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Charles Spurgeon identified the first sign of God’s call to the ministry as “an intense, all-absorbing desire for the work.” Those called by God sense a growing compulsion to preach and teach the word, and to minister to the people of God.
“At its most basic, Christianity is about a Father and his children.”
― Rooted: the Apostles' Creed
― Rooted: the Apostles' Creed
“When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. ”
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“The harlots who have no imagined righteousness to protect will be dancing into the Kingdom while you have your alleged virtue burned out of you!”
― A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
― A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
“To say to an Orthodox Jew, “I would like to have dinner with you,” is understood as “I would like to enter into friendship with you.” Even today, members of Orthodox Jewry will share a donut and a cup of coffee with you, but when they extend a dinner invitation, they are saying, “Come to my mikdash me-at, my miniature sanctuary, my dining-room table, and we will celebrate the most beautiful experience that life affords—friendship.” That is what Zacchaeus heard when Jesus called him down from the sycamore tree,”
― A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
― A Glimpse of Jesus: The Stranger to Self-Hatred
“For many of us, the effects of this fallen world seem like distant theological concepts that carry little weight in everyday life. As a result, we live with expectations befitting a pre-fall Eden, rather than a sin-broken Earth. We expect to live healthy, fulfilled lives. We expect to have marriages in which we perfectly understand and communicate with our spouses. We expect to become pregnant easily, carry our babies full-term, and deliver them in perfect health. Our hearts yearn for the creation to function as God intended it to, and thus we don’t naturally expect pain, discord, or death. Yet, this is exactly the inescapable inheritance we’ve received from our first parents.”
― Inheritance of Tears: Trusting the Lord of Life When Death Visits the Womb
― Inheritance of Tears: Trusting the Lord of Life When Death Visits the Womb
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