"...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.)
Tag: redemption
Prayer Note #243: Broken by Sin–Redeemed to Serve
"May I also—broken and remade—be an instrument of your redemption; for the glory of your Name. 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.)
Quote of Note #258: God’s Presence in the Raging Storm
"God comes specifically and gladly into the midst of disasters and the sphere of death." H. Thielicke (For full quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #256: God on His Terms, Not Ours
". . . a way of life open and responsive to what God is doing rather than one in which we plot strategies to get God involved in what we are doing." E. Peterson (For the complete quote, click the link below."
Quote of Note #255: Following the Jesus Way
"...the very 'Way' Jesus walked on earth was and is: to be building a community of thankful healed persons busy in redeeming ordinary activities with joy, sharing gifts and goods to fill communal needs (cf. Acts 4:32-35), quietly exorcizing the spirit of vanity, violence, greed, and pride infecting leaders like a deadly virus." C. Seerveld (For complete quote, click the link below.)
Prayer Note #240: Christ the Victor
"I am a mess. But in your will, I am not meant to be a mess. I am made by you with the intent that I should shine with the glorious goodness of your image. Your purpose for me is that I should bear the light of your likeness into this darkened world." (To see the complete prayer, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #254: Not by Violence but by Self-Giving Love
"At the heart of John’s kingdom theology is God’s love revealed in the death of his Son, the Lamb, the Messiah. This is conquest, but by love. This is power, but in weakness. This is kingship, but in self-giving suffering for others." Wright & Bird (For the full quote, click the link below.)
Quote of Note #253: Justice Rooted in Love
"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.)
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