September 2011
4 posts
“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...
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Howard Mellor gave this talk in the Space in the...
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The Good Shepherd: Meditations on Christian... →
Out of print book by Lesslie Newbigin, kindly made available by Newbigin.net.
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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 