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"I'm not a drinker myself." 😀

Rich and actually edifying!

This book is asking the right questions: “How can the struggle to find a gracious God be relevant in an age when people are not gripped by a sense of God’s reality and presence, his holiness and majesty, which provoke the question in the first place?”

I might be wrong, but I feel like I have already found the thesis of this book, though not quite complete. Powlison, with gentleness yet firm stand in the holiness of Jesus, states that sexuality in this fallen world is being sanctified into a "willing servant of love". That can't get anymore beautiful. 🤎

Well, here's a book I can't refuse.

I would love to get lost inside your mind, Mister Theo. Age and experience, paired with a great story teller, I have found, give wisdom far more than books.

“A theology of peace does not exempt us from a willingness to suffer in the conflict. Christians, like Christ himself, must be willing to die for that which they are unwilling to kill.”

“If in our witness to the world we can set forth the incomparable beauty of Christ, and if we can learn to live beautiful lives in reflection of Christ, hearts can be won, even in a milieu of skepticism.”

This book is making me consider things about the cross that I never thought of. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of books in this side of eternity. 🤍

The 6th chapter 'A Love Supreme' is a weak chapter. A beautiful prose about the love of God but does not dig deep on its complexities. As much as I don't want to say it, that chapter seems to me a strings of word with no direction, seeking only to inflame the emotions and not the redeemed heart of the believer.

Oh, what beautiful prose. I wish I could write like this. The story that Brian employed in Chapter 4 is so moving, and for a teenager, a good glimpse to the kind of suffering that the aged has went through, even today.

“God has been hung upon the gallows. God has drunk the bitter dregs of human depravity. God has died a degrading death at the hands of cruel oppressors. But God is not dead.”

Despite the doctrinal issues that this book presents, I cannot deny that Brian loves Jesus. Reading for more.

“Where once in our distant pagan past we imagined there lurked monstrous intent threatening harm, we now discover there is only tender compassion. On the cross we encounter a God who would rather die than kill his enemies. ”