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"kingdom and cross play distinct and yet inseparable roles in the story of redemption. The kingdom is telic (the goal toward which everything moves) and the cross is central (the climax and turning point of the story), and they intersect as the end-time kingdom breaks into history through the cross."

One chapter in and this book's great

"Neighborly love is not a love of culpability but a love of compassion."

"Augustine define justice as 'giving everyone his due'... What Paul contributes to his definition of justice is the startling declaration that were neighbors are due is our love."

"you cannot separate Christian ethics from the Christian gospel" p.23

Love this book. Taking a chapter a week. Worth a long steep. Short, simple, sanctifying

"Believe what you believe."

"One of the great needs of Christians... is not to believe more and better things, but to believe what we already believe."

smart guy

If only we will take the courage to fix our gaze deliberately upon the stern countenance of grief, and enter unafraid into the darkest recesses of our trouble, we shall find the terror gone, because the Lord has been there before us, and, coming out again, has left the place transfigured, making of it by the grace of his resurrection a house of life, the very gate of heaven.

Geerhardus Vos

this Watkin guy's pretty smart