Profound: January 2013 Archives

Five Promises for Your Bible Reading and Prayer - Desiring God

We are satisfied with trivialities and counterfeits when "exceeding joy" is promised to us. Five truths to remember when you're tempted to trade your morning devotions for a few more minutes of sleep: God is inviting me to exceeding joy. His word will strengthen my weak faith. His word will shine light on the darkness around me. When I pray, God will work. This is the one thing that can't be taken from me.

What's Wrong With This Picture? « Ambiance

Via Dustbury. I'm reminded of the Red Dwarf novel Better Than Life.

"Matter is a corrective. Matter exerts a resistance, a counterforce, like wood to a carving knife or water to a ship's keel or air under an airplane's wings, that paradoxically enables us to get somewhere by making it more difficult. The Internet is a sensory deprivation tank.  It somehow has the exact specific gravity of a human brain, so that it cancels out the heavy, reminding tug of our bodies.  It deceives us that whatever we can imagine is not only possible, but already sufficiently existent without the salutary work and frustration that is matter's accursed blessing.  Our minds are crumbling like the bones of astronauts who have lived too long in weightlessness."