Brian Cutting:  

fighting for." Tim Keller: "We are all exiles, always longing for home. We are always traveling, never arriving. The houses and families we actually inhabit are only inns along the way, but they aren't home. Home continues to evade us...In the beginning of the book of Genesis we learn the reason why all people feel like exiles, like we aren't really home. We are told that we were created to live in the garden of God. That was the world we were built for, a place in which there was no parting from love, no decay or disease. It was all these things because it was life before the face of God, in His presence...That was our original home, the true country we were made for." "We habitually and instinctively look to other things besides God and His grace as our justification, hope, significance, and security. We believe the gospel at one level, but at deeper levels we do not. Human approval, professional success, power and influence, family and clan identity - all of these things serve as our heart's 'functional trust' rather than what Christ has done, and as a result we continue to be driven to a great degree by fear, anger, and a lack of self-control. You cannot change such things through mere will power, through learning Biblical principles and trying to carry them out. We can only change permanently as we take the gospel more deeply into our understanding and into our hearts. We must feed on the gospel, as it were, digesting it and making it part of ourselves. That is how we grow."". More about Brian:"Grew up on a farm Part of a Quartet in college "Image" that recorded an album, sang at the Valley Forge Music Center and sang some of our song in Russian in the Ukraine Been on missions trips to England and twice to the Ukraine, took groups of teens to Inner City Providence, R.I. and the woods of a Wisconsin Indian reservation. Currently a pastor of the Unatego Community Church. I do some substitute teaching about once a week (any grade).".