Three Streams

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Entries for August, 2008

What can a 17th century Monk teach Evangelicals?

I’m currently reading The Practice of the Presence of God by brother Lawrence again. I bought this book when I first got saved and I am finding it refreshingly straightforward and uncomplex. Despite critcisms from various believers within evangelicalism, I do not think this book will lead people into Eastern Paganism…

Is it all about Jesus or all about you?

Is Jesus enough for you? Although we often sing this chorus
“It’s all about You, Jesus
And all this is for You
For Your glory and Your fame
It’s not about me
As if You should do things my way
You alone are God and I surrender
to Your ways”
Yet if modern preaching is to be a gaige for understanding our relationship [...]


    "Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell".
    C.T. Studd