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It is important to maintain, at funerals and otherwise, the distinction between these two categories: death and Death.
“The only reason the death of Jesus was ever thought of as good news was because of what happened next.”
― Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
― Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
“In biblical Greek the word "repent" comes from a military term similar to the command "about face." In...sermons, repentance is all about "turning away' from sin, and certainly repentance would include an element of that. However, the deeper flavor of his word is less about turning away from something and more about turning toward something. As much as the word "repent" makes many of us recoil, what if it is enjoining us to turn away from our fear of God and to turn toward the love of God? what if we simply confess that God is love, and then put a period at the end of the sentence? God is love. Period.”
― Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
― Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith
“The resurrection declared that Jesus was not the ordinary sort of political king, a rebel leader, that some had supposed. He was the leader of a far larger, more radical revolution than anyone had ever supposed. He was inaugurating a whole new world, a new creation, a new way of being human. He was forging a way into a new cosmos, a new era, a form of existence hinted at all along but never before unveiled. Here it is, he was saying. This is the new creation you’ve been waiting for. It is open for business. Come and join in.”
― Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
― Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
“Jesus, properly understood as shalom, coming into the world from the shalom community of the Trinity, is the intention of God’s once-and-for-all mission. That is, the mission of birthing and restoring shalom to the world is in Christ, by Christ, and for the honor of Christ.”
― Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Prophetic Christianity
― Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision (Prophetic Christianity
“We know what the power of the world looks like. When push comes to shove, as it often does, it is the power of violence, using the threat of pain and death. It is, yes, the power of tanks and bombs, and also of guns and knives and whips and prisons and barbed wire and bulldozers. Weapons to destroy people’s lives; machines to destroy their homes. Cruelty in the home or at work. Malice and manipulation where there should be gentleness, kindness, and wisdom. Jesus’s power is of a totally different sort, as he explained to the Roman governor a few minutes before the governor sent him to his death—thereby proving the point. The kingdoms of the world run on violence. The kingdom of God, Jesus declared, runs on love. That is the good news.”
― Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
― Simply Good News: Why the Gospel Is News and What Makes It Good
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