What a treat to be with #TomWright at the London launch in Westminster of his magisterial biography of Paul. “The world’s leading New Testament scholar” #Newsweek.

“Unity is ‘easy’ if you don’t care about holiness, and holiness is ‘easy’ if you don’t care about unity. The Apostle Paul pursued both together” #TomWright talking about his wonderful book Paul: a biography.

“Paul did not say that the name of game is to get to heaven when you die - but to frame a new humanity, a new cultural and social reality” #TomWright.

“The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish, it’s the person you become.” #DallasWillard

“Democracy is obviously harder than we think. Democracy is not the easiest form of government. It does require attention and participation and carrying out the social contract”. #MadeleineAlbright. What, we may ask, will underpin the social contract?

“There are deep issues in our lives that cannot be handled without moral knowledge - which will allow us to act, to direct action, to formulate and supervise policy, and to teach. That’s what we have lost.” #DallasWillard

“The experience of missing a loved one is a small clue that we were made for eternity.” #GregJessons

“I find it curious that we often speak about people thinking too highly of themselves. I don’t even think I have ever met a person who thought highly enough of himself [herself].” #DallasWillard Life Without Lack

“Many chief executives are, to use plain language, knackered in the face of 24-hour Twitter, constant travel (all part of being ‘visible’) and the ever present worry about bad news” #ThirdSector Sept/Oct 2018

In solitude "we are set free from the many 'false selves' we have built up in order to cope with the expectations others place upon us - and we place upon ourselves. Solitude empowers us to walk away from all human pretense and manipulation" #RichardFoster

Here’s a good reason to incorporate some #solitude into our #sabbath this weekend.

You might expect Jesus to have said “your money will follow your heart”. Well he didn’t. He said “your heart will follow your money”.

“Status is increasingly measured not by what we earn, or what we contribute, but by what we experience, what we photograph and what we choose to share” #TimAdams #TheObserver

“The idea of intensity, of living to the limit has become another way to fill the God-shaped hole, to prove to ourselves that we are fully alive” #TimAdams #TheObserver

What’s not to like about the new Mary Poppins Returns? Songs, story, celebrities and stars. Even Dick van Dyke gets a reprise. Perhaps the tunes are a little less memorable but, hey...

Sobering words from #DallasWillard-

"Managers are at their best as “air traffic controllers” - tracking planes when they take off, judging how long to keep them circling, and knowing when to bring them down to land." – James Catford