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The problem for most of those who say they don’t want to live forever because it would be claustrophobic and it’s the finite nature of life that gives it value is that most of them are simply imagining ‘more of the same’
The Five Vs are a process whereby we start leadership in the right brain with the formation of vision and values, then hand these off to the left brain to form vehicles and vocabulary, and is then hand these back to the right brain to reassess our valuations.
Gods transcendence (meaning that he is above everything) and his immanence (that he is close to everything and everyone) define his eternal love and strength. That’s not something the human mind can easily grasp. It’s a lifetime project, and if you think you know, then you don’t
The Bible doesn’t merely contain information about reality; it trains us in a particular way of perceiving reality.
Is therapeutic deism still a thing?
Are we still trying to secularise the sacred rather than acknowledge how much the facts of the universe are stacking up to point to a benevolent creator? Purpose, life, nature and the cosmos. Very good podcast
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Phil Stokes retweeted
Simplify to Multiply: Factoring Reproducibility into the Equation from the Get Go alanhirsch.com/content/artic…
Don’t choose between big church and small church. Build churches that are BigSmall.
reachlondon.org/2023/01/bigs…
“Spirituality for a quantum universe”
The universe is not the simple, solid, predictable machine that our everyday consciousness assumes it to be. At its deepest levels, reality is mysterious, relational and resistant to our attempts to grasp and control it…
What do we have more faith in - our own actions or the power of prayer? Until the balance swings to the latter we remain frustrated and see less than the fruit we otherwise could.
🎸 Remembering Paul Kossoff — September 14, 1950 – March 19, 1976.
The man who told a story in a single note.
To be able to see the things that are hidden requires that we sometimes withdraw from what is illuminated to enable our eyes to adjust to a different level of light, just as withdrawing from the city to a ‘dark sky’ is the only way to illuminate the beauty of the Milky Way.
