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Jesus preached only one sermon in his lifetime — the Sermon on the Mount — and it began with the word blessed. Blessed is from the Old English word bledsian or the Proto-Germanic word blodison. Both these words come from the root word blod,
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“Theology has suffered - among evangelicals as well as elsewhere - from an undue desire for clarity and control, something to which the often abstract and rarefied distinctions of Scholastic theology have contributed.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“At the nation’s top 130 colleges and universities, only 9 percent of first-year students are from the bottom half of the nation’s household income distribution, while 91 percent are from families in the top half of the income range.”
― Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
― Educating All God's Children: What Christians Can--and Should--Do to Improve Public Education for Low-Income Kids
“Influence doesn’t happen by extracting ourselves from the world for the sake of our values, but by bringing our values into the culture.”
― The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
― The Tangible Kingdom: Creating Incarnational Community
“Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“The central paschal event - Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension - is something Christians participate in: God "made us alive with Christ," Paul insists (Eph. 2:5). He "raised us up with Christ" (Eph. 2:6; Col. 3:1). The result of this sharing in Christ is
that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
that believers participate in heavenly realities. We are seated with Christ "in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:6; Eph. 1:3).”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
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