Spencer

“Are we called to be like Noah? Yes. Are we called to be like the Good Samaritan? Yes. But not simply because they are positive examples to inspire us to righteousness. These stories point us to Christ.”
― Jen Wilkin, Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds

“A motley crew of racist, sin-sick, spiritual zombies is now one body under Christ. And individually they are new creations walking in humility, gentleness, and patience”
― Gloria Furman, Alive in Him: How Being Embraced by the Love of Christ Changes Everything

“We need assurance that there is a God who is sovereignly ruling over our journeys and will one day put everything right.”
― Elyse M. Fitzpatrick, Home: How Heaven & the New Earth Satisfy Our Deepest Longings

“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