"If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity...how many of them would turn out to have been reasoned out of it by honest argument?
Do not most people simply drift away?" C.S. Lewis

Nietzche on Authenticity

German philosopher Nietzsche said, "If you want me to become a Christian, you will have to look a lot more like Jesus Christ!"

America will never be destroyed from outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves. Abraham Lincoln

Howard Guiness on Sacrifice

Where are the young men and women of this generation who will hold their lives cheap and be faithful even unto death? Where are those who will lose their lives for Christ's sake, flinging them away for love of him? Where are those who will live dangerously and be reckless in his serve? ....Where are the adventurers, the explorers, the buccaneers for God who count one human soul of far greater value than the rise or fall of an empire? ... Where are God's men in this day of God's power?

Howard Guinness, Sacrifice, posted by Ray Ortlund, Jr. (his blog is Christ is Deeper Still)

C.S. Lewis -- on the 21st Century

"Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed." ~ A Preface to Paradise Lost

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G.K. Chesterton

Luke 15

I've been thinking a lot about Luke 15 and the parables there -- the lost coin, sheep and son(s). I'm thinking another message series based on Jesus' stories, all centering on His reason for telling them -- how the religious folks reacted to the company He kept.

¹ Tax collectors and other notorious sinners often came to listen to Jesus teach. ² This made the Pharisees and teachers of religious law complain that he was associating with such sinful people—even eating with them! (Luke 15:1, 2)