This has to be one of the more fascinating stories I’ve seen in a long time. New Yorker Julio Diaz gets robbed at knifepoint, and then calls out to his mugger that “If you’re going to be robbing people for the rest of the night, you might as well take my coat to keep you […]
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I’m beginning to re-read Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy. This is the single most influential book besides the Bible in my faith development to this point. It starts off brilliantly, with this parable:
Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep ascent—and flew […]
(Original image by khaane)
I’m doing home construction/renovation work as my summer job, which is meaning that I’m doing a whole lot of painting. The bathroom that we’re currently working on was not constructed to the most exacting standards (read: shite) so that our fresh coat of paint is only moderately covering the dodgy workmanship underneath.
This got […]
I want to share a story with you that I heard today at a conference called “What Love Does,” hosted by the Saint John Vineyard. It was told by Mark Taverner, a Vineyard pastor in Langley, B.C. Someone from his church had been at McDonald’s (boo) and had met a homeless guy there who asked […]
