Quote of Note #243: The Dangerous Decision to Love

"In a day when we are taught to look for easy solutions, it is not always easy to hold on to that most difficult one of all, love." M. L'Engle (For full quote, click link below.)

Bible Note #68: Acts 9:1-19–God’s Amazing, Undeserved Grace

"The gracious acceptance of the God whom he’d persecuted, the compassionate healing of the God whose people Saul had killed, the love of God filled and restored this wretched and broken man.  This is the very gospel of Christ in all its beauty and in all its power." (For the full post, click the link below.)

Bible Note #67: God Won’t Abandon Us

"Lord Jesus, our good Shepherd, don’t let us wander away from you.  Don’t let us think that we are far from you and forgotten.  Instead, enable us to know that you are always near and busy about the work of making all things new.  Amen." (For full post, click the link below.)

Bible Note #65: Knowing Jesus & Following Him

"They saw something in Jesus – something powerful and glorious and very, very good, something that they wouldn’t really understand for a long time after this – that just drew them right out of themselves and into a life of discipleship to Jesus." (For full post, click link below.)

Quote of Note #240: The Highest Christian Virtue: Love

“If you ask twenty good men today what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked any of the great Christians of old, he would have replied, Love. You see what has happened?" C. S. Lewis (for full quote, click 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.)

Quote of Note #235: On the Right Use of Wealth

"If one who takes the clothing off another is called a thief, why give any other name to the one who can clothe the naked and refuses to do so? " Basil the Great (for full quote click link below)

Quote of Note #234: True Biblical Justice

"I've come to understand that justice is an act of reconciliation that restores any part of God's creation to its original intent, purpose, or image." J. Perkins