“We have declared war on [sin]; we are not going to resume negotiations . . . We have crucified the flesh; we are never going to [with]draw the nails.” John R. W. Stott, The Message of Galatians (Downers Grove: InterVarsity, 1971), 152; cited in Derek W. H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the… [Read more…]
December 22, 2011
“We are all wired for self-justification, so imperatives can feed into our need to do something in order to make ourselves a little more justified.” Derek W. H. Thomas, How the Gospel Brings Us All the Way Home (Orlando: Reformation Trust, 2011), 46.
October 19, 2011
“. . . the passions the game induces consume everything, including tact and common sense. If it is possible to attend and enjoy a football match sixteen days after nearly a hundred people died at one . . . then perhaps it is a little easier to understand the culture and circumstances that allowed these… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
“One of the great things about sport is its cruel clarity: there is no such thing, for example, as a bad one-hundred-metre runner, or a hopeless centre-half who got lucky; in sport, you get found out.” Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch (New York: Riverhead, 1992), 201.
October 19, 2011
“. . . I still go to every home game, and feel the same tensions and elations and glooms that I have always felt, I now understand them to have an entirely separate identity whose success and failure has no relationship with my own. That night, I stopped being an Arsenal lunatic and relearnt how… [Read more…]
October 19, 2011
“But after a while, when conversation started to flag, they wanted to know why the game hadn’t started and what the Englishmen were saying, and it wasn’t until then that I understood what was going on. So I had to explain to a group of beautiful young Italian boys and girls that in Belgium, the… [Read more…]
December 22, 2011
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