Rusty Graves

“Gospel is the announcement of who God insists you are. You’re”
― Rob Bell, What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

“What I longed for was something that went deeper than pious ideas on morality or intellectually stimulating thoughts about the meaning of human existence, as good as these were. I wanted something that actualized the pattern of being in Christ. I wanted something that worked in my life, something that brought a realistic spirituality into being. I wanted something that ordered my life into the pattern of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and coming again.”
― Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time (Ancient-Future): Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year

“Often in our world, things are easy, and we have a tendency to look to our own self-sufficiency. We don’t honestly look to God as the source of our survival, and perhaps that’s why our prayers are weak. The farmer in the field in Israel didn’t have the luxury of self-sufficiency; his life depended upon God—and so does ours”
― Marc Turnage, Windows into the Bible: Cultural and Historical Insights from the Bible for Modern Readers

“Worship and preaching that follow a particular book of the Bible is called Lectio Continua.”
― Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Time (Ancient-Future): Forming Spirituality through the Christian Year