“Hire Introverts” – Is This Why Paul Chose Timothy?
The newest issue of The Atlantic Monthly (July-Aug 2012) has an excerpt from a new book by Susan Caine called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking). Here’s what she says:
“‘Hire good people and leave them alone.’
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John Piper on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
John Piper (who is not a Pentecostal but a Reformed Noncessationist) says…
“Now the positive thing I want to say about the moderate Pentecostal teaching (represented by the Bennets, i.e., Dennis & Rita) is that it is Continue reading “John Piper on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit”
The Emotional Jesus: His Ups & Downs
(From The Presence & The Power by Gerald Hawthorne, Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1991)
“The Gospels … stress the fact that Jesus was indeed a human being simply by recording that he, too, experienced those things – little and big – that go into making up human existence, such as paying taxes, heartily eating and drinking, climbing into fishing boats, and so on (see Matt. 17:24-26; 11:19; 9:1). They note that he was hungry, thirsty, and weary (Matt. 21:18; Luke 4:2; John 4:6-8), in fact, so weary that he was able to fall sound asleep in the cramped quarters of a small boat in a storm (Mark 4:38). They describe the full range of human emotions that Jesus felt – love, joy, grief, compassion, anger, gratitude, wonder, and desire (see Mark 10:21; John 11:5; Luke 10:21; John 11:33-36; Matt. 20:34; Mark 1:41; 3:5; 8:6; Luke 7:9; 22:15).
What “Following Jesus” Is … and Is Not. – Eugene Peterson
“I like the prayer of Thomas – ‘my Lord and my God.’ …This prayer keeps us ready for surprises; it keeps us alert to Jesus who rules our lives as Lord and commands our worship as God. Following Jesus is not a skill we acquire so that we can be useful to the Kingdom and it’s not a privilege that we’re let into so that the Kingdom can be useful to us. It’s obedience – ‘my Lord’ – and it’s worship – ‘my God.’
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