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“I so often feel terrible that I am not offering the worship God is worthy to receive. My worship is so inadequate and so fickle. What I am learning is that God is receiving the worship that God is worthy to receive. The Father is receiving it from the Son; the Son is receiving it from the Father. And I am invited - I am drawn by the Spirit - into that altogether worthy worship! God is being glorified quite well, thank you. God being rightly glorified is not my burden. It is happening - and you and I are being moved by the Spirit to enter into it.”
― Darrell W. Johnson, Experiencing the Trinity

“The God who has claimed us for himself if Father, Son and Holy Spirit; not just Father, not just Son, not just Spirit. God is God FOR US - Father. God is God WITH US - Son. God is God IN US - Spirit.”
― Darrell W. Johnson, Experiencing the Trinity

“Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.”
― Darrell W. Johnson, Experiencing the Trinity

“I repeat: the pressure to apply is a modernist pressure, not a biblical pressure. William Willimon observes that most congregations love hearing preaching with this application emphasis. The only problem, he says, is that such preaching is not biblical preaching. The 'subtext' of so much of this must-apply preaching is, 'You are gods unto yourselves. Through this insight, this set of principles, this well applied idea, you can save yourselves by yourselves'.”
― Darrell W. Johnson, The Glory of Preaching: Participating in God's Transformation of the World

“If it is all up to me to live a consistently whole and healthy spiritual life, then the dry bones of my dry soul will not live. If it is all up to preachers like you and me to keep a local congregation alive in community and ministry, then we may as well close the doors right now. If it is all up to you, me and all the other preachers alive today to bring about a moral revolution breaking the chains that bind us, then our world is doomed.”
― Darrell W. Johnson, The Glory of Preaching: Participating in God's Transformation of the World

“So briefly let’s review the story of Jezebel of old.7”
― Darrell W. Johnson, Discipleship On The Edge: An Expository Journey Through the Book of Revelation

“But it’s worth it! For when we enter into the intellectual process by which the church arrived at the Trinity, we very soon discover that we are not thinking human thoughts about God; we are thinking God’s thoughts about God. “Trinity” is God’s way of being God.”
― Darrell W. Johnson, Experiencing the Trinity: Living in the Relationship at the Center of the Universe

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― Darrell W. Johnson, The Beatitudes: Living in Sync with the Reign of God