Tebow in Babylon - NYTimes.com
May this be said of all of us who profess Christ.
When you’re called to be a Christian, you’re automatically called to be different from everyone else. In today’s world of basketball, it makes you really different, because the things that society values aren’t necessarily in line with what God values.
Much of it comes down to humility. We as Christians are called to be humble. And if we really understand the gospel, we will be humble. We should be humble, and understand that everything that is good comes from God.
— http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Jeremy-Lin-Faith-and-Ethnicity.html?print=1Part 1: http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Faith-and-Fate-of-Jeremy-Lin.html?print=1
Part 2: http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Jeremy-Lin-Faith-and-Ethnicity.html?print=1
Jesus defines impact very differently than we do.
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The secret of the Psalter
A psalm that we cannot utter as a prayer, that makes us falter and horrifies us, is a hint to us that here Someone else is praying, not we; that the One who is here protesting his innocence, who is invoking God’s judgment, who has come to such infinite depths of suffering, is none other than Jesus Christ himself. He it is who is praying here, and not only here but in the whole Psalter.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer, from Life Together (emphases mine)
Happy New Year! Let’s read through the Bible in 2012!
