Following dead authors on amazon
Do you follow any writers on amazon? When you do, amazon sends you email alerts when an author releases a new book. Pretty cool. So why would I follow a dead author? Because their works are almost always deeper and richer in theology than any living author. No, they cannot write any "new" works, obviously! But there are publishers, God bless them, who still compile their writings, sermons, what have you, and publish them for us. Yes, I also read current works. But I've noticed that writers nowadays make it mor about "me." Am "I" reaching my destiny? Are "we" reaching our full potential? I don't see that sort of reasoning anywhere in the Bible. Not in the Old Testament or the New. Because it's not about us, folks. I defy you to find the word "potential" in the Bible. You won't. Not in any translation. I checked. Jesus was not a philisopher telling us to "be all we can be." His message was totally