The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
We suffer to get well. We surrender to win. We die to live. We give it away to keep it. The gospel is totally counterintuitive, it isn’t what we think it should be.
Brene Brown • Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
“For most American Christians, the gospel is about getting my sins forgiven so I can go to heaven when I die.”
Dallas Willard • The King Jesus Gospel: The Original Good News Revisited
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
The only way to live in this painful existence is through faith. But to Kierkegaard, faith is not a mental conviction about doctrine, nor positive religious feelings, but a passionate commitment to God in the face of uncertainty. Faith is a risk (the "leap of faith"), an adventure that requires the denial of oneself. To choose faith is wh
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