May 2013
10 posts
3 tags
anabiels:
but the part of Star Trek where everyone in the theater went, ”Mickey?!” at the same time
This is exactly what happened between my friend and I when we saw Star Trek today. I’m so proud of Mickey for making it into an awesome movie. Even if only for five minutes.
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
“I know it sounds awful, but I felt confused. Because for some reason their...”
– Does My Head Look Big in This?, Randa Abdel-Fattah
3 tags
4 tags
“Do you want a house for your soul? Do you ask, ‘what is the...”
– Spurgeon, on 1 John 4:13 ‘We live in Him’
On Worldviews
A book I’m reading on literature included an essay on worldviews in literature. One section struck me, and I’ve been meaning to share it, so here it is:
The succession of human ideologies that marks human history is, indeed, a succession of humanly devised worldviews. These ways of looking at existence - the varying assumptions about the nature of reality, the basis of morality, what...
4 tags
“You’ll have time to read after college.”
– Annie Dillard I’m secretly afraid that this isn’t the case - thanks Annie Dillard.
5 tags
17 Pinterest Fails →
Pinterest
1 tag
Today I found out Lindt balls come in all sorts of flavours beyond the usuals you pick up. All sorts. Like orange. Cookies and cream. Caramel. Irish cream. This is a nice discovery (even if it is excessively trivial).
April 2013
11 posts
“There is wisdom and illumination but not salvation in a sonnet.”
– Chad Walsh
1 tag
3 tags
I could probably dance to this song for a long...
2 tags
“My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody...”
– 1 John 2:1-6
This passage is so cool: it asks so much, but give so much as well. Because if you focussed on the end, well, it’s crazy. We must live as Jesus did? That’s an enormous ask, beyond our capabilities as fallen humans. We will mess up. But that’s why the start is so...
3 tags
“Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”
– Colossians 4:2
6 tags
“Utile et dolci.”
– Horace, as quoted in ‘The Christian Imagination’
3 tags
3 tags
3 tags
“Behold, how independent of outward circumstances the Holy Ghost can make the...”
– C. H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening.
5 tags
The Foolishness of God, Luci Shaw
Perform impossibilities or perish. Thrust out now the unseasonable ripe figs among your leaves. Expect the mountain to be moved. Hate parents, friends, and all materiality. Love every enemy. Forgive more times than seventy- seven. Camel-like, squeeze by into the kingdom through the needle’s eye. All fear quell. Hack off your hand, or else, unbloodied, go to hell.
Thus the divine unreason....
March 2013
21 posts
4 tags
“She thought Him one who kept so good a table that all she needed would only be a...”
– C. H. Spurgeon, on Matthew 15:27
5 tags
“Literature, then, serves to deepen and to extend human greatness through the...”
– Roland M. Frye, Perspectives on Man: Literature and the Christian Tradition. I am finding so many kindred spirits in Leland Ryken’s The Christian Imagination!
6 tags
“Reading and writing literature depend on a respect for the ability of the...”
– Leland Ryken, ‘Thinking Christianly About Literature’
1 tag
Physics Lecturer: I will teach you almost no physics.
Me: Awesome! I can take that completely out of context and make UOW teaching staff look ridiculous.
7 tags
“What might not the best of us do if it were not for the checks which the Lord...”
– Spurgeon on Psalm 19:13 - “keep your servant back from willful sins.”
Spurgeon cut to the heart the evening I read this. How often do I accept with my heart and mind that without Christ I am in dire straits because my sin of rebellion against God runs so, so deep. Yet at the same time,...
2 tags
“When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the...”
– Proverbs 14:32
4 tags
“This text really has to be God-breathed. What other nation is willing to record...”
– Ray Galea in God is Enough reflecting on Psalm 78:30-33. Though I feel like this applies to the entire Old Testament. Aside: Psalm 78 is fantastic, go and read it! Pass the baton!
3 tags
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only...”
– C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
4 tags
‘Love Love Love’ so completely sums up Pip and Estella for the majority of Great Expectations that I almost feel like it must have been inspired by the book.
3 tags
“To me remains nor place, nor time:
My country is in every clime;
I can be calm...”
– Verse accompanying Spurgeon’s reflection for March 16th. ‘Lord, I would not be a citizen where Jesus was an alien … I am a stranger with You. You are my fellow-sufferer and fellow-pilgrim. Oh, what joy to wander in such blessed society!’
3 tags
3 tags
“And this is love: that You still love me, in spite of me.”
– The Autumn Film
3 tags
1 tag
Within 24 hours, I heard a sermon, read a Psalm with an accompanying book chapter, and read 2 reflections by Spurgeon, that all dealt with the same theme.
And it’s pretty well tied to what I’ve been dwelling on for about 6 months. So, God is awesome like that, helping me out :D
1 tag
“‘Nothing escapes you does it?’
‘Let it escape. I only concern myself with...”
– Brisinger, Christopher Paolini.
This little quote is so cool: it epitomises the strange duality of meaning possible with language. It shows how you can read that phrase in two different ways, and have them be exactly opposite in meaning. So awesome, and so mind bending.
4 tags
“In all other beings we see lack, in Him there is all perfection. The best even...”
– C. H. Spurgeon.
My copy of this text says ‘light with darkness.’ I’m quite sure that was a typo …
4 tags
3 tags
3 tags
“Yet David does not use original sin to justify his behaviour or absolve himself...”
– Ray Galea, ‘God is Enough.’ (See Psalm 51)
2 tags
Our Messy Individualism →
An excellent, thoughtful, compassionate and insightful article on the adoption etc of children by homosexual couples.
Jesus doesn’t want us to be more moral. Well, actually, he does, but moral behaviour is only the outworking of a deeper change brought about by the Spirit as he applies the gospel of Jesus to our hearts. So Jesus doesn’t want usonly to be more moral—he wants to effect a change...
3 tags
“Words cannot set forth the preciousness of the Lord Jesus to His people, nor...”
– C. H. Spurgeon
February 2013
31 posts
Everyone should keep a journal, just for the very singular experience of being rebuked by your past self. No matter how often it happens, it still feels very odd.
Reading past journals is always an extremely challenging, humbling and encouraging business. Weird.
2 tags
“Listen boy
It’s not automatically a certain guarantee
To insure yourself...”
– ‘Tell Her About it’, Billy Joel I was just listening to this song, heard this line, and suddenly found that my one piece of relationship advice (‘Communication is the Key’) has been validated by the man Billy Joel himself. Winning.
2 tags
“God be in my head and in my understanding, God be in my eyes and in my looking,...”
3 tags
Conceited Coxcomb
Why don’t we still use this insult?
Probably because it’s just far too awesome for modern society.
4 tags
“Think of the effort it takes for you to know one single person well. Now...”
– Reflections on Psalm 139, stretching the mind thinking about God’s all knowing presence and infinitude, in Ray Galea’s ‘God is Enough’
2 tags
Person: What do you study?
Me: Physics
Person: Oh, like, sport?
Me: ..... like, science.
4 tags
“…with a grin which agitated his countenance from one auricular organ to...”
– Favourite phrase of the day, courtesy of Dickens, ‘The Pickwick Papers’
3 tags
