January 2012
5 posts
“In general, a church must be more deeply and practically committed to deeds of...”
– Tim Keller, The Need for a ‘Missional’ Church, 2001
“At the heart of true pastoral ministry there is the knowledge that every human...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, The Good Shepherd p15
“We very quickly began to discover that those congregations under a voluntary...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season pp27,28
“The churches doesn’t have a social strategy, the church IS a social...”
– Hauerwas & Willimon, quoted by James Davidson Hunter
“The witness of which the New Testament passages speak is God’s gift, not...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret pp63-4
November 2011
3 posts
“Words without deeds are empty, but deeds without words are dumb.”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Signs Amid the Rubble p. xii
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“We cannot, within any hope of being believed, preach to men the word of our Lord...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season p4
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“This perspective of the ends of the earth is essential to the integrity of the...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, A Word in Season p2
October 2011
6 posts
“At the present time we witness everywhere the following paradoxical situation....”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man (1966 ed) pp25-26
“All history is written by selecting out of the almost infinite mass of recorded...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man (1966 ed) pp20-21
“If there is to be a true universal history, it will be written on the basis of a...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man (1966 ed) p21
“Secularization opens up the possibilities of new freedom and of new enslavement...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man (1966 ed) p19
2 tags
“Whatever one’s ultimate beliefs may be (and there is complete freedom to...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man (1966 ed) p16
“One might, in one’s sceptical moments, be inclined to question the...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man (1966 ed) p14
September 2011
4 posts
Lesslie Newbigin: More than a Theologian
“Duke University theologian Geoffrey Wainwright said that when the history of the 20th century church is written, Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1998) will be among the top 10 or 12 theological thinkers of the century.” Thus begins Michael Goheen’s tribute to Newbigin in The Lasting Legacy of Lesslie Newbigin.
I would agree. However, I would state it differently, and perhaps even more...
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to...”
– C.S. Lewis, quoted by John Piper
“It has never at any time been possible to fit the resurrection of Jesus into any...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man pp53-54 (1966 printing)
August 2011
7 posts
“The Gospel is vastly more than an offer to men who care to accept it of a...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Honest Religion for Secular Man, 1966 p46
“Since the intellectual part of the discourse is not that which is most likely to...”
– Robert Murray McCheyne, quoted by John Piper
Good News for Rioters
UK Prime Minister David Cameron has offered a grim picture of the perpetrators of violent looting in the UK:
“There are pockets of our society that are not only broken, but frankly sick. It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society, people allowed to feel that the world owes them something.”
Sick
Anyone who has seen the videos of roving youths attacking police officers,...
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Lesslie Newbigin lectures on the historical origin...
1 tag
Howard Mellor gave this talk in the Space in the...
1 tag
The Good Shepherd: Meditations on Christian... →
Out of print book by Lesslie Newbigin, kindly made available by Newbigin.net.
3 tags
In this lecture, John Burn of The Christian...
July 2011
1 post
“An evangelical is a plain, ordinary Christian.”
– John Stott, speaking to Christianity Today
February 2011
1 post
“There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or...”
– E.B. White, Here is New York
January 2011
4 posts
“It doesn’t matter, really, how great the pressure is,” he used to...”
– (Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. Howard. “Hudson Taylor’s Spiritual Secret.” China Inland Mission: Philadelphia. 1935. p107)
“At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think...”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
December 2010
3 posts
“For the true blessings of the soul are not now enjoyed; for that is no true...”
– Augustine, City of God p699
“There’s no other man, in such affliction as yours, to whom I’d dare...”
– C.S. Lewis, in a letter to Sheldon Vanauken, which inspired the book A Severe Mercy, and gave it its title. p210
“I know think that making God secondary (which in the end is to make Him nothing)...”
– Sheldon Vanauken A Severe Mercy p235
November 2010
6 posts
“The real triumphs of the gospel have not been won when the church is strong in a...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, The Open Secret p62
“A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his...”
– John Owen, Works, XVI, p. 76 via John Piper on John Owen
“The revelation … of Christ … deserves the severest of our thoughts,...”
– John Owen, Works, I, p. 275 via John Piper on John Owen
“I hold myself bound in conscience and in honor, not even to imagine that I have...”
– John Owen, Works, X, p. 488 via John Piper on John Owen
“I must now say, that, after all my searching and reading, prayer and assiduous...”
– John Owen, Works, I, p. lxxxv via John Piper on John Owen
“The true notion of holy evangelical truths will not live, at least not flourish,...”
– John Owen, Works, I, p. lxiv-lxv. via John Piper on John Owen
October 2010
2 posts
“As a pastor, I am certain that I need to realize that, under God, the local...”
– Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church p18
“Bad churches are terribly effective anti-missionary forces.”
– Mark Dever, Nine Marks of a Healthy Church p13
September 2010
3 posts
The Glory of History
It is the nature and glory of history that in every new moment, every now, there is a genuinely new opportunity for the display of the glory and kingdom of God that did not exist, and could not exist, a moment ago.
“The education of children for God is the most important business done on Earth....”
– R.L. Dabney, nineteenth century theologian (cited from Mars Hill School)
“The particularity of Christ is exactly what prevents the church from being an...”
– Kenda Creasy Dean, in The Christian Century
August 2010
1 post
“There is no other way by which human communities - whether a mountain tribe in...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Signs Amid the Rubble: The Purposes of God in Human History p88
July 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“The church witnesses to the true end for which all creation and all human being...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p117
“Christians can never seek refuge in a ghetto where their faith is not proclaimed...”
– Lesslie Newbigin, Foolishness to the Greeks p115
June 2010
1 post
“Go into any inner city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government...”
– Senator Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, quoted by Roland Fryer
May 2010
6 posts
“But it isn’t so much a matter of what you do as a parent; it’s who...”
– Freakonomics, p175