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June 30, 2008 by kevinstilley

Why Jesus?

The study Why: 40 Days Pursuing Answers To Life’s Biggest Questions recommends the following books for answering the question, “Why Jesus?”

Christianity and World Religions, by Sir Norman Anderson

Jesus’ Resurrection: Fact or figment?
, by Paul Copan and Ronald Tacelli

Jesus The Only Way, Gregory Koukl

Four Views On Salvation In A Pluralistic World, by Dennis Okholm and Timothy Phillips

What Difference Does Jesus Make? Tough Questions, by Garry Poole

The Case For Christ, by Lee Strobel

Jesus Under Fire, by Michael Wilkins and J.P. Moreland

The Challenge of Jesus, by N.T. Wright

The Resurrection and the Son of God, by N.T. Wright

Jesus Among Other Gods, by Ravi Zacharias

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Apologetics, Christology, resurrection, soteriology

June 29, 2008 by kevinstilley

A Passion For Books – Quotes

A collector recently bought at public auction, in London, for one hundred and fifty-seven guineas, an autograph of Shakespeare; but for nothing a school-boy can read Hamlet and can detect secrets of highest concernment yet unpublished therein.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Experience”

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The American Scholar

When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. My luggage is my library. My home is where my books are.
~ Desiderius Erasmus

There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery.
~ Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
~ Clifton Fadiman

If the crowns of all the kingdoms of the Empire were laid at my feet in exchange for my books and my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
~ Francois Fenelon

But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
~ Eugene Field in Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.
~ Gustave Flaubert

And indeed, what is better than to sit by one’s fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?
~ Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary

Read in order to Live.
~ Gustave Flaubert

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folk have lent me.
~ Anatole France

There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.
~ Anatole France

The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
~ William Gladstone

I have always suspected that authors lie about the books they read, their purported influences, much as men lie about their sex lives; they are at once ashamed and vain, reluctant to be judged, hiding behind a safe parapet like Joyce and Proust and Kafka.
~ Brian Glanville

The dear good people don’t know how long it takes to learn to read. I’ve been at it eighty years, and can’t say yet that I’ve reached the goal.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
~ Ursula Le Guin

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it ives you moral knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is moral illumination.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick

What is a book? Part matter and part spirit; par thing and part thought–however you look at it, if defies definition.
~ Ernest O. Hauser

All good books have one thing in common. They are truer than if they had really happened.
~ Ernest Hemingway

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice . . . and just as the touch of a button on our set will fill the room with music, so by taking down one of these volumes and opening it, one can call into range the voice of a man far distant in time and space, and hear him speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart.
~ Gilbert Highet

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
~ S.I. Hiyakawa

Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers.
~ Horace as quoted by Montaigne

Every man who knows how to read has it in him power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant, and interesting.
~ Aldous Huxley

Farther than arrows, higher than wings fly poet’s song and prophet’s words.
~ Inscription on the Brooklyn Public Library

Books are the most enduring monument of man’s achievement. Through them, civilization becomes cumulative.
~ Inscription in the Detroit Public Library

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalm’d and treasur’d up on purpose to a life beyond life.
~ Inscription in the New York Public Library.

Here genius lies enshrined.
Here sleep in silent majesty
The monarchs of the mind
~ Inscription in the St. Louis Public Library

People who don’t read are brutes.
~ Eugene Ionesco

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
~ Joseph Joubert

A reader finds little in a book save what he puts here. But in a great book he finds space to put many things.
~ Joseph Joubert

A book ought to be an icepick to break up the frozen sea within us.
~ Franz Kafka

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
~ Garrison Keillor

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I’ve gotten Dickens, Thackeray, Smollet, Richardson, Emerson, Keats, Boswell and the Brontes, all of them Great, none of them ever read by me, all of them now on a shelf, looking at me and making me feel guilty.
~Garrison Keillor

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
~ Helen Keller

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.
~ John F. Kennedy

The aim of great books is ethical: to teach what it means to be a man. Every major form of literary art has taken for its deeper themes what T.S. Eliot called “the permanent things”–the norms of human action.
~ Russell Kirk, in Enemies of the Permanent Things. LaSalle, IL: Sherwood Sugden and Co., 1984. page 41

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog’s ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.
~ Charles Lamb

In some respects the better a book is, the less it demands from the binding.
~ Charles Lamb

Magazines all too frequently lead to books, and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
~ Fran Lebowitz

Any kid who has parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn’t poor.
~ Sam Levenson

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
~ C. S. Lewis

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can’t expect an apostle to look out.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg

Books, nowadays, are printed by people who do not understand them, sold by people who do not understand them, read and reviewed by people who do not understand them, and even written by people who do not understand them.
~ G. C. Lichtenberg

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Quotes

June 29, 2008 by kevinstilley

New Audio Download Links

The most consistently popular post on any of my blogs is my list of links to free online audio downloads of Lectures, Seminars, Sermons, & Debates. I have recently added to this list two new links that I would like to draw to your attention. Currently, there are more than 5,000 downloads a month from the sermon archives at Bent Tree Bible Fellowship. And, Barry Creamer has returned to the World of Blog and has up links to download his radio broadcasts on Jerry Johnson Live and some of his most recent sermons. Both are excellent resources. Check them out.

Bent Tree Archive

The MP3 sermon archive from Bent Tree Bible Fellowship featuring sermons by Pete Briscoe, Stuart Briscoe, Steve Pruitt, Scott Dyer, and others.

Barry Creamer

Check out both his sermons and radio broadcasts. Barry teaches Humanities at Criswell College and Philosophy at other local Universities. I consider him to be one of the greatest preachers I know.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: audio dowload, Barry Creamer, Bent Tree, Blog, debates, Jill Briscoe, JoAnn Hummell, lecture, Mp3, Pete Briscoe, radio broadcasts, Scott Dyer, seminar, sermon, Steve Pruitt, Stuart Briscoe, Theology

June 29, 2008 by kevinstilley

Your BC Isn’t My BC

Ancient Public Toilet Bathroom CommodeThe following is a story I like to tell from time to time to illustrate the problem of communicating when the sender and receiver are not working from the same worldview or when the same vocabulary is used but a different lexicon.

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There was a rather old fashioned lady, always quite delicate in her use of language. She and her husband were planning a weeks vacation to Florida, so she wrote to a particular campground asking for a reservation.

She wanted to make sure the campground was fully equipped, but didn’t quite know how to ask about the toilet facilities. She just couldn’t bring herself to write the word “toilet” in her letter. After much deliberation, she finally came up with the old fashioned term “Bathroom Commode”, but when she wrote that down, [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Communication

June 29, 2008 by kevinstilley

A Prophet Without Honor

Prophet Without Honor Home TownToday’s Scripture reading from Mark 6 reminded me of a story I once heard. I share both below:

He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” (Mark 6:1-4)

Soon after he became president in 1912 Woodrow Wilson visited an aged aunt he hadn’t seen in some time. She asked him what he was doing now. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Family, gospel of mark, home town, Jesus, Leadership, prophet, words of jesus

June 29, 2008 by kevinstilley

Why Is The World So Messed Up?

The study Why: 40 Days Pursuing Answers To Life’s Biggest Questions recommends the following books for answering the question, “Why Is The World So Messed Up?”

Evil and the Cross, by Henri Blocher

Is God to Blame, by Gregory Boyd

Satan And The Problem of Evil
, by Gregory Boyd

The Problem of Pain, by C.S. Lewis

How Could God Allow Suffering and Evil? Tough Questions
, by Garry Poole

A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss, by Gerald Sittser

Can God Be Trusted?, by John Stackhouse

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Apologetics, Theodicy

June 28, 2008 by kevinstilley

Paradise & Gehenna According To The Talmud and Midrash

Paradise & Gehenna

There is a place in Eden and in Gehenna for every soul. The Zaddik receives his place and the place of a wicked man as well. By the same token, the wicked man receives his own place and the place of a Zaddik.
~ Hagigah, 15

No on partakes of the enjoyments of the World-to-Come because of his father’s merits.
~ Midrash Tehillim, 146, 2

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Filed Under: Blog, History, Quotes Tagged With: afterlife, aphorisms, gehenna, Heaven, Heaven & Hell, hell, Jewish, Midrash, parables, paradise, quips, Quotes, rabbinic, talmud, wisdom

June 28, 2008 by kevinstilley

Thoughts On Abuse and Insult from The Talmud and Midrash

To smite an Israelite is as if one smote the Shekinah.
~ Sanhedrin, 58

For every sin, a messenger is sent to punish, except the sin of abusing without cause, for which God Himself punishes.
~ Baba Metzia, 59

If thous sayest a minor word of abuse against another, consider it as if thous hads said a major word.
~ Derek Eretz Zuta, 1

Oftentimes a man praises his fellow in a low voice but derides him in a loud.
~ Sotah, 32

“And ye shall not wrong one another” (Lev. 25, 17). This injunction, repeated in verses 14 and 17 applies in one instance to money and in the other to words. How to words? If one is a penitent, say not: ” Remember thy previous deeds.” If one is the son of a proselyte, say not: “Remember thy father’s deeds.”
~ Sifra to Lev. 25,17

The Sages have told: Once at the close of Yom Kippur, all the people followed after the High Priest to escort him to his home. But when they observed Shemaiah and Abtalion, the left the High Priest and formed an escort for the Chief Justices. The latter, however escorted the Hight Priest to his home, for the sake of peace. The arrogant High Priest remarked to them: “May the sons of the Gentiles go in peace!” The Rabbis resented this reminder of their origin and declared: “May the sons of the Gentiles go in peace, for they imitate Aaron in seeking peace! But should the son of Aaron go in peace when he does not imitate his forefather in seeking peace?”
~ Yoma, 71

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June 28, 2008 by kevinstilley

Tips For Traveling With Kids

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, Parenting, travel

June 28, 2008 by kevinstilley

Mazda’s New Hydrogen Hybrid

WSJ’s John Murphy reviews Mazda’s new hydrogen hybrid, the Premacy Hydrogen Rotary Engine Hybrid. The vehicle, he says, is unique because it attempts to combine different types of green technology.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, energy, environment, Green Technology, Hybrid

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