G.K. Chesterton once quipped, “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed.” Other nations find their identity and cohesion in ethnicity, or geography, or partisan ideology, or cultural tradition, he argued. But
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“In other words, the first move in nazifying Christianity involved tearing up the Old Testament (three quarters of the Bible), followed by half of the New Testament (the letters of Paul). That left them, essentially, with the biographies of one “Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1).”
― The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
― The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality
“Keller seems to have become overanxious to please the current culture and sound trendy.50 His book is a good example of what happens when well-meaning evangelicals fail to clearly define justice and righteousness in terms of obedience to the law of God and instead import present cultural fads into their interpretative exercise: they end up with a hybrid abstraction that in the name of being biblical, reads humanistic views of justice onto Christianity.”
― The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society
― The Mission of God: A Manifesto of Hope for Society
“All of God’s chosen will be in the fold in the final day, but he uses prayer to get them there. God doesn’t only elect men; he elects means. And one of those means is prayer.1”
― Prayer Changes Things : Curing Timid Piety
― Prayer Changes Things : Curing Timid Piety
“You can’t build a relationship with everybody in the room when you don’t care about anybody in the room.”
― Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
― Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently
“To attack the law of God is to attack the holiness of God. To attack the law of God is to attack the nature of God. To attack the law of God is to attack God. The Holy Spirit is given to us so that we can obey the law of God (Rom. 8:1–4). To be antinomian is to be anti-Christian.1”
― Prayer Changes Things : Curing Timid Piety
― Prayer Changes Things : Curing Timid Piety
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