Comments on: History of the Forgotten http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/ Less words, more cross Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:09:48 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: stevenhong http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-118 stevenhong Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:11:49 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-118 amtog, I would definitely pick up a book like that. amtog,

I would definitely pick up a book like that.

]]> By: amtog http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-116 amtog Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:51:11 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-116 Some day I want to write a book about about this very idea: that leading quiet, peaceable lives of integrity and faith in Jesus is the lot assigned to the overwhelming majority of God's people in the world. In the US, we seem to need to be told that God has great things in store for us, important things which we need to have courage to pursue for His glory, yet obviously most of those who loved and served God before us lived and died in relatively obscurity and anonymity. Many do the same today. Some day I want to write a book about about this very idea: that leading quiet, peaceable lives of integrity and faith in Jesus is the lot assigned to the overwhelming majority of God’s people in the world. In the US, we seem to need to be told that God has great things in store for us, important things which we need to have courage to pursue for His glory, yet obviously most of those who loved and served God before us lived and died in relatively obscurity and anonymity. Many do the same today.

]]> By: Cesar http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-114 Cesar Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:05:59 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-114 Saw this great quote a couple days ago: "I think that young men should be specially exhorted to read old books. If you have a friend in the ministry who is growing old, urge him to read mainly new books, that he may freshen his mind and keep in sympathy with his surroundings. "But must not young men keep abreast of the age?" Certainly, only the first thing is to get abreast of the age, and in order to this, they must go back to where the age came from, and join there the great procession of its moving thought." John Broadus, Lectures on the History of Preaching, 230-31. Saw this great quote a couple days ago:

“I think that young men should be specially exhorted to read old books. If you have a friend in the ministry who is growing old, urge him to read mainly new books, that he may freshen his mind and keep in sympathy with his surroundings. “But must not young men keep abreast of the age?” Certainly, only the first thing is to get abreast of the age, and in order to this, they must go back to where the age came from, and join there the great procession of its moving thought.”

John Broadus, Lectures on the History of Preaching, 230-31.

]]> By: David Ahn http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-112 David Ahn Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:44:37 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-112 wow... great thoughts. i appreciate this post, and the comments. wow… great thoughts. i appreciate this post, and the comments.

]]> By: stevenhong http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-111 stevenhong Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:23:46 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-111 I think people find the site through the tags on each entry. Wordpress has a Tag Surfer function, where you can read other people's blogs that are writing about the same thing you are. I think people find the site through the tags on each entry. WordPress has a Tag Surfer function, where you can read other people’s blogs that are writing about the same thing you are.

]]> By: H http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-110 H Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:51:37 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-110 Oh, and thanks. haha Oh, and thanks. haha

]]> By: H http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-109 H Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:50:29 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-109 I'm not so familiar with this wordpress thing, but it's kinda nice that you get people that you don't know offline to read your blog and comment on it. Or do you actually know everyone that comments personally? With this particular entry, I feel like I got so much out of it even though this isn't even my blog. Keep up the good work. I’m not so familiar with this wordpress thing, but it’s kinda nice that you get people that you don’t know offline to read your blog and comment on it. Or do you actually know everyone that comments personally?

With this particular entry, I feel like I got so much out of it even though this isn’t even my blog.

Keep up the good work.

]]> By: stevenhong http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-108 stevenhong Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:27:36 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-108 "I sometimes–more often than not–worry and am discouraged because I don’t really see God’s glory or honor in what I do. I wonder (mostly for myself) how what an engineer does at work would give honor to God by merely doing the engineering work instead of directly sharing the Gospel constantly." I feel you on this one. You know I struggle with this too. I don't feel the result of the curse as sharply as when I'm having work piled up on my desk at work and watching the seconds crawl by. But the fact is, the ground has been cursed, and we have been called to hard labor. I think that's why I think what Pat (http://pastorpatrick.wordpress.com) preached a few weeks ago from Titus 2:9, on "slaves being submissive to their masters...so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior" was so poignant; it is a matter of integrity, which is very important in God's eyes. Also, Paul writes that we work hard, "as unto the Lord and not for men" (Col. 3:23), because our treasures are in heaven. Considering those passages, it's not so much the product of our work that God is pleased by, but the hard work and integrity we do it with (like in the parable of the talents). These things are hard to write, because this is certainly a continual battle for me. And I second Tia's response. "I will be reading more of your blogs as they come!" Thanks for the encouraging words, Tim! “I sometimes–more often than not–worry and am discouraged because I don’t really see God’s glory or honor in what I do. I wonder (mostly for myself) how what an engineer does at work would give honor to God by merely doing the engineering work instead of directly sharing the Gospel constantly.”

I feel you on this one. You know I struggle with this too. I don’t feel the result of the curse as sharply as when I’m having work piled up on my desk at work and watching the seconds crawl by. But the fact is, the ground has been cursed, and we have been called to hard labor. I think that’s why I think what Pat (http://pastorpatrick.wordpress.com) preached a few weeks ago from Titus 2:9, on “slaves being submissive to their masters…so that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Savior” was so poignant; it is a matter of integrity, which is very important in God’s eyes. Also, Paul writes that we work hard, “as unto the Lord and not for men” (Col. 3:23), because our treasures are in heaven.

Considering those passages, it’s not so much the product of our work that God is pleased by, but the hard work and integrity we do it with (like in the parable of the talents). These things are hard to write, because this is certainly a continual battle for me.

And I second Tia’s response.

“I will be reading more of your blogs as they come!”

Thanks for the encouraging words, Tim!

]]> By: Tim Kurek http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-107 Tim Kurek Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:12:46 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-107 I just wanted to let you know that I love this blog... It made me think, and it also pointed out one very significant point... And that is that in all of these lives that we have "immortalized" we are giving less of the glory to God for their lives and more to them as people. Col. 3:2 says to set our minds on things above, and these people did that... But Any who truly does that will be remembered. Thank you so much for the thoughts! I will be reading more of your blogs as they come! http://uriahministries.wordpress.com tim kurek I just wanted to let you know that I love this blog… It made me think, and it also pointed out one very significant point… And that is that in all of these lives that we have “immortalized” we are giving less of the glory to God for their lives and more to them as people. Col. 3:2 says to set our minds on things above, and these people did that… But Any who truly does that will be remembered. Thank you so much for the thoughts! I will be reading more of your blogs as they come!

http://uriahministries.wordpress.com

tim kurek

]]> By: jennifer lee http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-106 jennifer lee Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:43:53 +0000 http://stevenhong.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/history-of-the-forgotten/#comment-106 i was reading this one book for my reformation europe class. it's called "Wallington's World" i loved it! Wallington is a simple artisan puritan in London, and the book is based on his journals. i'm not sure if the author of the book was Christian or not, but he wrote the book to convey the "flavor of popular Puritanism." reading about his was so encouraging because he lived a "normal" life - he wasn't a martyr or a great theologian, but he lived loving the Lord... a quote from the book (sorry, it's kind of long) "'Oh, let not one night pass over my poor head in which I examine not how I have spent the day' - but such an examined and painfully introspective existence was never seen as an end in itself, as a work of art or an effort to create meaning in a meaningless world. Rather, what scrupulous self-examination revealed was at once a record of human failure and of God's mercy in accepting and loving his fallen creation nonetheless. It was this latter aspect, the attention of a divinity who noted even the fall of a sparrow, that gave shape and dignity to the small triumphs and failures of an ordinary life, that elevated such a life, in fact, into a part of a cosmic drama. It was his (wallington's) determination to convey this central fact to his posterity - that even the life of an insignificant London artisan was of consequence in the eyes of God..." =D i was reading this one book for my reformation europe class. it’s called “Wallington’s World”
i loved it!
Wallington is a simple artisan puritan in London, and the book is based on his journals. i’m not sure if the author of the book was Christian or not, but he wrote the book to convey the “flavor of popular Puritanism.”
reading about his was so encouraging because he lived a “normal” life – he wasn’t a martyr or a great theologian, but he lived loving the Lord…

a quote from the book (sorry, it’s kind of long)
“‘Oh, let not one night pass over my poor head in which I examine not how I have spent the day’ – but such an examined and painfully introspective existence was never seen as an end in itself, as a work of art or an effort to create meaning in a meaningless world. Rather, what scrupulous self-examination revealed was at once a record of human failure and of God’s mercy in accepting and loving his fallen creation nonetheless. It was this latter aspect, the attention of a divinity who noted even the fall of a sparrow, that gave shape and dignity to the small triumphs and failures of an ordinary life, that elevated such a life, in fact, into a part of a cosmic drama. It was his (wallington’s) determination to convey this central fact to his posterity – that even the life of an insignificant London artisan was of consequence in the eyes of God…”
=D

]]>