"...our ability to connect the excess in our lives to the lack in our neighbors' lives attests to our new life in Christ." D. Gilliard (For the complete quote, click the link below.)
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Prayer Note #244: A Channel of Life in a World of Death
"In everything, enable me to bear the good fruit that you delight in so that I may be a channel of your new life in this world of death and despair; through Christ the Lord. Amen.” (For the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #261: Accountable Policing
"We are being the Christians God called us to be when we remind the state of the limits of its power." E. McCaulley (For complete quote, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #242: Speaking the Truth Lovingly and Humbly
" Grant me wisdom and self-control so that I might bear witness to the truth only in ways that build up love and unity in your church." (For the complete prayer, 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.)
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.)
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 #245: Completely Pro-Life
"I am extremely interested in the rights of the unborn, but my passion for life does not stop when a baby emerges from his or her mother's womb." J. Perkins (For full quote, click on the link below.)
Bible Note #64: Zechariah 7:9-10–A Rightly Ordered Society in God’s Eyes
"One of the primary tasks God gave to the prophets in ancient Israel was to instruct the people of Israel on how to order their society so that it reflected God’s heart and mind. These verses from the prophet Zechariah are a prime example of that." (For the full post, click the link below.)
Pastor Note #145: What Makes for the Blessed Life?
"Blessed are those who force their way to the front of the line; they will get to run things their own way." (For full post, click link below.)
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