Never mind the manoeuvres, just go straight at ‘em. Horatio Nelson Nelson was of the opinion that in war no captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy. According to Edgar Vincent, his method for evolving plans was not analytical. He despised “pen and ink men”. He relied [...]
Category Archives: Quotes
Bob-isms
25 September, 2009 – 2:47 AM
I’ve been hanging out with Bob Roberts at the Crossway conference this week. That’s Bob on the right tickling a church planter. That man is out of control. Here’s just a few of his quotable quotes. On the key to success Every big thing has always started from simple obedience. God puts something on my [...]
Back to the future
20 September, 2009 – 9:33 PM
The great Christian revolutions come not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when somebody takes radically something that was always there.
Lost for words
11 September, 2009 – 12:49 AM
It was Francis of Assisi who said, “Preach the Gospel at all times. When necessary use words.” Actually, that’s not true. Francis never said it. Just as Marie Antoinette never said, “Let them eat cake.” And Humphrey Bogart in the film Casablanca never said “Play it again Sam.” Nor did Sherlock Holmes say, “Elementary my [...]
Who owns the Great Commission?
28 May, 2009 – 12:45 AM
A gem of an insight from a practitioner in Africa. Church planting movements are about ownership. Who owns the Great Commission? A CPM gives ownership of the Great Commission to the new believer and the local church. Some things never change.
The god of no dogmas
5 April, 2009 – 4:08 PM
The god of whom no dogmas are believed is a mere shadow. He will not produce that fear of the Lord in which wisdom begins and therefore will not produce that love in which it is consumated…. There is in the minimal religion nothing that can convince, convert, or (in the higher sense) console; nothing [...]
Give up
16 November, 2008 – 7:16 PM
Here’s a quote that sums out the journey of the last few years, or maybe my whole life. Somehow running into a brick wall this time last year has set me free to discover it’s truth. From CS Lewis. . . of course. Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your [...]
Good writers
13 November, 2008 – 5:54 AM
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acurate readers. Friedrich Nietzche
Why the substance of faith matters
25 October, 2008 – 1:42 PM
In an age of skepticism, cynicism, and false “freedoms,” Dorothy Sayers (1893-1957) was a passionate and occasionally scathing voice of reason. Like her friends C.S. Lewis, T.S. Eliot, and Charles Williams, Sayers was a brilliant Christian thinker, an Anglo-Catholic who took doctrine seriously and bristled at the growth of “fads, schisms, heresies, and anti-Christ” within [...]
Wesley’s covenant prayer
19 October, 2008 – 10:53 AM
Some Wesleyan friends introduced me to John Wesely’s Covenant Prayer. I am no longer my own, but yours. Put me to what you will, rank me with whom you will; put me to doing, put me to suffering; let me be employed for you or laid aside for you, exalted for you or brought low [...]
