Mark Einselen

“Many Christians talk of engaging the culture. In fact, the culture is most dramatically engaged by the church presenting it with another culture, another form of community, rooted in her liturgical worship practices and manifested in the loving community that exists both in and beyond the worship service.”
― Carl Trueman

“Many of our greatest challenges in our spiritual lives aren't so much about what we are doing in our prayer lives but about what we're doing outside them.”
― Strahan Coleman, Beholding: Deepening Our Experience in God

“But if you're a leader, a fellow that other fellows look to, you've got to keep going. That was the thought which sailed us through the hurricane and tugged us up and down those mountains... and when we got to the whaling station, it was the thought of those comrades which made us so mad with joy that the reaction beats all effort to describe it. We didn't so much feel that we were safe as that they were saved.”
― Jennifer Armstrong, Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and The Endurance

“Sexual pleasure is a great blessing and gift from God, of course. But it is meant to be the fruit of loving as he loves, not an end in itself. When pleasure becomes the main goal of sex, society becomes utilitarian. You're valued if you're useful. And, in this case, you're useful if you stimulate my lusts.”
― Christopher West, Theology Of The Body For Beginners