The Tension of Time
Weekly Reading
Monday: Deuteronomy 1, Acts 26
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 2
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 3, Acts 27
Thursday: Acts 28
Friday: Romans 1
Saturday: Psalm 86-88
Sunday: Isaiah 16-32
Tuesday: Deuteronomy 2
Wednesday: Deuteronomy 3, Acts 27
Thursday: Acts 28
Friday: Romans 1
Saturday: Psalm 86-88
Sunday: Isaiah 16-32
Sermon Notes
Key Passage: Ecclesiastes 3:1-22
Definition of time: measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues and in which events occur that are irretrievable once they pass
“We must have some room to breathe. We need freedom to think and permission to heal. Our relationships are being starved to death by velocity. No one has the time to listen, let alone love. Our children lay wounded on the ground, run over by our high-speed good intentions. Is God now pro-exhaustion? Doesn't He lead people beside the still waters anymore? Who plundered those wide-open spaces of the past, and how can we get them back? There are no fallow lands for our emotions to lie down and rest in. We miss them more than we suspect.” - Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
William Wilberforce, when speaking on progress in virtue asserts that it can be measured by: “the fear and love of God and of Christ; love, kindness and meekness toward our fellow men; indifference to possessions and events of this life compared with our concern about eternity; self-denial and humility… above all, measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.”
“So many of us feel we have no time to cook and serve a lovely three-course dinner, to write the long, thoughtful letter, to ever so patiently tutor a child. But other generations, not so long ago, did. And we have more time saving devices than they did.” - Columnist Peggy Noonan
“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.” - EF Schumacer
Definition of time: measurable period during which an action, process, or condition exists or continues and in which events occur that are irretrievable once they pass
“We must have some room to breathe. We need freedom to think and permission to heal. Our relationships are being starved to death by velocity. No one has the time to listen, let alone love. Our children lay wounded on the ground, run over by our high-speed good intentions. Is God now pro-exhaustion? Doesn't He lead people beside the still waters anymore? Who plundered those wide-open spaces of the past, and how can we get them back? There are no fallow lands for our emotions to lie down and rest in. We miss them more than we suspect.” - Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
William Wilberforce, when speaking on progress in virtue asserts that it can be measured by: “the fear and love of God and of Christ; love, kindness and meekness toward our fellow men; indifference to possessions and events of this life compared with our concern about eternity; self-denial and humility… above all, measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.”
“So many of us feel we have no time to cook and serve a lovely three-course dinner, to write the long, thoughtful letter, to ever so patiently tutor a child. But other generations, not so long ago, did. And we have more time saving devices than they did.” - Columnist Peggy Noonan
“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.” - EF Schumacer
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