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“Stepping back and connecting reconciliation to Gods story also helps us move away from dramatic visions of fixing the world, as if our job were to provide solutions to problems outside us. If Chris...”
“Good equippers do like Jesus did it: recruit twelve, graduate eleven, and focus on three.”
“I've got the baby here," Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus.”
“Jesus promises a life in which we increasingly have to stretch out our hands and be led into places where we would rather not go.”
“What single-minded, purposeful, compassionate obedience did it take for Jesus to walk through this world completely unrecognized for who he truly was? Even those dearest and closest to him did not ...”
“Matthew once said to me, after one of my more finely worded rants about stupid people who have the wrong opinions, "Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and othe...”
“There is absolutely no reward on earth for being a Christian. You get it only on payday in Heaven, not while you are still working for Jesus on earth.”
“As a spiritual leader, you are here to serve; not to be served. Stop robbing the poor. Jesus came to serve.”
“All of us, some frequently, feel undervalued and unseen. Yet, our deepest pains are lessened in that moment of recognition that Jesus...gets it. That his own feet have walked through this very pain...”
“Jesus came to give us life without leaving out any of life in the giving.”
“Let God grow in you. Hear his voice in your need. Let Jesus resurrect you right now, in this life, even before youre done dying. Let him put your spirit back in your hungry body.”
“People love to quote that Jesus is love, yet they neglect to mention that He's also King. If you love the King, you will obey Him.”
“How one in the modern world views Jesus's miraculous actions is irrelevant. All that can be known is how the people of his time viewed them. And therein lies the historical evidence. For while deba...”
“Jesus was surely not the first exorcist to walk the shores of the Sea of Galilee. In first-century Palestine, professional wonder worker was a vocation as well established as that of woodworker or ...”
“The very purpose of designing the Temple of Jerusalem as a series of ever more restrictive ingressions was to maintain the priestly monopoly over who can and cannot come into the presence of God an...”
“Pilate, as the histories reveal, was not one for trials. In his ten years as governor of Jerusalem, he had sent thousands upon thousands to the cross with a simple scratch of his reed pen on a slip...”
“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In the entirety of the Hebrew Bible there is not a single pass...”
“Whatever the response to loss and tragedy, the experience seems to boil down to one journey--searching for Jesus.”
“He speaks the words of a distant prophet as though He has written the words Himself.”
“Jesus was not SELFLESS. He did not live as if ONLY other people counted. He knew his value and worth. He had friends. He asked people to help him. At the same time Jesus was not SELFISH. He did not...”
