“Jesus is a person, not a proposition; however, language is the means the Spirit uses to enable the gospel to become the all-encompassing framework that allows disciples not only to think but also to situate themselves in relation to the truth, goodness, and beauty of what is in Christ.”
― The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
― The Pastor as Public Theologian: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
“Because of the link between righteousness and justice, the poor and oppressed could rely on the righteousness of God to uphold the justice of their cause (e.g. Pss 9:4-5; 103:6; 112:9; Isa. 11:4), and believers could trust God, in his righteousness, to protect and deliver them from their enemies (e.g. Pss 5:8; 31:1; 35:24; 71:2; 143:11).”
― Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach
― Old Testament Theology: A Thematic Approach
“Our having all of God shows the fulness of his power and grace: our having all through him shows the fulness of his merit and worthiness; and our having all in him demonstrates his fulness of beauty, love and happiness.”
― Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
― Selected Sermons of Jonathan Edwards
“we may think of religious art from a cultural standpoint, we should not look to pictures of God to show us his glory and move us to worship; for his glory is precisely what such pictures can never show us. And”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“There are so many people trying to diagnose the human situation; and they come to the conclusion that man is sick, man is unhappy, man is the victim of circumstances. They believe therefore that his primary need is to have these things dealt with, that he must be delivered from them. But I suggest that that is too superficial a diagnosis of the condition of man, and that man’s real trouble is that he is a rebel against God and consequently under the wrath of God.”
― Preaching and Preachers
― Preaching and Preachers
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