Baraka Gerryshon started a Agape Touch for the Aged as a ministry to the elderly people of Kenya. Now they're serving people of all ages in outreach events. I asked him what I would see if I visited one of these events: “Vulnerable people of all ages gathered to be: spiritually encouraged, counseled, treated, and … Continue reading I’m Inspired by My Kenyan Friend’s “Agape Touch”
Month: July 2017
The Calvary Road and Roy Hession’s Quiet Revivalism
In The Calvary Road (1950), Roy Hession shared what he had learned from missionaries involved in the East African Revival.
G. K. Chesterton on Loving the Sinner and Hating the Sin
Chesterton said that Christianity made "room for wrath and love to run wild" by dividing them as with a sword. We can love the sinner and hate the sin.
“We Have Sinned and Grown Old, and Our Father Is Younger than We”
"I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician." - G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton’s “Adventures in Pursuit of the Obvious”
In his 1908 book, Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton described how adventure and comfort come together to make a “life of practical romance.”
Are There Really Streets of Gold? — C. S. Lewis on Believing in a Down-to-Earth Heaven
In The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis talked about the value of thinking about heaven in terms we are already familiar with.
“Perfect Humility Dispenses with Modesty”
C. S. Lewis on the difference between humility and modesty, from "The Weight of Glory"
“The Quest of the Inner Ring Will Break Your Hearts Unless You Break It”
C. S. Lewis gave this warning to a class of college students in an 1944 address called "The Inner Ring." It was included in the book, The Weight of Glory.
4 Things You Might Not Realize about the Old Testament Concept of Judgment
Leon Morris examined the words shaphat and mishpat in his study, "The Biblical Doctrine of Judgment"
“Transformed by a Piece of News” – J. Gresham Machen on the Gospel as History
"The strange thing about Christianity was that...it transformed the lives of men not by appealing to the human will, but by telling a story" - Machen, 1923