Andy Hoffman

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Look, you were internal, and I external. And I looked for you in external things. Unlovely, I rushed thoughtlessly among the things of beauty you made. You were with me, but I was not with you. —Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, […]

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection The depths of our conscience are naked to your eyes. What in me could be hidden from you even if I were unwilling to confess to you? I might be able to hide you from myself, but not myself from you.

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection Have you—although present everywhere—cast our misery far away from you? You rest in yourself, but we are disquieted with various trials. Yet unless our weeping reached your ears, we would have no hope —Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper Room

This week’s featured book: Writings of Augustine by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, Editor   Today’s Reflection My soul’s house is cramped. Expand it, so that you may enter in. It is in ruins. Restore it. It must offend your eyes. I confess and know it, but who will cleanse it? —Augustine, edited by Keith Beasley-Topliffe, The Upper

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection That kind of divisiveness, anger, brokenness, those fragmentations and estrangements, proves and fully demonstrates our sin. And when shall God end such fragmentation? . . . The Table of course—for Christ invites all to his Table. —Thomas R. Steagald, A

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection The heart of adoration is love of God for God’s sake. It is the most selfless of prayers, the most silent of prayers: the pray-er reveals in the presence and person of God as much as is humanly possible. —Thomas

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection Suffering gives way to victory and lamentation to song. Purple may be the color of our lives on this side of the river, but every funeral day becomes the day of the Lord, and all will be white. —Thomas R.

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection When people forget past deliverance, along with the stories and prayers that tell and accompany that deliverance, they are likely to lose both faith and hope, their present and future identity along with their history. —Thomas R. Steagald, A House

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection God’s Grace is expressed in the water but not limited to the water. With water or without, God claims us, and does not despise the affliction of the afflicted but desires that all God’s children be well and at peace.

This week’s featured book: A House of Prayer by Thomas R. Steagald   Today’s Reflection We rarely highlight this remarkable fact: that in the face of the hungry crowd, Jesus took what was handed to him and gave thanks for it. —Thomas R. Steagald, A House of Prayer: The Power of Praying in Community (Upper