How do you think spiritual growth happens? What books have most helped you grow spiritually Mike says we can choose to run to Christ or run away from Christ. Think about the last week. did you run to Christ, or away from Christ? Or both? In the last mo…

To beat a particularly colorful horse that I’ve been obsessing about lately, it’s the Keswick. Tsk-tsk. Don’t get me started. That stuff’ll drive you batty everytime. We can thank Moody for bringing it here and well, the capitalistic American Evangelicalism for perpetuating it. It stinks.

IF, do you have a couple good books I could read to find out about fundamentalists? I keep getting piecemeal information from my current group, and I want to know in full.

You can drop the list at the usual place. Wait for the dog to bark whilst the rooster points the way. Over and out! (Mission Impossible soundtrack… now.)

“Make his mind flit to and fro between an expression like ‘the body of Christ’ and the actual faces in the next pew. It matters very little, of course, what kind of people that next pew really contains. You may know one of them to be a great warrior on the Enemy’s side. No matter. Your patient, thanks to Our Father Below, is a fool. Provided that any of those neighbors sing out of tune, or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous….Keep everything hazy in his mind now, and you will have all eternity wherein to amuse yourself by producing in him the peculiar kind of clarity which Hell affords.”

It strikes me though that Rosen, because she is female, has a more highly developed aesthetic sense than C. S. Lewis, with all her colors and smells.