I pray that along with you, Kathaleena. I am glad our son made it home safely.
It is such a busy time and people may lose patience or take risks. Then there are all the holiday parties and impaired folks. I am thankful less illegal drugs are available these days!
World’s book of the year sounds fascinating and I’m not a particular fan of Tim Keller (though we prayed with a close member of his congregation the night before he died. Such an off life of connections I seem to have!)
For these reasons, WORLD selected Tim Keller on the Christian Life as its 2025 Book of the Year.
The subtitle of the book is The Transforming Power of the Gospel, and throughout its chapters Smethurst outlines Keller’s thinking on how salvation and gospel preaching should change us. In a phone interview, Smethurst said writing two of the chapters in particular brought home in fresh ways some themes in Keller’s thought: Chapter 3 (“Three Ways to Live”) and Chapter 4 (“Friends on Purpose”).
The “Three Ways to Live” chapter notes that everyone will take one of two paths—following God or rejecting Him. But there are actually two ways to reject Him: outright rebellion or religious hypocrisy. “In other words,” Smethurst writes, “you can avoid God through immorality, but you can also avoid God through performative morality”—and some people on the wide path to destruction may look externally like they’re on the narrow path to salvation. Preaching on the Sermon on the Mount and the Prodigal Son, Keller noted the counterintuitive similarities of the libertine and the legalist and how obedience is important as a response—but never a means—to God’s love.
We have been up in the 60s today. Sunny skies, no wind, and a sweet feel of false spring. Stores must be happy with this perfect weather for getting shoppers out of their homes and away from online shopping.
A beautiful tradition in Atlanta, choral music from the Historically Black Universities. Morehouse men and Spellman ladies. This is so well done. Always a favorite for Art, he has seen it in person
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Good Monday morning. I pray we all have a good week and safe travels for all who must do that.
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I pray that along with you, Kathaleena. I am glad our son made it home safely.
It is such a busy time and people may lose patience or take risks. Then there are all the holiday parties and impaired folks. I am thankful less illegal drugs are available these days!
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Morning. Windy and warm! Be blessed y’all…🎄🎄🎄
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World’s book of the year sounds fascinating and I’m not a particular fan of Tim Keller (though we prayed with a close member of his congregation the night before he died. Such an off life of connections I seem to have!)
For these reasons, WORLD selected Tim Keller on the Christian Life as its 2025 Book of the Year.
The subtitle of the book is The Transforming Power of the Gospel, and throughout its chapters Smethurst outlines Keller’s thinking on how salvation and gospel preaching should change us. In a phone interview, Smethurst said writing two of the chapters in particular brought home in fresh ways some themes in Keller’s thought: Chapter 3 (“Three Ways to Live”) and Chapter 4 (“Friends on Purpose”).
The “Three Ways to Live” chapter notes that everyone will take one of two paths—following God or rejecting Him. But there are actually two ways to reject Him: outright rebellion or religious hypocrisy. “In other words,” Smethurst writes, “you can avoid God through immorality, but you can also avoid God through performative morality”—and some people on the wide path to destruction may look externally like they’re on the narrow path to salvation. Preaching on the Sermon on the Mount and the Prodigal Son, Keller noted the counterintuitive similarities of the libertine and the legalist and how obedience is important as a response—but never a means—to God’s love.
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We have been up in the 60s today. Sunny skies, no wind, and a sweet feel of false spring. Stores must be happy with this perfect weather for getting shoppers out of their homes and away from online shopping.
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A beautiful tradition in Atlanta, choral music from the Historically Black Universities. Morehouse men and Spellman ladies. This is so well done. Always a favorite for Art, he has seen it in person
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