The Kiss

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  “Ryabovitch pulled the bed-clothes over his head, curled himself up in bed, and tried to gather together the floating images in his mind and to combine them into one whole. But nothing came of it. He soon fell asleep, and his last thought was that someone had caressed him and made him happy—that something extraordinary, foolish, but joyful and delightful, had come into his life. The thought did not leave him even in his sleep. When he woke up the sensations of oil on his neck and the chill of peppermint about his lips had gone, but joy flooded his heart just as the day before.” The Kiss By Anton Chekhov (1860–1904)

Authority of the Bible

"Christians must continually reduce every argument we hear today to this simple thing: Am I to accept this person's word, or the word of Christ? If this agrees with what he says, fine, it is truth. But if it does not, then I must decide whether the challenging authority is greater or less than Jesus Christ. As Christians, we are continually confronted with choices, whether we will accept the puny, flimsy, uncertain authority of a mere man, or the certain, sold and clear word of the Lord Jesus Christ."

--Ray Stedman, "The Forces We Face" (Sermon on Eph 6:10)

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