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Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are le...more

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The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mammon, Aphrodite and the rest. This is the point tha...more

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If, therefore, those called to office and leadership roles in the church remain content merely to organize and manage the internal affairs of the chur...more

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We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping around in them, but he gradually builds out and g...more

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Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation resisted may ...more

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What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits which anticipate the ultimate future.

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The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, if it’s the real Jesus you’re looking at. Plenty o...more

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Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate presence.

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Author says writing about Jesus is difficult because it is like writing about a friend "who is still liable to surprise us.

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The Bible is the story so far in the true novel that God is still writing.

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The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for its work in the world, and that serious ...more

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The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says that by reading a ...more

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Layer upon layer it comes, dense and rich within the texts, echo upon echo, allusion and resonance tumbling over one another, so that for those with e...more

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Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

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Many in the church have turned their back on serious study, and have embraced an anti-intellectualism which refuses to learn anything from scholarship...more