“Something holy glimmers in beauty. Not the holiness we ‘re used to talking about in American Protestant evangelical churches — something powerful, even dreadful, while also abounding in eternal wonder and beauty. This beauty calls us past the temporal things of the world, asks us to sit and be still, and to ponder God.”- Timothy […]
“The Bible word for separate is kadosh. It’s often translated as ‘holy.’ . . . God separated so that he could join together in ever-more-complex systems of thriving and delight. To be holy is to become useful (emphasis author’s).”- John Ortberg In Chapter 3 (“Born to Bond”) of I’d Like You More . . . […]
“We are made for intimacy with God. He wants intimacy with us. That intimacy requires communication. God speaks to His people.”- John Eldredge “Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD […]