Scripture: Acts 28:14b-31
“We all long for Eden and are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature is soaked with the sense of exile.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“The enthusiasms of my conversion have worn off. For whole stretches since the dream, since the baptism, my belief has faltered, my sense of God’s closeness has grown strained, my efforts at living in accord with what I take to be the call of the gospel have come undone…. Once upon a time, I thought I had arrived. Now I have arrived at a middle.”
Lauren Winner, Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
“In Jesus Christ we witness the long-awaited vindication and effective demonstration of God’s kingship in the world. The coming of Christ is the climax of the whole history of redemption as recorded in the Scriptures. The rightful king has established a beachhead in his territory and calls on his subjects to press his claims ever farther in creation.”
Al Wolters, Creation Regained
“Is there nothing to sing about today? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be.”
Charles Spurgeon
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