Author: Tim
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John Wesley: “…I felt my heart strangely warmed…”
May 24, 1738 In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while the leader was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely…
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Christian Wiman: “‘The task is not to “believe” in a life beyond this one; the task is to perceive it. …”
‘The task is not to “believe” in a life beyond this one; the task is to perceive it. Perception is not projection: We are not meant to project our experience of this life into another, nor are we meant to imag- ine, by means of the details of this life (which is the only…
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The Second Moment of the Artist
Have you noticed it is exciting to start a painting, but you lose interest in the middle? I argue that we never lose interest in a sound composition, whether we are the artist or just the spectator. It is the geometric arrangement of lights and darks and lines of motion that capture our eye…
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Tim’s Adaptation of Clarke’s Third Law
Clarke’s Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” My adaptation: Any sufficiently traced causation is indistinguishable from special creation.
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Bruce Charlton: “…continuous revelation…to sustain scripture, reason, tradition…”
[I’ve stolen the entire post.] “This assertion is based on my experience, as well as my understanding of history. In my brief time as a Christian I have tried – at times – to give my allegiance to a bottom line – whether scripture, reason, tradition etc – and found it almost immediately impossible. It…
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Jesus
You are the missing person in my life. Even the days when I am ashamed of my forgetfulness You are the ghost in my memory. I feel a hole shaped like You but I can’t be sure if I made it or if You made me this way. My life’s yearning is to hear…
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Faith: Hold the ground you have won.
I can’t endorse Mormonism, but this is good stuff, from a talk given by Elder Jeffrey R Holland at the LDS Conference in April 2013:http://www.lds.org/general-conference/print/2013/04/lord-i-believe?lang=eng In moments of fear or doubt or troubling times, hold the ground you have already won, even if that ground is limited… When those moments come and issues surface, the…
