Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read

A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .

In fasting, what begins with experiencing the emptiness of our stomach ends in experiencing the emptiness of the world.

The Common Rule

Justin Whitmel Earley

In short, hell is simply one’s freely chosen identity apart from God on a trajectory into infinity. We see this process “writ small” in addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling, and pornography.

The Reason for God

Timothy Keller

Indeed, our consumer society is grounded in the generation of artificial desires, readily transposed into urgent needs. The always-emerging new desires and new needs create a restless striving that sets neighbor against neighbor in order to get ahead, to have an advantage, and to accumulate at the expense of the other. The power of such a compulsion to “get,” of course, negates neighborly possibility.

Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide

Walter Brueggemann

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