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When “in Christ” refers to church membership, to be found “in Christ” means you take your membership seriously—you participate as a good, vital, or engaged member. You’ve been given an access card by some invisible God, so the least you can do, if you really have faith, is participate and concede to the norms of the club (again, this is why sociolo
... See moreAndrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
God will not reveal what He is trying to produce in you unless you give Him a blank slate to work on and you can say from your heart, “No restrictions, Lord. Anything in my life, go for it, I’m Yours, period!” Bottom line: Until you are cooperating fully with God’s desire to transform you (chapter 2), He will not give wisdom in regard to what He is
... See moreJames MacDonald • Lord Change Me
the three disciplines (Perception, Action, and Will)
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
If you try to live without a philosophy of life, you will find yourself extemporizing your way through your days. As a result, your daily efforts are likely to be haphazard, and your life is likely to be misspent. What a waste!
William B. Irvine • The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher's Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient
(A major issue that conservatives even today have yet to solve is how, in opposing the reductions of the immanent frame, they can avoid the perception of being against justice and mercy and can support all humans flourishing.)
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
It is such divine synergy, people’s willingness to creatively work with the hand that life and sin and circumstance and God have dealt them that is our deepest life of prayer and devotion. This is “doing the will of God”!
Richard Rohr • Breathing Under Water : Spirituality and the Twelve Steps
Christians are simul justus et peccator—simultaneously perfectly righteous in Christ and in the Father’s eyes yet in ourselves very flawed and sinful. This leads to a security and humility that live together.
Timothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
Dallas Willard defined the kingdom of heaven this way: “Where what God wants done is done.”1 In other words, it is the realm where God rules and evil is powerless. Jesus announced that this kingdom was now “at hand,” meaning it is within our reach. The kingdom of the heavens has broken into our world, and a new way of life is now possible. In the S
... See moreBrian Conover • What If Jesus Was Serious?: A Visual Guide to the Teachings of Jesus We Love to Ignore
