“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.” WorldNeedsChildrenLittlesDoeHelpingActionBrotherSpeechRefuseGoodsConsumerismGod's LoveOverconsumption Author:John the Apostle
“Becca Gardner is wonderful as the good-hearted little Griff who refuses to be daunted by all the heart-ache and resentment on dad's ranch and this young actress proves there's another young child actress in Hollywood besides Dakota Fanning.” HeartChildrenLittlesYoungWonderfulDadProveHollywoodRefuseActressesResentmentAcheHeartedYoung ChildrenDakotaHeart AcheGood Hearted Author:Richard Roeper
“A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, when dropsy develops, he leaves his concubine, and he believes in God.” MenBelieveChildrenFallSinLibertyDoubtIllRefuseBelieve In GodMistressIntercourseDiscarded Author:Jean de la Bruyere