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"To that end, we need to plot something of the historical territory—exactly who and what are we talking about? When we refer to ‘our Reformation heritage,’ we are focusing our attention mostly on the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers and their seventeenth-century post-Reformation successors." — Apr 17, 2026 05:32AM
"To that end, we need to plot something of the historical territory—exactly who and what are we talking about? When we refer to ‘our Reformation heritage,’ we are focusing our attention mostly on the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformers and their seventeenth-century post-Reformation successors." — Apr 17, 2026 05:32AM
“I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. --From the Introduction”
― Ender’s Game
― Ender’s Game
“Asking questions enables you to escape the charge, “You’re twisting my words.” A question is a request for clarification specifically so you don’t twist their words.”
― Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
― Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions
“Justification is by faith alone, but it isn’t a faith that is alone, for true faith produces good works. Still, good works are not the ground or cause of salvation; they are the fruit of one’s faith. The perfect righteousness of Christ is imputed to believers, so that their righteousness is not inherent but is theirs because they are united to Jesus Christ.76 At the final judgment God will declare publicly what was already the case in the lives of believers, i.e., that they are righteous by faith, and their works will verify (but will not be the foundation of) that declaration.”
― Faith Alone---The Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters
― Faith Alone---The Doctrine of Justification: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters
“The church itself is not made up of natural "friends." It is made up of natural enemies. What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything of the sort. Christians come together, not because they form a natural collocation, but because they have been saved by Jesus Christ and owe him a common allegiance. In the light of this common allegiance, in light of the fact that they have all been loved by Jesus himself, they commit themselves to doing what he says—and he commands them to love one another. In this light, they are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus’ sake.”
― Love in Hard Places
― Love in Hard Places
“What a glorious Savior he is! Once again consider Christ in his entire identity, life, and work. In his birth, he is the divine Son and Lord who chooses to become our Mediator in obedience to his Father’s will. In his life, as the incarnate Son, he is still the sovereign King who willingly and gladly chooses to die for us. In his death, he does not die as a victim or martyr but as one who is fully in control, choosing to die for us. By his death, he pays for our sin, destroys death, and defeats Satan by putting him under his feet in triumph. In his resurrection, which is inseparable from his life and death, the Father by the Spirit exalts the Son and inaugurates the glorious new covenant age of the new creation. From that posture of authority, the glorified and exalted Son pours out the Spirit, once again proof that he is Lord and Messiah/King. From that same posture of authority, the exalted and ascended Lord rules over his people, governs history, and will return in power to consummate all that he has begun in his first coming.”
― Christ Alone---The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters
― Christ Alone---The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior: What the Reformers Taught...and Why It Still Matters
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