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My name is Isaac. I write about life as a husband, dad & pastor in central Illinois.
  • August 3, 2010 9:08 am

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    Behold, O Lord God, yea, behold patiently as Thou art wont how carefully the sons of men observe the covenanted rules of letters and syllables received from those who spake before them, neglecting the eternal covenant of everlasting salvation received from Thee. …

    In quest of the fame of eloquence, a man standing before a human judge, surrounded by a human throng, declaiming against his enemy with fiercest hatred, will take heed most watchfully, lest, by an error of the tongue, he murder the word “human being”; but takes no heed, lest, through the fury of his spirit, he murder the real human being.

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    — The Confessions of St. Augustine

  • July 19, 2010 9:37 am

    "I hear so many Christians murmuring about their imperfections and their failures and their addictions and their shortcomings and I see so little war! “Murmur, murmur, murmur, why am I this way?” MAKE WAR! … If you wonder how to make war go to the manual. Don’t just bellyache about your failures. Make war!"

    — Dr. John Piper, How to Kill Sin