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Part of what it means to be a Christian is to be filled with a desire to please God. He is our Father, and we want to live in his pleasure. But what pleases God? Is it seeing us better ourselves, watching us pull ourselves up by the bootstraps
God’s plan to rescue people from the slavery and ruin of sin is not a game of carrots and sticks. He has no interest in reforming our broken flesh into a more disciplined version of itself. Instead, he gives us his Son. The gift of Jesus is a g
“The paradox is that God must destroy in us all illusions of righteousness before he can make us righteous.”— Martin LutherThere are objective aspects to our faith and there are subjective aspects to our faith. It is bo
“Grace is when God is a source of wholeness, which makes up for my failings. ... It’s God saying, ‘I love the world too much to let your sin define you and be the final word. I am a God who makes all things new.’”— Nadia
“The primary gift we receive in salvation is not this or that benefit; it is Jesus Christ in the fullness of his saving person.”— Marcus JohnsonAll people have gone our own way and wandered off into darkness. God's resc
“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only li
“Now, the outward works of love are very great, as when we place our goods in the service of another. But the greatest is this, that I surrender my own righteousness and make it serve for the sins of my neighbor. For, outwardly to
“We must humbly and willingly live in intentionally-intrusive, Christ-centered, grace-driven, redemptive community.”— Paul TrippLife is hard. With the threat of nuclear war looming over our heads and needing to wait til
“If you aim for real flourishing, there is nowhere more dangerous.” ”— Andy CrouchWhen David was king in ancient Israel, the kingdom flourished. Enemies folded under his military leadership. And wealth soared. David rec
“Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don’t talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.”— Jean VanierIs Jesus alive in our church communit
“In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, ‘That is mine!’””— Abraham KuyperTo walk in our own strength is to live in the dark, a
“To make bread or love, to dig in the earth, to feed an animal or cook for a stranger—these activities require no extensive commentary, no lucid theology. All they require is someone willing to bend, reach, chop, stir. Most of thes
“For years I had instructed students on the different aspects of the spiritual life, trying to help them see the importance of living it. But had I, myself, really ever dared to step into the center, kneel down, and let myself be h
“There is no greater truth than this, that ‘we can do nothing of ourselves,’ yet nothing but our own experience can effectually teach it to us. Indeed, we are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.&#
“Faith is a living, daring confidence on God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it a thousand times.”— Martin LutherGod gave his law to a chosen people, the descendants of Abraham, to re
“The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.”— Thomas MertonGod created a good world and very good people. All the m
“We lie, cheat, and cut ethical corners quite often when we think we can get away with it, and then we use our moral thinking to manage our reputations and justify ourselves to others.”— Jonathan HaidtThe Gospel of Jesu
“My feeling about people in whose conversion I have been allowed to play a part is always mixed with awe and even fear: such as a boy might feel on first being allowed to fire a rifle. The disproportion between his puny finger on t
“How did a tiny and obscure messianic movement from the edge of the Roman Empire dislodge classical paganism and become the dominant faith of Western civilization? Although this is the only question, it requires many answers.”
“Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.”— Brennan ManningWe cannot know who we are apart from relationships. There is no such thing as an independent pe
“We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”— Dietrich BonHoefferOur God is a compassionate God. We know this only because he has entered o
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”— Jane AustenJesus spoke as one with authority, and his miraculous acts of healing validated that authority. But the greatest exercise o
“Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.”— Oswald ChambersOur country is divided. Rage and fear abound. And people line up across these divisions convinced of their righteous position. Are we convi
“Man by the Fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by th
“Christ’s way is first to wound, then to heal. No sound, whole soul shall ever enter into heaven.”— Richard SibbesEvery person experiences trauma at some point in life. And when this trauma takes place in a context of h
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