Asking you to tolerate whatever I do or say because you say you love me is a fundamental misunderstanding of what love is and what love does. Much of what we think love is simply isn’t love after all. -Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies If You Love Me, You Would… Have you ever said…
It’s a strange feeling when you pay for something that’s already yours. Like an old barn cat. But this redeeming reminds me of something Tim Keller said, “We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it—the fact that he knows me. J.I. Packer, Knowing God Gevalia Gold Coast coffee, dark-chocolate covered almonds, and Downton Abbey CDs. Two friends recently gifted me with these. Then came the rush. Do…
My last post was about a decisive question that can help us say no without guilt. That question was, “Who are you willing to disappoint?” I ended the post with a look at Mary and Martha through that clarifying lens and quoted Jon Bloom. Bloom drove the point home with this statement, Mary was more willing to disappoint Martha…