Coffee, Books and Kids
Yesterday, I was at my Thursday morning office, Lincoln Perk. For those who don't know, I have chosen to set aside Thursday morning for reading. I have also made a choice to do this reading at a local coffee shop instead of my office where I could be distracted to do other work. It also allows me to bump into people from the community and church. I was reading Mark Driscoll's book, Who Do You Think You Are? I will be posting more about this book in posts next week. But I was also watching some kids whose moms had gathered for coffee. They were having a great time going from chair to chair. It was not distracting, but fun to watch. As I was going back and forth between reading and watching, I read the following quote from the book by Karl Barth. Barth was asked what was the single most important theological discovery he'd made. Barth replied, "Jesus loves me. This I know, for the Bible tells me so." A few minutes later, one of th...