“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.” – Walt Whitman
“Knowing the Bible is one thing. Knowing the author is another.” This simple statement is rich with profound truth. How many people come to learn many truths about the Bible, and never become intimate with its author? Far too many, I fear. We have built an entire “Christian education” system around learning facts and principles …
“Indeed, taking all the evidence together, it is not too much to say that there is no single historic incident better or more variously supported than the Resurrection of Christ. Nothing but the antecedent assumption that it must be false could have suggested the idea of deficiency in the proof of it.” ― Brooke Foss …
Don’t you love a good adventure story? You know, the stories that keep you up reading long after you should be in bed. The stories made into movies that you watch repeatedly because they are that good. Years ago I largely stopped reading fiction adventures. Instead, I have maintained steady diet of true-life adventure stories. …
Continuing with the story of Tobin Sorenson from the previous post. I met Tobin in 1978 when he was at the pinnacle of his climbing career. Several things impressed me immediately. He rarely talked about his climbing unless asked. He had a look in his brilliant blue eyes that spoke of passion, focus, and commitment. …
Tobin Sorenson (June 15, 1955 - October 5, 1980) was an American rock climber famed for bold first ascents on Yosemite big walls, in the Alps, Canadian Rockies, and New Zealand. He is considered by some the best all-around climber of his time. A member of an informal group called the Stonemasters, Sorenson pushed risk …
How difficult would it be to never be loved? Listen to the ache of being unloved in these excerpts from a poem, “I Just Want Someone to Love Me,” by a writer named Samantha. What am I doing wrong I just want someone to be there To tell me that they love me To tell …
Think back: who has been your closest and most enjoyable friend? Close friendships, those that cross over into the realm if intimate friendships, are vital to our well-being. In the first of three blog posts on relating and relationships, I covered the research on why these relationships are vital to us. Having that friend with …
Why would the man do that? Maximillian Kolbe, catholic priest and Polish prisoner at the Auschwitz death camp, is remembered for his voluntary death in the place of a fellow prisoner, a man he did not know. Kolbe had sheltered many from the harsh treatment of the Nazis, and had helped more than 2000 Jews …
Why are most popular stories in books, movies, television and songs focused on relationships? And why do these stories resonate so strongly with us that we spend millions-make that billions- of dollars on pursuing them? Even in stories primarily about events we find ourselves drawn to the interplay between characters small and large. The history …
The universality of the nature of relationships may in fact point to interpersonal relating as a design feature in all of us, and that we were designed to be relational beings. We are designed for relating and interdependence, and are thus equipped for a unique relationship with our God, a relationship that is at once consuming and consummate, and in which we can find our true identity and highest fulfillment.
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