Monday, November 9

Our only hope and fear

The tares of ruin grow and ripen. The sand runs low within the glass. Our days are numbered. ‘Repent or perish,’ says the Christ. The sign of Jonah is our need, Christ, crucified and risen! The God who kills and makes alive, our only hope and only fear!

— Geoffrey T. Bull
The City and the Sign
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1970), 110