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    The poet rethinks the art of preaching. Brueggemann beleives that a profound change in the way we preach will help lost people find their spiritual home. This book is awe inspiring to me. The dramatic way in which the prophets stood up to injustice with nothing more then an old text and the powerful belief that God would do what God had said. This book helped restore my faith in this second phase of my journey.
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    In a culture stripped of grace what is the motivation to give? How do we forgive when it often seems futile and conterintuitive? Volf answers these questions in the light of God's genrousity and Christ's sacrifice for us.
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September 15, 2007

Thoughts on a now quiet saturday evening...

As young Jesus freaks back in the early 70's many of us lugged around a copy of A. W. Tozer's book "Following hard after God." I found a quote of his that resonated with me while reading tonight.

The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead, are programs, methods, organizations and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart. The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all.

–A.W. Tozer
Following Hard After God

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