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‘Thimbles and thunderstorms!’ cried Trumpkin in a rage. ‘Is that how you speak to the King? Send me, Sire, I’ll go.’
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Would you bring me something from the fridge?
Great (offensively) prophetic rock song by the then version of the Newsboys about sleepy, comfortable, Christian unfaithfulness. Its old, but still carries the message well. I listened to it several times while driving through the night recently, great fire starter … Continue reading
Posted in Fight the Good Fight, Music
Tagged compromise, Music, newsboys, prayer, prophetic, unfaithfulness
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Yikes!
What exactly am I teaching if I let my tiredness, or my busyness, or my stress levels, or whatever, excuse a grumpy attitude at home? Hmm, basically I am broadcasting that I don’t need to obey God when I am … Continue reading
Posted in Fight the Good Fight
Tagged catechism, compromise, excuses, hypocrisy, obedience, rationalisation, sin
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an ogre’s castle
We do not want joy and anger to neutralise each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre’s castle, to be stormed, … Continue reading
Posted in Good Reads, Truth
Tagged g.k. chesterton, life, optimism, pessimism, purpose, Truth
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