Deceiving

Wolves in sheep’s clothing are hard for cartoonists to portray,

and perhaps nearly that hard for us to imagine. 

But Christ warns about them, We need to detect and avoid them.

– eab, 9/1/14

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Pulled Up, Pushed Up

 

The mighty oak from an acorn came,

Bursting, throbbing, growing in strain;

Pulled up by the light, pushed up by the rain.

It didn’t happen over night.

 

No stalwart man is instant made.

It takes pressure, decisions, days of shade;

Pulled up by prayer, pushed by reading, rare.

Small souls and fires quickly fade.    

               – eab, Sep. ’75

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Lewis Quote

ON THIS DATE

 

9/2   C. S. Lewis is said to have said,

“Apologetic work is so dangerous to one’s faith…”

on this date in 1946.

(book/page is unknown to eab)

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