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Love that term: “hellenized latinos.”

I don’t usually post family stuff here, but this is just too good.

“You will be my witnesses” (Acts 1:8). In other words, sharing Christ is more than something we do; it is what we are.

–Luke 9:60

–Colin Marshall and Tony Payne

C.f. 1 Corinthians 9:27 and Philippians 3:15-18.

Psalm 125

I love this concept.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer:

No one has yet believed in God and the kingdom of God, no one has yet heard about the realm of the resurrected, and not been homesick from that hour, waiting and looking forward joyfully to being released from bodily existence . . . Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

–Psalm 20:7

When Jeremiah said, in his people’s hour of direst need, that “houses and fields [and vineyards] shall again be bought in this land,” it was a token of confidence in the future. That requires faith, and may God grant it to us daily. I don’t mean the faith that flees the world, but the faith that endures in the world and loves and remains true to that world in spite of all the hardships it brings us.

From Brandon Levering, my former grad school buddy (and across the hall neighbor).