"History is lubricated by tears. Prayer, maybe most prayer (two thirds of the psalms are laments), is accompanied by tears. All these tears are gathered up and absorbed in the tears of Jesus."

Eugene Peterson

Your politicians are like wolves prowling and killing and rapaciously taking whatever they want. Your preachers cover up for the politicians by pretending to have received visions and special rev-elations.
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If a ruler listens to falsehood, all his officials will be wicked.

Proverbs 29:12

#BiblicalTrump

God's people have chased power over trust-in-God throughout history.

Evil strong men have always been a tempting idol. And the results are always disastrous.

It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell.
CS Lewis

"We don't so much lack knowledge, we lack reverence.
Fear-of-the-Lord is not a technique for acquiring spiritual know-how but a willed not-knowing.
It is not so much know-how we lack; we lack a simple being-there."

Eugene Peterson