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The Last Place on Earth…
If you’ve been married for any length of time you’ve had at least one of those fights. You know, the kind that lasts about 5-7 hours, at some point in the argument words stop and the silent treatment you used in grade school all the sudden becomes amazingly mature again and the poor cat getting in your way all the sudden becomes the most annoying thing on the face of the earth. Now, thankfully, these arguments are not the …
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C.S. Lewis on Community
He works on us in all sorts of ways. But above all, he works on us through each other. Men are mirrors, or “carriers” of Christ to other men. Ususally it is those who know Him that bring Him to others. That is why the church, the whole body of Christians showing Him to one another, is so important. It is so easy to think that the church has a lot of different objects - education, …
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In the Image of God…
Some great thoughts from Stanley Grenz and John Franke on the relationship between being the image bearers of God and the church community.
“In short, the entire Biblical panorama may be read as presenting the purpose of God as that of bringing into being a people who reflect the divine character and thus are the imago dei. At the eschaton, God will complete what was the divine intention from the beginning and has from the beginning been set forth …
