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The ancient church and the Reformers embraced a much larger supernaturalism, affirming that God is revealed in all of creation in a general way and intensely revealed in salvation history (Israel and Jesus) and that this disclosure of
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“Let’s pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.”
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”
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“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be. This often incredibly painful process strips you of selfishness, pride, and fear. For”
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
“In a society that knows about initiative and self-actualization and countless other things, the capacity to lament the death of the old world is nearly lost. In a society strong on self-congratulation, the capacity to receive in doxology the new world being given is nearly lost.”
― Prophetic Imagination
― Prophetic Imagination
“Thus on Easter we celebrate Christ’s Resurrection as something that happened and still happens to us. For each one of us received the gift of that new life and the power to accept it and to live by it. It is a gift which radically alters our attitude toward everything in this world, including death. It makes it possible for us joyfully to affirm: "Death is no more!" Oh, death is still there, to be sure and we still face it and someday it will come and take us. But it is our whole faith that by His own death Christ changed the very nature of death, made it a passage—a "passover," a "Pascha"—into the Kingdom of God, transforming the tragedy of tragedies into the ultimate victory. "Trampling down death by death," He made us partakes of His Resurrection. This is why at the end of the Paschal Matins we say: "Christ is risen and life reigneth! Christ is risen and not one dead remains in the grave!”
― Great Lent: Journey to Pascha
― Great Lent: Journey to Pascha
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