Started: 11/20/2015Ended: 12/2/0215
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
(#30) Radical, by David Platt
Started: 11/16/2015Finished: 11/20/2015
"The challenge is for one year, and it involves five components. I dare you over the next year to...
1. pray for the entire world;
2. read through the entire Word;
3. sacrifice your money for a specific purpose;
4. spend your time in another context;
5. commit your life to a multiplying community."
"After spending a week around precious children who eat a small cup of porridge a day, the question I have come back to Birmingham asking God is why he has blessed me when others have so little. And this what God has shown me: "I have blessed you for my glory. Not so you will have a comfortable life with a big house and a nice car. Not so you can spend lots of money on vacations, education, or clothing. Those aren't bad things, but I've blessed you so that the nations will know me and see my glory." ~p.84
"Being a part of a community of faith involves being exposed to the life of Christ in others. Just as we are identified with Christ and his church in baptism, we now share life in Christ with one another. So to whom can you deliberately, intentionally, and sacrificially show the life of Christ in this way? This is foundational in making disciples, and we will multiply the gospel only when we allow others to get close enough to us to see the life of Christ in action." ~pp.98-99
"This is the unavoidable conclusion of Matthew 10. To everone wanting a safe, untroubled, comforatble life free efrom danger, stay away from Jesus. The danger in our lives will always increase in proportion to the depth of our relationship with Christ." ~p.167
(#29) The Auschwitz Escape, by Joel C. Rosenberg
Started: 11/7/2015
Finished 11/15/2015
I'm not a huge novel/fiction fan, as I would rather read non-fiction: historical books, evangelical books, etc. But I thoroughly enjoyed this one, and I couldn't put it down. This was a fictionalized account of several real-life escapes from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp as detailed in the Auschwitz Protocols.
While reading it one afternoon at swim team practice, a gentleman was sitting beside me watching his granddaughter swim. He noticed the title of my book and asked me about it. So I struck up a conversation with. He said there was no way anyone could have escaped from that camp, because he had been there and seen it first hand. I didn't know how to rebut this, because I had not yet learned about the Protocols.
That led to him sharing how he had been to the Auschwitz Museum near Krakow, Poland, this past February. He pulled up images on his iPad and showed me all of the pictures he had taken. It was truly remarkable to see all of the museum pictures. Needless to say, I added Poland to my bucket-list travel destinations.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
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