Are you sure about that?

We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.

Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

To kill a mockingbird

It’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Atticus Finch

 

This symbolic quote which lends itself to the title of Harper Lee’s novel is one of many bits of wisdom from this classic American novel.  Another thing Atticus tells his children is to “walk around in someone else’s skin for a while” to understand the way he/she acts or thinks.  Read more about the “skin” of folks at RVA these days here.

Strangers In Kenya

Three dollars of God

I just got an email update from a church planter in San Diego.  He included this great quote from Tozer.

“I’d like to buy three dollars’ worth of God. Please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a rebirth. I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. I’d like to buy about three dollars’ worth of God, please.”

Check out his website and pray for this church.  Highlands CC

Ever heard of syncretism?

Read this hilarious (and sad of course) letter from a woman in Papua New Guinea.  A great reminder that we must understand the worldview of the people to whom we’re telling about Jesus.  They might “believe” in Him but have no idea what that means.

http://strangersinkenya.blogspot.com/

 

If you’ve seen my shoes, you’d understand this quote

Let’s just say I use the “force” when it comes to keeping my shoes in one piece.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together . . .
Carl Zwanzig

From the Message

I read this one today from Ecclesiastes.

“The day of your funeral tells more about you than the day of your birth.”

When you wish upon a star…

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Lift someone up

There is no experience better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

John Andrew Holmer

Making choices

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Henry Kissinger

Martin Luther

“We cannot keep the birds from flying over our heads–but we can prevent them from building their nests in our hair!“

 

This definition of temptation–from Martin Luther–is most memorable to me.