Letters to a Future Saint: Foundations of Faith for the Spiritually Hungry
The reason for our confusion is that we usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a “moral” for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right.
Timothy Keller • Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters
Christ clarifies and specifies the nature, aim, and trustworthiness of all God’s dealings with us because Christ is where those dealings with us come to ultimate fruition.
Kathryn Tanner • Christ the Key (Current Issues in Theology Book 7)
It introduces the idea that the acceptance of the experience of love, ofthe experience of the other, of the gaze raised towards the other, contributes to this supreme love that is both the love we owe to God and the love that God brings to us. And, of course, that is a stroke of genius! Christianity has managed to capture on behalf of its Church –
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FEAR OF GOD BUT NOTHING ELSE Remember one is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen. And don’t say God has proved that He can make you fear poverty, illness, etc. I am sure God never teaches us the fear of anything but Himself. As the only two good lines in one of our bad hymns says “Fea
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