"Love is the fiery heart beating at the center of the urgent call for justice in our world." J. Tisby (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #239: Healing Among the Thorns
"Lord Jesus, the thorns and thistles of the fallen and troubled life are everywhere I turn my eyes. Some days that’s all that I can see, all that I can feel. Their sharp spines tear at me. They steal all my attention." (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #252: Reconciling our Divisions
"The first sin of Adam and Eve separated human beings from God and from one another. Anything that widens that divide is also sin--it contradicts God's will for humans as a community and for each of us individually." J. Perkins (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #251: Jesus our All in All
"For then God wills to be all things to us--home and friend, mother hand and food for the coming day, the place where we can lay our heads, the heart in which we can find rest and can be like the fowls of the air and the lilies of the field, and say, 'I have nothing, and now Thy hand must be all things.'" H. Thielicke (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #250: Jesus Knows our Sufferings
"By my own suffering, I understood a fraction of Jesus' suffering. And that gave me strength. Now I could bear my own suffering." Corrie ten Boom (For complete quote, click link below.)
Bible Note #69: A Grace-based Society after God’s Heart
"This graciousness and free generosity that we see expressed both in the gospel of salvation and in God’s vision for society are both rooted in the character of God—our gracious, generous, compassionate God." (For the complete post, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #249: Cultural Influence
"In our attitude toward what is going on in the world around us, we evangelicals often present ourselves with a false choice. Either we try to separate ourselves as much as possible from the larger culture, or we think we have to attempt to dominate it." Richard Mouw (For complete quote, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #238: A Prayer on an Easter Morning
"In my own body, in my own life, may I have an in-breaking of your Easter Victory over death? You are risen! May I also be raised with you! Amen."
Quote of Note #248: Loving our Enemies
"Yes, we never touch the ocean of God's love so much as when we love our enemies. It is a joy to accept forgiveness, but it is almost a greater joy to give forgiveness." Corrie ten Boom, He Cares, He Comforts: In Sickness and In Health. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1977, page … Continue reading Quote of Note #248: Loving our Enemies
Quote of Note #247: Becoming a Lie
"The penalty of deception is to become a deception, with all sense of moral discrimination vitiated. A man who lies habitually becomes a lie, and it is increasingly impossible for him to know when he is lying and when he is not." Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited. Boston: Beacon Press, 1949/1996, page 55. Related … Continue reading Quote of Note #247: Becoming a Lie
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