It's Valentine's Day & I can't shake out of my head the words of that great Southerner Andrew Nelson Lytle: "The opposite of love is not hate but power." Long have I turned that over in my mind, & the more I turn, the deeper Lytle's insight drives. The essence of the tyrant is that he wants to be God and make everyone over in his own image. He hates the reckless variety a g... »
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3 things I learned by fulfilling a pledge http://goo.gl/fb/9Qy1S #ourCOG »
3 years ago, Letha and I made a financial pledge to our church for a specific project. The amount God directed us to give wasn’t reasonable. It was way more than we could afford. It wouldn’t be responsible to make such a commitment, and it would impossible to fulfill it. And besides, with the horrible [...] »