Tina

“to be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs, The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment

“The cumulative testimony of the four Gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“The lament of Good Friday was answered three days later with the empty tomb. The greatest injustice in history became the greatest display of divine mercy. Tragedy became triumph. Lament was the voice in between.”
― Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

“We are living in an age, I believe, where preaching has fallen on hard times. There are many reasons for this, but one reason is that pastors have a limited vocabulary and ability to express God’s attributes to his people. As a result, they do not paint vivid pictures of God’s goodness, love, patience, wrath, and so forth, in order to move congregants to respond to these glorious truths. God is good. Fine! But how is God good? The preacher must creatively and convincingly unfold these perfections so Christians can understand, love, and believe God’s goodness to them.”
― Mark Jones, God Is: A Devotional Guide to the Attributes of God