FROM TODAY'S READING (8/20/2018)...
"Like the arch which grows stronger precisely by [force] of the weight you place upon it, so the story of the Gospels bears, with reassuring strength, the devotion of the centuries to Jesus as the Christ. What is music, asked Walt Whitman, but what awakens within you when you listen to the instrument? and Jesus is the music of the reality of God, and faith is what awakens when we hearken."
Kenneth Cragg (unpublished sermon, "Who Is Jesus Christ?")
Romans 1:16-17 (NLT) For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile. This Good News tells us how God makes us right in his sight. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the Scriptures say, “It is through faith that a righteous person has life."
Image: Creative Commons (Wikimedia/Gorge Hiking Trail in Acadia National Park)
