Ready, Grab!

[violetpoetess]

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next few sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

"Because the biblical texts have the power to release what Brueggemann calls a 'counter-

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[ambrosemcgrath]

"And this is the deal: I'll listen to what you have to say."

Jim Butcher Proven Guilty

[katiebgood]

"And in all of its words and phrases, paragraphs and "books," what the newer Testament wants above all to say to us is only this: It has happened-- "the most wonderful thing has happened." At great cost, Love has come down to where we are. You are loved-- and not only from afar, not only by Somebody "up there."

"Why Christian" by Douglas John Hall