Thomas Carlyle used to say that the easy, chatty optimism of Ralph Waldo Emerson maddened him. In his opinion “no really dark shadow had ever fallen across Emerson’s sheltered life”. He said that Emerson “seemed like a man who, standing well back from the least touch of spray from the storm, throws chatty observations about…
Most historians agree that the 272-word speech given by President Abraham Lincoln, on November 19, 1863, to dedicate the Battlefield of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is one of the greatest speeches of all time. Lincoln said, “The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but they can never forge what they did…
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung, and possibly be broken…the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of (God’s) love is Hell”. The Bible’s main message is best summed up in John 3:16-“God so…
PASTOR’S PERSPECTIVE: THE INESCAPABLE PERETUBATIONS OF GOD’S LOVE “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung, and possibly be broken…the only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of (God’s) love is Hell”. The Bible’s main message…