Plus Jesus? (Getting the math of Christian living right)
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“Our transformation means that the formula is not ‘MY life plus Jesus’ on top, but rather ‘JESUS equals my life’ in all that I do, how I do it, and why.” - Ken Brown
As iron sharpens iron,
one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
“Our transformation means that the formula is not ‘MY life plus Jesus’ on top, but rather ‘JESUS equals my life’ in all that I do, how I do it, and why.” - Ken Brown
“Let me explain briefly why language change is actually a good thing for Christians who love God and his word.” - Mark Ward
Spurgeon delivered this sermon on Lord’s-Day morning, December 20th, 1868 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.
And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. (Isaiah 25:6)
“Satan knows what it is that can keep you distracted – the worries of life, temptations, and so many other things. We need to be careful not to be conformed in any way to this world” - P&D
“when it comes to policy changes like funding for employees to have an abortion, vaccinations, or even trans inclusion, it’s likely these are not calling for a direct mistreatment from you to other people.” - Kainos
“Since we forfeited the garden, humans have been pierced with a home-longing. We leave home looking to find home. Yet it always seems to elude us. It’s never the same if we go back.” - Desiring God
“What means are justifiable in pursuit of good ends? What alliances are defensible? What schemes are permissible? … Proverbs takes a dim view of dirty tricks and amoral transactionalism.” - CToday
“Christmas — over any other season — tends to make life’s sweet things sweeter and hard things harder.” - Desiring God
“for Crouch, the question isn’t so much, ‘How do we get off our phones?’ but rather ‘How can we start seeing one another as persons again?’” - Acton
“How evangelical computer programmers changed the way we read Scripture.” - CToday
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