Suffering, rejection, and death. These are what the Son of God will subject himself to. These are divine things.
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“Be opened.” Jesus says this not only to the deaf man but also to the disciples, who have not been able to hear what Jesus has been trying to teach them about grace...
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Liberty is not about freedom from something—restraints or restrictions—but freedom for something—namely, our neighbor.
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Elijah can flee into the furthest reaches of an arid wasteland, but even there the voice of the Lord will call him and the hand of the Lord will uphold him.
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As the bread of life, Jesus satisfies the universal hunger and thirst to be known, to be forgiven, to be loved, and to belong.
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Jesus utterly rejects all offers of worldly power. He will not be Caesar, however much we want him to be. He would literally rather die,
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The power of the cross is the power to create community where before there was only mistrust and misunderstanding.
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Even as sin and death appear triumphant in the present, the kingdom of God is already breaking upon the world.
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Even when there is profound resistance to the Gospel, the Holy Spirit is still at work.
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Despite all opposition and all attempts at holding it back, the kingdom of God will continue to break in upon the world, and lives will continue to be transformed as a result.
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To trust in God is to pray, to pray is to hope, and to hope is to live as though our hope has already been fulfilled…because it has.
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The places in our lives where we experience brokenness are the very places in which God is actively at work.
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What to the religious authorities appeared demonic, and what to Jesus’ own family was cause to fear for his sanity, was nothing less than God’s crazy love.
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Suffering and death are not signs of God’s absence but rather means through which God speaks, for God is no stranger to suffering or to death.
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To live according to the flesh is to labor under the expectation that we can climb our way up to God by doing things that God approves of.
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Evangelism is simply sharing how God has moved in your life. We all have a story to share.
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The Gospel of Jesus Christ is wonderfully weird, especially when set against the ways of the world.
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To abide in the love of Jesus is simply to trust that we are who Jesus says that we are—his friends.
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It’s only the forgiveness of sins that we’ve received through Jesus Christ that has dragged us into God’s fold and made us insiders.
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The resurrection of Jesus from the dead means that in the eyes of God none of us are defined by our worst selves.
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