To be transformed into the image of God’s Son and to be holy as God is holy are essentially synonymous expressions.
“According to Christian belief, Jesus is our Saviour, not by virtue of what He said, not even by virtue of what He was, but by what He did. He is our Saviour, not because He has inspired us to live the same kind of life that He lived, but because He took upon Himself the dreadful guilt of our sins and bore it instead of us on the cross. Such is the Christian conception of the Cross of Christ.”
― Christianity and Liberalism
― Christianity and Liberalism
“the evangelical Christian is not true to his profession if he leaves his Christianity behind him on Monday morning.”
― Christianity and Liberalism
― Christianity and Liberalism
“The very basis of the religion of Jesus was a triumphant belief in the real existence of a personal God.
And without that belief no type of religion can rightly appeal to Jesus to-day. Jesus was a theist, and rational theism is at the basis of Christianity.”
― Christianity and Liberalism
And without that belief no type of religion can rightly appeal to Jesus to-day. Jesus was a theist, and rational theism is at the basis of Christianity.”
― Christianity and Liberalism
“God does not simply work in spite of our weakness, but because of it. He says that his saving power does not work when we are strong or think we are strong—but rather, when we are weak, and know we are.”
― Judges For You
― Judges For You
“God sees as clearly in the dark as in the day; he knows what he is doing and where he is going. He can even weave the dark threads of man’s evil deeds, tragedies, and disasters into his purposes and use them for his glory.”
― The Dawn of Redeeming Grace: Daily Devotions for Advent
― The Dawn of Redeeming Grace: Daily Devotions for Advent
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