Troy

“You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.”
― St. Augustine, Confessions

“Blasphemy is thus not a mere denial of God’s existence, properties, and providence, but instead attributing to him the opposite: to deem God to be unjust, cruel, or the like, to mock his assumed holiness and love, and to represent oneself as much holier, wiser, and just.”
― Herman Bavinck

“What many call secularization is not actually a loss of religiosity but a return to ancient paganism—a seeking of divine power in the world (or the self) rather than outside of it with the gods themselves considered as part of nature. In our secularized neo-pagan world, meaning is found in things immanent rather than transcendent. Ultimately, the context for mission in the twenty-first century is the same as it's been throughout the history of the holy Christian church: Because of Adam's sin, we live perennially in a dying world...The world we live in is marred by decay and death. But just as in Adam all shall die, so shall all in the Lord Jesus Christ be made alive (1 Corinthians 15:22). The word of God took root and grew in the pagan world of the first century, and it can and will make a difference in our own pagan time. The culture of the word always brings the life that is in Christ Jesus to this dying world (2 Corinthians 4:11).”
― Harold L. Senkbeil, The Culture of God's Word: Faithful Ministry in a Post-Christian Society

“The overwhelming glory of God, revealed in the gospel, is the glory of His grace. It is not just the transcendent power, wisdom, and righteousness of God that demand our worship, but, above all, His love and mercy. The adoring Church hymns praises that even the angels cannot sing, for only the Church has know that divine love that bore the doom of lost sinners and gave them sonship with the Beloved.”
― Edmund Clowney