Jesus was the only one that ever raised the dead and he shouldn’t have done it. He’s thrown everything off balance. If he did what he said, then it’s nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow him, and if he didn’t, then it’s nothing for you to do but enjoy the [...]
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Flannery O’Connor
Posted in Atheism, Autonomy, Belief, Death, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Resurrection on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Donald Miller
Posted in Brokenness, Gospel, Identity, Jesus Christ on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
But if the gospel of Jesus is relational; that is, if our brokenness will be fixed, not by our understanding of theology, but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy which only heaven knows… Perhaps this is what the apostles stumbled upon. (Donald Miller, Searching for God [...]
Blaise Pascal
Posted in Belief, Exclusivity, Experience, God, Gospel, Heart, Image of God, Jesus Christ, Worship on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus (Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist [1623-1662])
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Christian Life, Discipleship, Experience, Faith, Gospel, Humanity, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, Story on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What happens here [in Mark’s Gospel] is that we are invited into becoming full participants in the story of Jesus and shown how to become such participants. We are not simply told that Jesus is the Son of God; we not only become beneficiaries of his atonement; we are invited to die his death and [...]
Thomas Howard
Posted in Church, Community, Discipleship, Gospel, Liturgy, Peace, Relationships, Worship on April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
…we proclaim together our citizenship in that joyful realm known as the Kingdom of Heaven, where pride, cruelty, greed, and all the things that wreck our fellowship with each other are forever banished, and where the citizens always fervently and joyfully offer each other ‘the peace of the Lord.’ This is what sanctity (‘sainthood’) is [...]
St. Gregory of Nyssa
Posted in Baptism, Easter, Gospel, Imagination, Resurrection, Sacraments on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It is necessary for us to undergo, by means of water, this preparatory rehearsal of the grace of resurrection, so that we may realize that it is as easy for us to rise again from death as to be baptized with water. (St. Gregory of Nyssa, Late 4th c. Bishop)
Eugene Peterson
Posted in Community, Gospel on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the immediate changes that the gospel makes is grammatical: we instead of I; our instead of my; us instead of me. (Eugene Peterson, Reversed Thunder)
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