Sunday February 9, 2020 — Meeting Jesus: His Life — Toward the Anxious

Reflection:

You can’t waste time and you can’t save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.
~ James Gleick

“The world clamors, “Do more! Be all that you can be!” But our Father whispers, “Be still and know that I am God.”
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When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver’s watch, that “wonderful kind of engine … a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal,” they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, “he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life.” To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We’re all Gulliver’s now … Or are we Yahoos?
~ James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.
~ Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life

Sunday February 2, 2020 — Meeting Jesus: His Life — Toward the Troubled

Reflection:

Oh Satan you’re a wily one.
~ Craig Ferguson

A gulf has opened up in our culture between the visibility of evil and the intellectual resources available for coping with it… The repertoire of evil has never been richer.  Yet never have our responses been so weak. We have no language for connecting our inner lives with the horrors that pass before our eyes in the outer world…

What does it mean to say that the inventor of the concentration camp, or of the Gulag, was subject to a “disorder?”  What does it mean to call these monsters mentally disordered, and to engage in scholastic debate over whether their brand of madness vitiates their responsibility?  Why can we no longer call them evil?
~ Andrew Delbanco, The Death of Satan

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We cannot afford to trivialize evil. It hunts the vulnerable. It wants to rise within us. In this psalm David is not afraid of evil even though evil is real. He is not afraid because the LORD is with him. This assumes that David is following his Shepherd, not fighting him nor trying to deceive him. Safety in the presence of evil comes from following the Shepherd, not from dabbling in duplicity.
~ Pastor Mark J. Pearson