A classic is something that everyone wants to have read and nobody wants to read.-- Mark Twain, "The Disappearance of Literature"

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (seen in the Linux 'fortune' command)

"[New Testament] scholarship is sometimes overimpressed with its own judgments about what Paul could, or (especially) could not have said or done."  "One can be sure, for example, that if we did not have 1 Corinthians, one of the "assured results" of NT scholarship would be that Paul and his churches new nothing of the Eucharist.  Indeed, but for the abuses in the church in Corinth, one can only imagine what other assured results based on silence there might be." -- Gordon D. Fee, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, a Good News Commentary, ed. W....

Found in the Linux fortune command: ...

(At about 45:00 through his "Why multi-site?" podcast.)  "My point in showing you this historically is that every single church is on the contextualisation continuum.  The question is not, 'Will you contextualise?', the question is, 'What is the cutting edge of the year that you are on?'"  Some of his examples based on technology in use in our church buildings are: ...