Spencer

“Who is God? He is our Father. What has he done? He has loved us by sending his Son, Jesus, to die for our sins. Who are we? We are the dearly loved children of God—God’s family. If we believe this, what do we do? We love one another as brothers and sisters in the same way God has loved us.”
― Jeff Vanderstelt, Saturate: Being Disciples of Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life

“The crucifixion should have been the final proof that Jesus wasn’t God; the proof that he could not oppose the power of Rome, the proof that he was not the great “I AM.” And if Jesus had stayed dead, that proof would have been undeniable.” -Rebecca McLaughlin”
― Rebecca McLaughlin

“We need to lose the mental image of our pre-Christian state as a drowning person helplessly flailing about in the water, hoping upon hope that someone might throw us a life preserver. Outside of Christ we are, in fact, spiritual corpses rotting on the ocean floor among the silt and sludge.”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“To get the whole story of Jesus, we must be regularly reading and teaching the whole book—New Testament and Old, narrative, poetry, Gospels, apocalyptic, Epistles, Wisdom Literature, prophecy—all of it! All the parts work together, in God’s providence, to feed us fully on this one who comes and tells us that he is the living water and the bread of life.”
― Gloria Furman, Word-Filled Women's Ministry: Loving and Serving the Church