Because deeply changed people have a more powerful and more sustainable impact in the world. Changed people change the world.
“You see, the center of Christianity has always been Jesus Christ. It is not the Bible. It is not expository preaching. It is not a personal response to the gospel message. As important as all of these are for supporting the center, the focal point of right Christian faith is God the Son who became man, lived a life of perfect righteousness, revealed the Father, died for our sins, rose from the dead, ascended into heaven, bequeathed the Spirit, and will come again.”
― RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith
― RetroChristianity: Reclaiming the Forgotten Faith
“Through our tools, we seek to expand our power and control over our circumstances—over nature, over time and distance, over one another.”
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
― The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains
“Strong, negative emotions (fear, anger, anxiety, hopelessness) tend to narrow our minds—it’s as though our peripheral vision has been cut off because we’re so focused on the peril that’s front and center.”
― Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success
― Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success
“Patience involves the capacity to bear with annoyances and to endure delays to our timetable.”
― The Cross and Salvation
― The Cross and Salvation
“He wrote, “The spiritual security of believers . . . depends primarily not on their hold on God but on God’s hold of them.”
― The Cross and Salvation
― The Cross and Salvation
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