This is a response by John Piper to a Muslim document calling for unity among Christians and Muslims. Very kind hearted but faithful to the truth.
Quotes from Martin Luther King
In no particular order….
A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.
A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.
Some Wisdom From Monticello
Thomas Jefferson was certainly an interesting and influential man. I take exception with a great many things he said, but also enjoy other. Here are a few peckings.
Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
One man with courage is a majority.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.
I cannot live without books.
I’m a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
Never spend your money before you have earned it.
The Hard Road
I get prayer emails from Johnny Farese. He is a quadriplegic who serves the Lord from his bed. you should visit his site, farese.com to hear the whole story.
You can listen to some of his story below:
He sent this quote the other day:
“In the world ye shall have tribulation.”
— John 16:33
“There are some among us teaching there will be no tribulation, that the Christians will be able to escape all this. These are the false teachers that Jesus was warning us to expect in the latter days. Most of them have little knowledge of what is already going on across the world. I have been in countries where the saints are already suffering terrible persecution. In China, the Christians were told, “Don’t worry, before the tribulation comes you will be translated – raptured.” Then came a terrible persecution. Millions of Christians were tortured to death. Later I heard a Bishop from China say, sadly, “We have failed. We should have made the people strong for persecution rather than telling them Jesus would come first. Tell the people how to be strong in times of persecution, how to stand when the tribulation comes – to stand and not faint.”
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom was a dutch christian who was sent to a concentration camp in WWII for helping Jews to hide. Her sister and father died while imprisoned. She knows something of what it means to suffer for her faith in Jesus.
Teddy Roosevelt Lays it Down
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes up short again and again; who knows the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
In my life I have too often sat in the peanut gallery, slinging criticisms at others from my position of idleness. I am ashamed of that, and don’t ever want to be that way again!
Dave Barry on the Traffic Problem
Dave Barry is a riot. I think he is the funniest man in America. This article is penetrating analysis of the nation’s traffic problems
The Little Stuff: The Important Stuff
“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.”
-Helen Keller
Mark Twain Strikes again
“If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
Mark Twain
Expelled: Go See The Movie
I spent $40 to take my family to see the movie “Expelled.” I am glad I did. My 9 year old fell asleep ( no big surprise) but the rest of us enjoyed it. The movie is a refreshing view of the current culture war between those who have the reigns of power and those who believe. The movie is about academic freedom, and how Darwinists oppose it. It is also about the intellectual dishonesty, logical fallacies (in their own words, as they were interviewed), and hatred expressed by those in the scientific establishment. We had a great time, and engaging discussion as a family. This movie is not going to save the world. In my opinion ID (Intelligent Design) is too weak and generic to be of lasting spiritual benefit. However, it acknowledges what scripture teaches, that the created order reveals the wisdom and power of God. This movie blindsides the opposition and may leave an open door for Christians to speak the truth.
My wife would like to say: GO SEE IT!!!!
Sharing the Good News: Can You Talk to People?
This is a video clip from a sermon john piper preached on evangelism. He gives 10 recommendations on sharing the gospel. You can get it at Desiring God
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