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The radical hermeneutic of suspicion that characterizes all of post-modernity is essentially nihilis...

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N.T. WrightThe Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

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Reinhold NiebuhrLeaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic

God created through love and for love. God did not create anything except love itself, and the means...

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The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rathe...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ...

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The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not wh...

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Brennan ManningThe Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled

In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

God did not make this person as I would have made him. He did not give him to me as a brother for me...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

The Christian, however, must bear the burden of a brother. He must suffer and endure the brother. It...

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Dietrich BonhoefferLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Even though Christ Himself would not deliver us from the power of the Totalitarian State, as He did ...

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Fulton J. SheenCharacters of the Passion: Lessons on Faith and Trust

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of...

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Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo...

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A dying man asked a dying man for eternal life; a man without possessions asked a poor man for a Kin...

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It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man...

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The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punish...

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If, in his pride, he considers God as a challenge, he will deny Him; and if God becomes man and ther...

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The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ wit...

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The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is th...

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Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi...

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To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful m...

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The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the ca...

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The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the ...

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The modern world, which denies personal guilt and admits only social crimes, which has no place for ...

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The humble, simple souls, who are little enough to see the bigness of God in the littleness of a Bab...

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The first thing the Cross does is cross out the world's word by a Wholly-Other Word, a Word that the...

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It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

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Ah, how many Marahs have been sweetened by a simple, satisfying glimpse of the Tree and the Love whi...

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Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his ...

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God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and e...

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Karl BarthThe Humanity of God