If we could...

"If we could muster a portion of the patriotism we feel toward our earthly nations into a patriotism and bravery in concert with the kingdom of God, the enemy would take fewer casualties to be sure."

Donald Miller, Searching For God Knows What

Loved this when I read it and still do, and with the Olympics and Super Bowl coming on us fast and furiously I think we could probably also say "If we could muster a portion of the devotion we feel toward our team..."

Books Being Read

Books being read in our home at this time:

A Midsummers Night's Dream (Play) - Shakespeare
Life Together - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Cost of Discipleship - Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Spiritual Leadership - J. Oswald Sanders
The Voyage of The Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis
Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices - Frank Viola & George Barna
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Searching For God Knows What - Donald Miller
My First Summer In The Sierra - John Muir
Original Intent - David Barton

Just thought I'd share.

So Many Books -- So Little Time

Books being read at our house by at least four of the seven that live here:

Justice in the Burbs by Will and Lisa Samson
Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore
Why We're Not Emergent (By Two Guys Who Should Be) by Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Irresistible Revolution by Shane Claiborne
The Importance of Being Foolish - How to Think Like Jesus by Brennan Manning
Simplfy Your Space by Marcia Ramsland
Revolution in World Missions by K.P. Yohonnan
Robin Hood
Dateable: are you? are they? by Justin Lookadoo and Hayley Morgan

What's being read at your house?

Questions

"Why don't our contagious joy, enthusiasm, and gratitude infect others with a love for Christ Jesus? Why doesn't the radiant loveliness of the Lord stream from our personalities? Why aren't we windows to God at work? Why aren't we transparent?"

Brennan Manning, The Importance of Being Foolish - How to Think Like Jesus

true religion

"To hold fast to God with one hand while you open wide the other to your neighbor-that is true religion and undefiled, that is the law and the prophets, that is to live the life Jesus came to teach us about and to demonstrate to us. "
George McDonald
spoken by his character, Thomas Wingfold, in Paul Faber, Surgeon, 1879