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C. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
In his essay, “The Weight of Glory,” C. S. Lewis writes: “It would seem that our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is mean
... See moreErik Rees • S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
And as long as a man is thinking of God as an examiner who has set him a sort of paper to do, or as the opposite party in a sort of bargain—as long as he is thinking of claims and counter-claims between himself and God—he is not yet in the right relation to Him. He is misunderstanding what he is and what God is. And he cannot get into the right rel
... See moreC. S. Lewis • The C. S. Lewis Bible: For Reading, Reflection, and Inspiration
God commands, “Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too.”
Rick Warren • The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?
The act of ministry brings forth ontological union at the divine and human level; it is the embodied and lived story of cross to resurrection.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Jesus made in Matthew 6:25–34. In that passage Jesus directly addressed the topic of worry, telling us what to do about it and why. Like Holmes, Jesus said we need to take a good look around us and observe or think deeply about the meaning behind what we see. This is what Jesus told us to ponder if we want to be free from worry: For this reason I s
... See moreJohn F. MacArthur Jr. • Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (John Macarthur Study)
The Bible has one theme—redemption. • The Bible has one hero—the Lord Jesus. • The Bible has one villain—the devil. • The Bible has one purpose—the glory of God!
Steve Rogers • What Every Christian Ought to Know
As Hauerwas puts it, “Aquinas was right that only God is pure act. Only in God are existence and essence one. Accordingly, our language about God is necessarily analogical, which means that theology has the task of helping the church not say more about God than needs to be said.” Hannah’s Child, 52.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
Anyone who in these hymns encounters the passion of Christ, and experiences in them the pain of the love of God for himself, knows that he himself is something different from what sorrow and the fear of death, the yoke of slavery and his masters have made and seek to make of him.