“Joy is deep satisfaction in the will of God, and this must be coupled with recognizing the reality that God’s will is everywhere and in everything. There is no place where we may go and be allowed to murmur or despair because God’s will is somehow “not there.”
― God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas is the Foundation for Everything
― God Rest Ye Merry: Why Christmas is the Foundation for Everything
“It would not be an overstatement to say that the way to a proper understanding of God and his character is given foremost in a proper understanding of the Son of God come in the flesh, Jesus Christ.3”
― God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God
― God With Us: Divine Condescension and the Attributes of God
“When you listen and read one thinker, you become a clone… two thinkers, you become confused… ten thinkers, you’ll begin developing your own voice… two or three hundred thinkers, you become wise and develop your voice.”
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“Preachers have a single calling, to express who and what God is. This is our mandate, to declare what God has revealed about himself. What could be a greater task than being called to preach God?”
― The Preacher's Catechism
― The Preacher's Catechism
“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.”
― The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation
― The First Days of Jesus: The Story of the Incarnation
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