Recent quote

• Words from Mark Palmer

  In the spring of 2007 I attended an event at Vineyard Central in Norwood, Ohio.  One of the purposes of this gathering was to celebrate the lives of two of the church’s members who had died in the year past.  Though I never had the honor of meeting either man, someone shared a quote [...]

  August 31st, 2008

• Quote of the Day

  And my mom said I didn’t have the sense that God gave a goose!
  "You can purchase anything off the Internet except common sense," Harrison [a zoo director] said. "A venomous snake isn’t a pet. You don’t play with it. If you do, you’re an idiot."

  To read the context of this quote, go [...]

  July 15th, 2008

• Him Whose Yoke Is Easy and Whose Burden Is Light – A Quote from Paul Tillich

  The following quote is taken from Paul Tillich’s book “The Shaking of the Foundations,” and it is specifically from Chapter 11: The Yoke of Religion, which can be read in it’s entirety here.  In this chapter, Tillich is reflecting on Matthew 11:25-30, which is also part of the appointed readings for this coming Sunday.
  We [...]

  July 5th, 2008

• How We Are Saved: A Quote from Reinhold Niebuhr

  I ran across this great quote recently and thought I would post it.

  Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime,Therefore, we are saved by hope.Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history;Therefore, we are saved by faith.Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone.Therefore, we are saved [...]

  June 5th, 2008

• A Quote from Henri Nouwen

  Love Remains

  Hope and faith will both come to an end when we die. But love will remain. Love is eternal. Love comes from God and returns to God. When we die, we will lose everything that life gave us except love. The love with which we lived our lives is the life of God within [...]

  May 17th, 2008