Category Archives: Living Stones

For Mature Audiences

Eat this!

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

Notes from Eugene H. Peterson’s book: Eat this book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading. Peterson is the author/translator of The Message Bible. In his book Peterson likens Spiritual Reading to a dog with a bone; biting, gnawing, … Continue reading →

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A Long Obedience

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

  Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “The essential thing in heaven and earth is. . . that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made … Continue reading →

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It was worth a wound

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

It was worth a wound; it was worth many wounds; to show the depth of loyalty and love that was required to satisfy the retributive demands of divine justice by shedding his blood in sacrifice and so making possible justification … Continue reading →

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Of Spiritual Milk and Living Stones

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

Hebrews 5: 12b-14 You need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!  Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about … Continue reading →

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Square One

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

“I’m telling you, once and for all, that unless you return to square one and start over like children, you’re not even going to get a look at the kingdom, let alone get in. Whoever becomes simple and elemental again, … Continue reading →

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Is it true because I believe it or do I believe it because it is true; or the lessons of 1984

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

Having just finished re-reading 1984; George Orwell’s novel about a futuristic society that has degraded into a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, I was moved to write about it from a few different angles.

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Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Jim Greensmith

It is my endeavour, as Bunyan put it, to live a life such that those that see me would not see me but see Christ through me. That I would become so transparent that it would no longer be I … Continue reading →

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