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"“For only after we have understood how the cross and the kingdom go together will we be equipped to consider how Christians carry with them the marks of Jesus’ death and the message of Jesus’ kingdom. We can’t be content with either being a cross-centered church or a kingdom-centered church.“" — Dec 19, 2025 07:48AM
"“For only after we have understood how the cross and the kingdom go together will we be equipped to consider how Christians carry with them the marks of Jesus’ death and the message of Jesus’ kingdom. We can’t be content with either being a cross-centered church or a kingdom-centered church.“" — Dec 19, 2025 07:48AM
DREAM DEFERRED What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy
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“When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity—that was a quality God’s image carried with it. When you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“To be a Christ follower is to be faithful amid tension. To stay engaged, to remain hopeful, to love anyway, to walk with integrity, and to bear witness to the love, mercy, and grace of Christ.”
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
“It was for this world that Christ had died; the more evil you saw and heard about you, the greater glory lay around the death. It was too easy to die for what was good or beautiful, for home or children or a civilization—it needed a God to die for the half-hearted and the corrupt.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“Loving God isn’t any different from loving a man—or a child. It’s wanting to be with Him, to be near Him.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“The Jesus I follow is not the emperor arriving on a chariot, but the humble King arriving on a donkey. The all-powerful Lord who chooses a different way, who comes to serve. The Jesus I follow made deliberate efforts to get to know and befriend those who were shunned by society. The Jesus I follow did not have a home, and challenged people to not follow the law, but to live into a new life, a new way of thinking, to bring forth the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.”
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
― Thou Shalt Not Be a Jerk: A Christian's Guide to Engaging Politics
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