Friendship, hospitality, and fellowship; eating together; the joys and duties of Christian company.
- Smalltalk is Counsel David Powlison
When I use the word counseling I don’t mean a Ph.D. in psychotherapy in an office. I mean the way the Bible talks about counseling, which is the effect of the tongue, and …
- Unmarried in the Church Christian Reformed Church Study Committee
The church is required to be the body of Christ in which the unmarried may find fulfillment as persons in the fellowship and companionship of the congregation of …
- Come Soon! John Newton
…come up as soon as possible; and may the Lord bless you upon the road, and come himself with you. … I long for the time. How snugly shall we sit and smoke our pipes, …
- Easy to Love in Memory John Updike
It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
- A Modest Cottage with Books Thomas Jefferson
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than …
- A House of Rest in a Weary World J. Gresham Machen
Is there no place where two or three can gather in Jesus name, … to forget human pride, to forget the passions of war, to forget the puzzling problems of industrial …
- Lincoln’s Best Friend Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
- Eating and Christian Friendship Joel Beeke, Michael Haykin
Friends multiply their joys by sharing them. One of the most basic ways is by eating together. Don’t overspiritualize Christian friendship; two of its most important …
- Qualifictions for Deacons George C. Fuller
If all there is to being a deacon revolves around flowers and fruit baskets and the quick drop off and pick up of sermon tapes, these characteristics do not have special …
- All Christians are Brethren Richard Sibbes
All Christians are brethren. The greatest men in the world, the mountains, if they be Christians, they are brethren to the lowest. And it fills up the valleys. The …
- Church Fellowship is Not Optional Edmund Clowney
The church is not just a religious association formed by saved individuals to give united expression to their faith. Rather, the church is more a people than Israel was …
- Sorrows and Joys of One Another Matthew Henry
True love will interest us in the sorrows and joys of one another, and teach us to make them our own.
- DeYoung on Hospitality Kevin DeYoung
Opening our homes takes time, but it doesn’t have to take over our lives. Christian hospitality has much more to do with good relationships than with good food. There is …
- Tolkien on Lewis J.R.R. Tolkien
C.S.L. of course had some oddities and could sometimes be irritating.
- Illusion of Liberal Ideology Peter Berger
It is one of the more facetious illusions of liberal ideology that people will like each other better by getting to know each other.
- My Happiest Hours C. S. Lewis
My happiest hours are spent sitting up to the small hours in someone’s college room talking nonsense, poetry, theology, metaphysics over beer, tea and pipes. There’s no …
- Small Talk and the Heart David Powlison
Something as innocuous, as seemingly meaningless, careless, casual as small talk, when you take it apart, bears a freight of profound messages that every word you say and …
- An Astonishing Dispensation John Owen
And truly, for sinners to have fellowship with God, the infinitely holy God, is an astonishing dispensation.
- C. S. Lewis on Friendship C. S. Lewis
Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I …
- Job’s Friends Joel Beeke
The best thing Job’s friends did was sit with him, weep with him, mourn with him, and keep silence with him for seven days.
- Beer and Reformation Carl Trueman
Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on …
- Is There No Place? J. Gresham Machen
Is there no place where two or three can gather in Jesus name, . . . to forget human pride, to forget the passions of war, to forget the puzzling problems of industrial …
- My Greatest Friend Isaac Newton
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
- Book I Ain't Read Abraham Lincoln
My best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.