Comments on: The Power of Love and the Love of Power (Shakespeare: Part II)

By: Lajos

Lajos — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 11:52:12 +0000

Dear Phillip,
actually, we are sitting in our English class (we are german people) and we have to read your text. Was it an accident?

By: ofelia R claudio

ofelia R claudio — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 03:28:37 +0000

WOW!!! I love how you wrote this, Philip! Wish I could say more, but I’m not a wrier like you.

I met you personally at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach. Shook your hand. Then you were abruptly summoned back to the sanctuary for the next service.

I love reading your books and your blogs which I just NOW discovered. After watching a video posted by faithlovelead titled His Story (in 4 parts), I Googled you and found your website! Great discovery! God bless you!

By: Parisa

Parisa — Sun, 24 Oct 2021 11:09:42 +0000

Nice :0

By: Lenore

Lenore — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 04:01:20 +0000

I’m confused. Why are we talking about politics? The Bible teaches us about some terrible kings who ruled Gods people. They didn’t slip by God. Not to worry. The leader we all want is coming. Jesus will be here soon and will rule forever. And we won’t even have to go to the polls or listen to debates. Have faith. God has this.

By: Roy Stafford

Roy Stafford — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 15:00:22 +0000

Dear Phillip
I am writing to you in this time of extreme anxiety and fear for all of the world and this nation from the coronovirus. You are one of the people in my life that has had a great influence. I and my wife have read all of your books. We are using one of your books in a bible study group. Since 2016 and the election of this horrible president and his administration it has been one disaster after another in his governance. Now an ultimate peril is engulfing all of our country and the world. My wife and I are so disapointed in the evangelical community that is continuing to support this president, and morality has taken a backseat to greed and egotism. This country is in great peril and we need a leader like Lincoln or FDR and instead we have the polar opposite. This world crisis has stalled the extremly important environmental degradation that threatens all of life on this planet. Now demonstrations by concerned people all over the world are unlikely due to quarantine.
What is motivating me to write this letter to you is something that has happened to me recently. I have read two columns recently in the Atlantic magazine by Peter Wehner. One is on the failed presidency titled: “The Trump Presidency is Over” dated March 13, 2020. The most recent column is dated: March 17, 2020 and is titled “NIH Director: We’re on an Exponential Curve” it is an interview with Francis Collins eminent scientist and head of the NIH. He relates the status of this pandemic and where we are as a nation in this war with coronovirus. In the second half of this column by Peter Wehner in the Atlantic magazine, Francis Collins talks about his conversion from atheism to becoming a Christian. I found this very moving. To the extent of getting down on my knees at my bedside and asking God to forgive my lack of trust and faith. I am a Christian and I have tried to witness to my faith through my paintings as a lifelong artist. I, as all of us right now are gripped by fear and anxiety from this pandemic engulfing the world. Francis Collins quotes a bible verse that changed his life while he was reading C.S. Lewis. Lewis at one point in his conversion came to see others as angels around him. The verse that changed Francis Collins the imminent scientist, to beleiving in God was: “My grace is sufficient for you, because My strength is made perfect in your weakness.” This brought me to tears as I knew this is what I will need to do now and reach out to everyone I know and say I have found it’s O.K. and my fear is lessened and I know that God’s love will surmount all fears. Be still my soul.
Phillip, because I so very highly respect all you stand for and all you have said in your writings, I beseech you to confront this lack of love and morality in this country and its elected greed filled, deluded conservatives in the Christian community, and this administration, and most of all this terrible president. Your voice as Peter Wehner’s and Francis Collins’s have shown, will have tremendous weight in this time of fear and anxiety.
My wife and I are in our 80’s and as of this last week we are in isolation and leaving home only for essential things to live. My greatest hope is voices like yours and others can bring change and hope and faith in our creator back to this country.

By: Marty Bowie

Marty Bowie — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 02:34:19 +0000

Masterful recapitulation of a literary master, Philip!

By: Rev. Bill Evans

Rev. Bill Evans — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:39:13 +0000

You are always a most remarkable writer, Phillip, and I enjoy every time you widen my perspective. This mingling of Shakespeare and our modern situations is done beautifully. Thank you for being a most trusted brother in Jesus.

By: Jan Lindell

Jan Lindell — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 20:35:38 +0000

Thank you for your post.
Watching the US from abroad, I have recently had some serious thoughts on the words of Jesus in Matthew 12:25, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city og house divided against itself will stand.” I sincerely hope and pray that this will not be the fate of your great country, but the present division, distrust and downright hatred are such discouraging features.

By: David Player

David Player — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 17:11:33 +0000

Philip you have penetrating insights, clear vision, and extraordinary articulation. Keep shining the Christ light for our troubled world my dear brother.

By: Philip Yancey

Philip Yancey — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 15:16:15 +0000

In reply to María Alejandra Rodriguez. The post on Shakespeare is not from a book, just one I wrote for Facebook. --Philip