His full name is J.R.R. Tolkien, but his good friend C.S. Lewis called him “Tollers.” Unlike Lewis, he was not a fan of allegory, and considered The Chronicles of Narnia to be quite ridiculous. He is known best for his trilogy The Lord of the Rings, which is based off an earlier work The Hobbit. He

“Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart.” The Apostle Paul, in 2 Corinthians 4:1, makes it clear that our sustaining grace for service is actually found in the the very message we proclaim. The premise for why we “do not lose heart” is that we have received “this

  “For then we would know the mind of God.” This is the final line from Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.” Hawking is one of many physicists throughout the history of science who has sought a unifying vision of reality. Scientists have searched for

Go, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play; Go, children of swift joy and tardy sorrow: And some are sung, and that was yesterday, And some unsung, and that may be to-morrow. Go forth; and if it be o’er stony way, Old joy can lend what newer grief must borrow: And it was sweet,

Broken in two, red eyes glaring, it pulls itself along, pursuing its victim, until at last it is crushed to fight no more. And yes, this is the final scene from the 1980s movie Terminator. While I’m not recommending the movie for consumption, the conclusion of the film provides a helpful illustration of the fleeting