Eye Catchers – August 3rd

Bits and bobs from around the web this week: Apple Media Event All But Confirmed for September 12th, iPhone Launch Likely Here comes the next iPhone. London2012 Opening Ceremony: The power and the might The London 2012 Summer Olympic games get underway Q & A: Os Guinness on What Freedom in the Balance Looks Like My friend Os Guinness taking …

Os Guinness – Civilisation Too Fragile

“Is our age passing from civilization to barbarism? Civilization is too fragile. Always the result of human consciousness and its confidence, it is never the product of its achievements, however glorious, or its institutions, however solid. The West today, with its self-confidence sagging, vitality ebbing, and order eroded, knows only introspection, lethargy, traditions. Prone from exhaustion, a prey to its …

Os Guinness on Francis Schaeffer

“Schaeffer was the first Christian I met who was concerned to, and capable of connecting the dots and making sense of the extraordinary times that puzzled and dismayed most people.” From An Interview with Os Guinness on the 25th Anniversary of Francis Schaeffer’s Death. Some great thoughts and reflections from Dr. Os Guinness. We’ve just been looking at Apologetics and …

Train Your Mind

Discipline. It is the one area of life where there simply are not any shortcuts to victory. And as with our bodies, regular training of our mind is crucial if we are to get the best out of what we have been given. How and what we think affects how we act. Ideas have consequences. What we believe informs what …