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"New edition is complete, but I’m helping lead a class in the last semester using the 2009 edition. I’ve read the second edition twice but only parts of this. Feels choppy."
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Feb 01, 2026 07:32AM
“The gospel presents both high ideals and all-encompassing grace. Very often, however, the church tilts one direction or the other. Either it lowers the ideals, adjusting moral standards downward, softening Jesus’ strong commands, rationalizing behavior; or else it pulls in the boundaries of grace, declaring some sins worse than others, some sinners beyond the pale. Few churches stay faithful both to the high ideals of gospel and its bottomless grace.”
― Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
― Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
“In times of dread it’s good to have an old man along. An old man has seen worse.”
― So Brave, Young and Handsome
― So Brave, Young and Handsome
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
― All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes
“Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.”
― Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
― Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology
“And then it hit me. Don’t we claim to know how the game of life ends? And if we do, shouldn’t that affect the way we interpret and respond to the Enemy’s short-term victories and temporary advances? If our sins are forgiven and our destiny assured, if we are joint heirs with Jesus and certain he’s coming back to set all wrongs right, then despair and panic over the latest court decision, or even the steady erosion of morality in our culture, hardly seem like appropriate responses.”
― Thriving in Babylon: Why Hope, Humility, and Wisdom Matter in a Godless Culture
― Thriving in Babylon: Why Hope, Humility, and Wisdom Matter in a Godless Culture
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