Tuesday, April 15, 2008

'God Himself Could Not Sink This Ship' and other stuff



It was April 15th 1912...

"Titanic was built with a double bottom but not a double hull. It had watertight bulkheads, but they didn't all go all the way to the top of the hull. These omissions doomed the ship after a 200-foot gash was torn in its starboard side below the waterline by a spur projecting from the iceberg. Or perhaps, new research suggests, the gash was not that big, but substandard rivets caused the Titanic's hull plates to buckle."

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It is a beautiful planet...




Lifeboat Theology vs. Ark Theology (Part 3 of 5 by Rich Nathan)

"D.L. Moody, the great 19th-century evangelist, described his calling and said that he essentially understood the world as being like an ocean liner that hit an iceberg. God had said to him, "Moody, it is your job to pull as many drowning people out of the water into lifeboats as you can."


2 comments:

Doorman-Priest said...

It's also the first mission paradigm as practiced by the early church. If you stay still long enough.........

Unknown said...

DP,

You got my interest here...

Can you unpack this thought a bit more for me?

Thanks,
iggy