John Rakshith Prabhakar

“In an attic somewhere I have a newspaper given to me by my mother. She saved it when World War II ended. In large, six-inch type the paper’s headline declares, “PEACE.” When the word spread in her Tennessee town that the dying was over, she told me, the people poured out of their homes and businesses to dance in the streets. My mom danced in the streets! Now, that must have been something, because she was raised an old-school Methodist, and they just didn’t do that sort of thing. The explanation is easy. When there was life and peace after so much dying, spontaneous joy had to flow. Overflowing, wondrous, beautiful joy always flows when a war is over.”
― Bryan Chapell, The Promises of Grace: Living in the Grip of God's Love

“The inclusion of these non-Israelite women foreshadows the spread of the gospel to the Gentiles and bears witness to the grace of God that actively seeks to forgive and restore sinners and to reach out to those who are marginalized and viewed as outsiders.”
― Andreas J. Köstenberger, The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation

“Salvation through the forgiveness of sins must precede political and economic salvation. The forgiveness of sins was accomplished through Jesus’s death on the cross, while political and economic salvation will be established at his return.”
― Andreas J. Köstenberger, The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation

“We join God’s story and allow him to write our stories by engaging in his mission to the world as his image bearers and commissioned representatives.”
― Andreas J. Köstenberger, The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation