We need an arresting vision of holiness that evaporates the thin religiosity which tends to get passed off as faith.
We live in a world consumed with and broken by the love of power. We are inheriting a kingdom being established on and built up by the power of love.
Training in godliness can’t be reduced to reading a bunch of things other people are saying about God and his Word.
Though the outside circumstances may not change today or tomorrow or ever, he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
“There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them too closely to disown themselves.”
The first half of the gospel is the revelation that in Jesus Christ we are rescued from the gravity of sin, death, and darkness and delivered into the gravity of love, life, and light.
There are only two laws: The law of sin and death, and the law of the Spirit who gives life.
We want to manage the symptoms—our sins. God deals with the sickness—our sin.
We want to become so immersed in these four eye witness accounts to Jesus that we could begin to tell the story ourselves frontwards and backwards.
The One who was full made himself empty so we who are empty could be made full.
The gospel is not first a truth to be accepted. The gospel is an invitation to a meet the one true and living God in the person of Jesus Christ.
The work of the Lord is not something we do “for the Lord.” It is something the Lord does through us for others and he does it as we give ourselves to him.
