In the Wreckless Raging Fury...

Remembered this classic from Rich Mullins today. What beautiful and sweet lines of theology... "glad to have been caught!"  

"The Love of God" -->

Glad abandon

“If we tunnel in to the very heart of Christian discipleship as articulated by Mark, we find, echoing the mission of Jesus himself, this startling principle: loss is gain. Death is life. Yielding all guarantees receiving all. Self-denial for the sake of the gospel is the secret to saving our life. This was the way the upside-down mission of Jesus worked out, and it is the path of discipleship for his people. Glad abandon is our only sanity" ”

- Dane Ortlund, Defiant Grace

Where headship is most fully embodied

“This headship, then, is most fully embodied not in the husband we should all wish to be but in him whose marriage is most like a crucifixion; whose wife receives most and gives least, is most unworthy of him, is -- in her own mere nature -- least lovable. For the Church has no beauty but what the Bridegroom gives her; he does not find, but makes her, lovely. The chrism of this terrible coronation is to be seen not in the joys of any man's marriage but in its sorrows, in the sickness and sufferings of a good wife or the faults of a bad one, in his unwearying (never paraded) care or his inexhaustible forgiveness: forgiveness, not acquiescence" ”

- CS Lewis, The Four Loves

Gamaliel's Advice & the Logic of the Cross

This was a very interesting article on Gamaliel's advice to the Sanhedrin (Acts 5:29-32) and how it parallels our natural inclination to wrongly interpret circumstances as either the prsence (or absence) of God's blessings-->
Walk Humbly with Your God

Where God is to be found...

“If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ. And whoever would find him must go to the foot of the Cross, as the Sermon on the Mount commands. This is not according to our nature at all, it is entirely contrary to it. But this is the message of the Bible, not only in the New but also in the Old Testament.”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer