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Archive for August, 2008

Here is a weekly quote from the great pastor and theologian Sinclair Ferguson:
The evangelical orientation is inward and subjective.  We are far better at looking inward than we are at looking outward. We need to expend our energies admiring, exploring, expositing and extolling Jesus Christ.
Doesn’t this quote have much to say to us.  I think [...]

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Dust to Glory

My father is a race car driver.  He loves cars, and especially loves racing them.  He has raced bikes, go-carts, R/C cars, quarter-scale, late models, stocks, modifieds, sprints, migets and soap box.  If it has wheels and can be run, he will race it.  Growing up he invited me into this world.  I grew up [...]

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Here is the recount of the martyrdom of the church father Polycarp as told in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs:
Hearing his captors had arrived one evening, Polycarp left his bed to welcome them, ordered a meal prepared for them, and then asked for an hour alone to pray. The soldiers were so impressed by Polycarp’s advanced [...]

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