Brad Newman

The brittle branches,
white as skeleton bones and
cold as death itself.

“What is worship? We answer: First, it is the action of the new nature seeking, as the sparks fly upward, to return to the Divine and heavenly source from which it came.” — A.W. Pink

"Our seeking of Him is only the reflex action of His first seeking us." – A.W. Pink

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“Death’s dark shadows put to flight.”

Yes, Merry Christmas.

Also, this cover is 🔥.

But what is impossible has become a fact by a movement in the opposite direction. God himself in his creative and revealing being has become man and ‘pitched his tent’ among us.” — Lesslie Newbigin

“It lies wholly beyond the power of flesh and blood of the will of man, to pass from darkness to light, to lay hold of the life of God…

Here’s a Christmas passage.

9! 🎉

“Thanks be to God, He is a Savior who seeks the lost, who with eyes supernaturally farsighted discerns us a long way off, and draws our interest to Himself by the sweet constraint of His grace, till we are face to face with Him and our soul is saved.“ — Geerhardus Vos

Finished “Orbital” today.

Plotless, but poetic. Gloriously fascinating, ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

He surrendered His body to death instead of all... This He did out of sheer love for us... Thus He would make death to disappear from (us)….” — Athanasius, “On the Incarnation”

"(Jesus) saw (our)...race...wasting out of existence, and death reigning over all in corruption... All this He saw, and… rather than that His creatures should perish… He took to Himself a body…

Chloe’s 12!

Legolas to Gimli, when Gimli wants to explore the caves at Helm’s Deep, but there’s not enough time:

“Do not spoil the wonder with haste.”

A good word for Christmastime, too. ✨

I’m here for all the “best books of the year” lists.

Can I post haiku here? Here’s one I wrote a year ago yesterday. And I still want to hurl just thinking about that day.

Four-thousand pounds of
minivan crunched the laptop.
I wanted to barf.

‘Tis the season to start Christmas sermon-ing! ✨

This year, from Matthew 1-2. BORN.

Wordle 1,248 2/6

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Thank you, yes!

“Jesus didn’t come to save us because we were worth saving, but because we were utterly worthless, ruined, and undone. He didn’t come to earth because of anything we’ve done to merit His love, but solely for reasons which He fetched from the depths of His own divine love.”

— C.H. Spurgron