Saturday, May 16, 2009

Desperate to Get In

When Dalls Willard was asked: 'How do you do “evangelism-discipleship?”' - He responded: "My short answer: You ravish people with the blessings of the Kingdom. You make them hungry for it. That's why words are so important; we must be wordsmiths. You use words to ravish people with the beauty of the kingdom. It's the beauty of the kingdom that Jesus said was causing people to climb over each other just to get in. People become excited like the pearl-purchaser. They will give everything to get in."

Sounds like all that we seek might be about far more than mere religion or 'church-work' . . .

Friday, May 15, 2009

A Cornish Bendiction

Re bo Dew ha lowena genes pupprys! (may God and happiness be with you always!)
My maternal ancestor, John Partridge was born ca 1815 at Bodmin, Cornwall. He was a tin miner who came to Devon, where he married Mary Henley (b. ca 1821, Kingsteignton) who was then living in South Bovey, in the parish of Bovey Tracey.

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