February 2012
9 posts
Watch“I believe this passionately: that we don’t grow into creativity, we grow out of it. Or rather, we get educated out if it.” - Sir Ken Robinson
“Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is...”
– N.T. Wright
Berkshire Hathaway Report on Gold →
cdixon:
The second major category of investments involves assets that will never produce anything, but that are purchased in the buyer’s hope that someone else – who also knows that the assets will be forever unproductive – will pay more for them in the future. Tulips, of all things, briefly became a…
A beauty beyond words
simplyorthodox:
Christians have a glory and a beauty and a heavenly wealth which is beyond words, and it is won with pains, and sweat, and trials, and many conflicts, and all by the grace of God.
- St. Macarius the Great
He Rules the World with Truth and Grace
Loved this portion of a Lenten reading from N.T. Wright:
Part of the point of the ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, you see, and of Jesus’ own mission to make it happen, is that there was another power ruling the earth. If Jesus was to bring God’s rescuing rule to the world, the present power had to be defeated. Jesus’ ‘temptations’ are therefore the personal side of...
