Saved by Jonathan Simcoe
Amyraut on the Mercy of God
These acts of mercy, love, and compassion are not magical but hypostatic, and they are hypostatic because they gift the one ministered to with the new narrative arc of Jesus himself.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
We have made the bitterness of the cross, the revelation of God in the cross of Jesus Christ, tolerable to ourselves by learning to understand it as a necessity for the process of salvation . . . As a result the cross loses its arbitrary and incomprehensible character.[21]
Jurgen Moltmann • The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition
Martin Luther was asked what he contributed to his salvation, he replied, “Sin and resistance.” God Himself has done all that He requires of us. May we learn how to rest in Him, because He’s where the joy is!
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
there’s no reason to let Paul win the day and reject James. Both views—that faith is a way of life and a gift from God (Paul) and that faith includes believing some truths and must be supplemented by our effort (James)—may be true when interpreted truly.