'Yo my man! What's the word?' 'I can't call it.'

"I believe, help my unbelief!" - Mark 9:24

"Although logos is common to all, most people live
as if they had a wisdom of their own."
1. p.77. Fr.2, cited in T. S. Elliot's Four Quartets

"For in the final analysis, our most basic link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." – Robert F. Kennedy

“He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the LORD require of you
but to do justice, and to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?”
— Micah 6:8

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Christ calls us to take risks for kingdom purposes. Almost every message of American consumerism says the opposite: Maximize comfort and security - now, not in heaven. Christ does not join that chorus. To every timid saint, wavering on the edge of some dangerous gospel venture, he says, “Fear not, you can only be killed.

John Piper

(thanks Sara/Arthur!)

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