It’s a mild day. Those are the only kinds of May days that I enjoy. Otherwise, May just reminds me that the humidity and hornets of summer are almost here. There’s a good bit of breeze out there. Storms are on the way. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May” and all that. […]
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I recently was re-reading excerpts from the best book on preaching. In it, Keller quotes the philosopher Charles Taylor, in A Secular Age, in which he says that “no one has a right to interfere with me for my own good, but only to prevent harm to others.” Taylor was summarizing what might be called […]
Prayer is difficult for me. The church fathers knew this. When you read the words of the desert monks (and we all probably should), they talk about their distracting thoughts and sleepy eyes, their lustful desires- all the things that especially ramp up when they knelt down to pray. They understood those distractions as enemy […]
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