However you feel about his later decisions, this spontaneous charisma was the stuff of apocryphal stories about Washington or Lincoln we assume are embellished. But it happened. 25 years ago, a man not known for his silver tongue was possessed by the moment & spoke into history.
Lord of the Rings. You watch those movies and you think, “Man those books have to be epic. I can’t wait to see what extra stuff is in there.”
The extra stuff is all singing. Just garbage singing all the time.
The most divisive and destructive kinds of legalism in evangelical churches today comes by the subtle conflation of one's personal and prudential application of God's commands with God's actual commands, then binding others to it as if their way is the only way to obey Him.
“So you have a lot of sports teams”
“Yes Dave”
“That play a lot of games”
“Yes Dave”
“And they have to travel to places like New Jersey and Pennsylvania all the way from Washington”
“Yes Dave”
“When there’s perfectly good competition on the Pacific coast”
“Yes Dave”
“And you’re doing this to make more money”
“Yes Dave”
“But you’re still losing money”
“Yes”
Recently heard someone say this as the purpose of the Christian, and it is hard to improve upon it: "Do the next thing in faith, with excellence, and for the glory of God."