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“Imagination pointed toward truth but could not disclose it directly.”
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom," says Paul. And we are most in line with the Spirit, most faithfully obedient, when instead of trying to manipulate people into faith, we simply l...”
“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
“The sad reality is that there are many Christians who are saved, heaven bound, and hell proofed who do not care about the souls of the lost. What a beautiful contrast our Lord Jesus Christ is! His ...”
“Religious laws, in all the major religious traditions, have both a letter and a spirit. As I understand the words and example of Jesus, the spirit of the law is all-important whereas the letter, wh...”
“sexuality isnt ancillary to Christianity, in the way some other cultural or political issues are. Marriage and sex point, the Bible says, to a picture of the gospel itself, the union of Christ and ...”
“What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?”
“Regardless of whether people have free will, human flourishing requires that they live in an environment in which they are treated as if they did.”
“In an era of mass media, it is easy to believe that the more eyeballs, the more impact. But radio, television, and tracts accounted for a combined total of less than one-half of 1% of the Busters w...”
“The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.”
“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with Gods help. Besides the fact that Scripture nev...”
“The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.”
“What price are you willing to pay to see your church actively engaged in evangelism? Price? What do you mean by price? There is a cost for everything. One of the causes for evangelistic entropy is ...”
“The significant thing about Edwards is the way he enters into the tradition, infuses it with his personality and makes it live. The vitality of his thought gives to its product the value of unique ...”
“The Christian story, centered as it is on the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, is the only story for making sense of desire and loss.”
“We do some of our best work in evangelism when we make sure people understand the wrath of God against them, that their plight is desperate because God is angry. The problem of unreached and unenga...”
“We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.”
“Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.”
“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”
“Very small errors in our understanding of the Gospel can result in very big problems.”
