you’re reading this on social media tells me you need to hear this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; 1/

Ordinary time is not what biblical people endure or put up with or hurry through as we wait around for the end time and its rocket lunch into eternity. It is a gift through which we participate in the present and daily work of God… 1/

Scripture is not an inert object to be studied, as if reading the Bible were an "I-It" relation. It is rather a means for encountering the living God, "the primary means by which God presents himself to us.” 1/2

What he was he continued to be; what he was not he took to himself. In the beginning he was, uncaused; for what is the cause of God? But afterward for a cause he was born. 1/