creation of a lyrical dis-course that inspires and transforms us—a dis-course being that form of (mis)communication that sends us spinning off course and onto a new course.
“A Christianity that is walled off from the culture around it is a Christianity that dies. The”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“God permits what he hates in order to accomplish what he loves.” Heaven”
― Why, O God?: Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
― Why, O God?: Suffering and Disability in the Bible and the Church
“A church that assumes the gospel is a church that soon loses the gospel. The church now must articulate, at every phase, the reason for our existence, because it is no longer an obvious part of the cultural ecosystem. That”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
“You know how people say nothing can prepare you for children? Well, nothing can prepare you for your first experience changing a bedbound 300-lb patient who cannot move, and is covered in feces and urine in a small, non-ventilated nursing home room. Nothing.”
― Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for Your Patients and Yourself
― Becoming Nursey: From Code Blues to Code Browns, How to Care for Your Patients and Yourself
“The closeness of American culture with the church caused many sectors of the American church to read the Bible as though the Bible were pointing us to America itself. That’s why endless recitations of 2 Chronicles 7:14 focused on revival in the nation as a means to national blessing, without ever seeming to ask who the “my people” of this text actually are, and what it means, in light of the gospel, to be “blessed.”
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
― Onward: Engaging the Culture without Losing the Gospel
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