“That is the best picture of what the incarnation means when we look at in its true context. For that is what happened in Jesus Christ from his birth to his resurrection. The Son of God entered into our broken, Fallen, alienated human existence. He took upon himself our fallen flesh. He stood in Adam's shoes, in Israel's shoes, in our shoes, and he steadfastly refused to be Adam, He refused to be Israel. He refused to be what we are.”
― The Great Dance: The Christian Vision Revisited
― The Great Dance: The Christian Vision Revisited
“When you start with legal holiness, you have eyes only for the cross, and you never see that in Jesus Christ, nothing less than the eternal trinitarian life of Father, Son and Spirit is being lived out inside human existence. You never really get the staggering meaning of the incarnation.”
― The Great Dance: The Christian Vision Revisited
― The Great Dance: The Christian Vision Revisited
“The purpose of his life, death, and resurrection was to ransom you from your sin, deliver you from the clutches of evil, restore you to God - so that his personality and his life could heal and fill your personality. Your humanity, and your life. This is the reason he came.
Anything else is religion.”
― Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
Anything else is religion.”
― Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus
“Don't climb a single rung up the entitlement ladder. Demanding something you haven't truly earned is a great way to get stuck in the land of Learning for decades, even an entire lifetime. Kick those ladders over and keep on walking.”
― Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters
― Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters
“Regardless of what you want to do or who you are, fear will always see you as wholly unqualified for anything you ever dream or attempt.”
― Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters
― Start.: Punch Fear in the Face, Escape Average, and Do Work That Matters
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