Overflow Cafe Ministries

10/18/2026

“Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”
- C.S. Lewis

10/17/2026

If the biblical story does not control our thinking, then we will be swept into the story that the world tells about itself.
- Lesslie Newbigin

10/16/2026

"Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man; we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England as shall never be put out"
- Bp. Hugh Lattimer to Bp. Nicholas Ridley at their martydom in England this 16th day of October in 1555. They were burned at the stake.

10/16/2026

“If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.”
- C.S. Lewis

10/15/2026

The deepest motive for mission is simply the desire to be with Jesus where he is, on the frontier between the reign of God and the usurped dominion of the devil.
-Lesslie Newbigin

10/15/2026

It is the Word made flesh that is the gospel. The deed without the word is dumb, and the word without the deed is empty.
- Lesslie Newbigin

10/14/2026

We live in a culture that knows fear. Every day, it seems, we know fear better, and fall deeper in love with “fightings without, fears within” (2Cor.7:5). Jesus calls us to know and love not fear but know and love truth–a truth that frees from fear, a love that “casts out fear” (1John4:18).
- Leonard Sweet

10/14/2026

10/14/2026

Jesus rises from his knees and calls his disciples. “Rise, let us be going,” he says, and goes before them—to the Cross. There is the pattern of leadership for the church.
- Lesslie Newbigin

10/09/2026

Separation of church from mission is theologically indefensible.
- Lesslie Newbigin