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Category Archives: Quotes
Quotes on Culture
Quotes on culture from Andy Crouch’s “Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling”: There is no such thing as “the Culture,” and any attempt to talk about “the Culture,” especially in terms of “transforming the Culture,” is misled and misleading. Real … Continue reading
On Repentance
From Kalistos Ware: To repent is to look, not downward at my own shortcomings, but upward at God’s love; not backward with self-reproach, but forward with trustfulness. It is to see, not what I have failed to be, but what … Continue reading
Quote: Brought to the Glory of God
The Christian gospel is not merely that Jesus died and rose again; and not merely that these events appease God’s wrath, forgive sin, and justify sinners; and not merely that this redemption gets us out of hell and into heaven; … Continue reading
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Quote: Jesus Went the Way of the Cross
From First Importance, a great daily reminder of the nature of the Gospel: As the captain of salvation, Jesus Christ in his earthly ministry marched from Sinai to Zion, leading captivity captive. Resisting the way of glory falsely promised by … Continue reading
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The Perfect Church Service
The perfect church service would be one were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God. — C.S. Lewis
God’s Story
From Eugene Peterson’s book “The Invitation”: “When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we’re being led not to see God in our stories but to see our stories in God’s. God is the … Continue reading
On Honor
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. — Thomas Carlyle
Ronald F. Thiemann on the Christian story
Christianity basically claims that the truth about God and the world is to be found in the story of the execution of a political prisoner at the hands of the Romans. This itinerant preacher who now becomes the crucified victim … Continue reading
Luther on the Cross
He deserves to be called a theologian…who comprehends the visible and manifest things of God, seen through suffering and the cross. The “back” and visible things of God are placed in opposition to the invisible, namely, his human nature, weakness, … Continue reading
Moltmann on the Cross
From Jurgen Moltmann’s “The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God”: The cross is at the center of the Trinity….No Trinity is conceivable without the Lamb, without the sacrifice of love, without the crucified Son. And from “The Crucified … Continue reading
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