" It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship. . . ." C. S. Lewis (For full quote, click the link below.)
Tag: redemption
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 #66: God’s Big Vision in Jesus
"Help us to display the humility and compassion of the heart of Jesus, which is far more powerful than anything the “great ones” of the earth put on display. Lift our small vision above our own small borders, so that we might catch a vision of your all-encompassing, world-transforming goodness. Amen."
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 #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
Quote of Note #233: Repentance and Forgiveness of Sins
"There is no sin, and there can be no sin on all the earth which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant!" F. Dostoevsky (click link below for full quote)
Quote of Note #229: To Build Something Beautiful Together
"I'm an old man, and this is one of my dreams: that my descendants will one day live in a land where people are quick to confess their wrongdoing and forgive the wrongdoing of others and are eager to build something beautiful together." J. Perkins (click link for full quote)
Quote of Note #225: White Supremacy & “Unjust Forgetting”
"The project of white supremacy has always been a project of erasure, sweeping under the rugs, wiping away from pages, actively distorting the story of us, what [Viet Thanh] Nguyen calls unjust forgetting." D. Stewart
Quote of Note #224: Theocracy–the Worst Form of Government
"I am a democrat because I believe that no man or group of men is good enough to be trusted with uncontrolled power over others." C. S. Lewis
Quote of Note #223: The Human Destructive Inclination toward the Stranger
"We know what our race does to strangers. Man destroys or enslaves every species he can. Civilized man murders, enslaves, cheats, and corrupts savage man. Even inanimate nature he turns into dust bowls and slag-heaps." C. S. Lewis (click link to read full quote)
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