Quotes Sep 17

“England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman.”- George Orwell, 1941.

The most important you can ever train your child to do is to worship the Triune God of grace ... Do we sit with our children 'in church' or 'in worship'? -  Daniel R Hyde

Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.- Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979)

One of the reasons why so few people are to be found
who seem sensible and pleasant in conversation is
that almost everybody is thinking about what he wants
to say himself rather than about answering clearly
what is being said to him.
--Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) _Maxims_ [1678], Maxim 139

The children are an indispensable part of the worshipping community, incorporated into the Christian community at baptism not as second-class church members to be merely tolerated, but as deeply cherished gifts of God to be embraced. They enter the church community as those called, like people of all ages, to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ' (2 Peter 3:18). And they enter the church community as both students, but also in an important sense as teachers and models, demonstrating time and time again the sheer grace childlike trust. - Sean D Witvliet, Carolyn Institute of Christian worship, Calvin College and Calvin theological seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan