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| 69bcc0c | Once a seminary student asked to shadow me for two days to see what my life as a pastor was like. At the end, he said, "Oh my gosh, you're basically a person for a living." -- | pastoral-ministry pastoring vocation | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 0919d0a | I'm surprisingly unconcerned with what people in my church believe. Belief is going to be influenced by all sorts of things that I have nothing to do with, so I don't feel responsible for that. I'm responsible for what they hear -- and hearing the gospel, the good news about who God is, slowly forms us over time. | pastors preaching | Nadia Bolz-Weber | |
| 4b8eb7b | Nadia, the thing that sucks is that every time we draw a line between us and others, Jesus is always on the other side of it." Damn." | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 22c1605 | In a way, I need a God who is bigger and more nimble and mysterious than what I could understand and contrive. Otherwise it can feel like I am worshipping nothing more than my own ability to understand the divine. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 2549cfa | Any identity other than child of God is spiritually meaningless. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 8f42821 | It doesn't feel very difficult to draw a direct line between the messages many of us received from the church and the harm we've experienced in our bodies and spirits as a result. So my argument in this book is this: we should not be more loyal to an idea, a doctrine, or an interpretation of a Bible verse than we are to . If the teachings of the church are harming the bodies and spirits of people, we should rethink those teachings. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| ca5bf99 | Having said that, if you want a community like the one you've just read about, I bet you are not the only one in your town who feels this way. So do what we did: Gather a small number of people once a month to simply share a meal and pray together. Talk about your lives and what is happening in the world. Be yourselves. Extend grace. Read the gospel...and repeat. (Since ancient times, saints and sinners have called this mysteriously transfo.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| f77be0d | The religiosity of the prohibition movement was stoked by a genuine desire to lead holy lives pleasing to God. But purity is easier to regulate than holiness. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 3e72a4e | But here's the problem with capital total abstinence: when our country made drinking illegal and instilled fear in children about the evils of alcohol, it led, not to increase of holiness, but to a culture of secrecy, hypocrisy, and double standards. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| a8b6e47 | If the Gospel is where we find healing from the harm done to us by the messages of the church, then it must also be where we find freedom. Meaning that even if it is the last thing I want to do, I absolutely have to believe the Gospel is powerful enough, transgressive enough, beautiful enough to heal not only the ones who have been hurt but also those who have done the hurting. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 4749081 | I need a place to confess that I don't have everything figured out. Christianity is not a program for avoiding mistakes; it is a faith of the guilty. There is no "right" or perfect way to be. We learn from our mistakes; we extend grace to others and ourselves. In the same way a lover who loves your body allows you to have grace for it, so is grace the antithesis of rejection." | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| f3eca36 | So if God's first move is to give us our identity, then the devil's first move is to throw that identity into question. Identity is like the tip of a spool of thread, which when pulled, can unwind the whole | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| f811b01 | There are times when I hear my name, turn, and recognize Jesus. There are times when faith feels like a friendship with God. But there are many other times when it feels more adversarial or even vacant. Yet none of that matters in the end. How we feel about Jesus or how close we feel to God is meaningless next to how God acts upon us. How God indeed enters into our messy lives and loves us through them, whether we want God's help or not. An.. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 09245e2 | I'm not running after Jesus. Jesus is running my ass down. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| 8022a85 | Our scars are part of our story, but they are not its conclusion. The past is ours and will always be a part of us, and yet it is not all there is. It's a process, moving from wounds to scars to grief to showing those scars. It takes time, and maybe therapy, and maybe being vulnerable in community, and maybe working through the twelve steps, and maybe making a lot of mistakes, and maybe experiencing a tiny bit of joy. | Nadia Bolz-Weber | ||
| a67b25b | She was under her husband's headship, yet she was in many ways an even more glorious creature than he, treasured and extolled by him. They were partners and companions, fellow-laborers in the garden. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 89465b8 | The moment he saw her, he loved her. His first words upon meeting her express a profound sense of wonder, genuine delight, and abiding satisfaction: This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh. Clearly, he already felt a deep, personal attachment to Eve. She was a priceless treasure to be cherished , a worthy partner to encourage him, and a pleasing spouse who would love him in return. Instantly, he adored her and embraced her as his.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 1acf2e3 | God's Word is our only reliable source of truth about Satan and demons. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 89a0adb | There's a third element of the raw material that makes a true leader: involvement. True leaders are always in the middle of the action. They do not sit in the background telling everyone else what to do while they live a life of comfort away from the fray. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| b0939ca | Consider this simple thought. The Lord could have made everything brown. Brown grass, brown flowers, brown sky, brown sea. But He didn't. There is much for us to enjoy in the variety and the beauty of His creation. These things illustrate His essential goodness. God is good. His goodness is seen in all His works. | creation | John F. MacArthur Jr. | |
| d090384 | Men and women, though equal in essence, were designed for different roles. Women are in no sense intellectually or spiritually inferior to men, but they were quite clearly created for a distinctive purpose. In the economy of church and family, the Bible says women should be subordinate to the authority of men. Yet scripture also recognizes that in a completely different sense, women are exalted above men--because they are the living and bre.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| ed369e8 | Why would we spend our lives being amused by the dim hue of the television when we could be breathlessly enraptured in the blazing brilliance of Christ's glory? Let us keep our eyes on Christ, the Author and Perfecter of the faith. In so doing, we will have little appetite for the fading illusions of this passing world. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| c624011 | I would never want to be president because the power to bring righteousness to this country does not now and will never reside in public office. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 31c792a | Rather than demanding our rights and creating for ourselves a world where we feel safe and accepted, we need to see the deep spiritual needs of the world and concern ourselves with offering people hope through Jesus Christ. That's what being a living sacrifice is all about. Third, | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 5bd1a2d | The Creator has planned precisely how and when this world will end, and neither global warming nor global terrorism will be to blame. Just as with the Flood, the final destruction will be God's doing. This earth will not last forever. But a new earth will be created in its place, one which will last forever because it will never be touched by sin. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 49667fd | We tend to forget even the basic fact that all people live in a fallen world--we are sinful creatures living in a corrupt, sin-cursed society. Believers should not be surprised, perplexed, or resentful when they encounter difficulties throughout this life. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 0d44a43 | Paul knew what he was talking about when he called Christians "earthen vessels." We're baked clay. We're privy pots. The advance of the gospel will never occur on account of us. This helps explain why God chose none of the early preachers among the apostles because of his superior intellect, position, or prominence. As I wrote in my book Twelve Ordinary Men, these twelve were so ordinary it defies all human logic: not one teacher, not one p.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 82d63fd | In 1 Corinthians 14:13-17, Paul mentioned that the gift of tongues was used in public prayer for the purpose of edification. Charismatics, however, have tried to redefine the gift of tongues as a special mode of supernatural expression for their personal devotions and private prayers. But notice how different Paul's description is from that of modern tongues-speakers. First, Paul was not commending any form of gibberish, since he had alread.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| fa8ab37 | many evangelicals approach politics as if the degradation of society is something they can stop with legislation. The truth is that no society will ever be truly made right until Christ comes and sets up His kingdom | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 3187fd6 | Human intellect plays no role in redemption. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 85b3d12 | Probably nothing is more true of sinners today than that they think they are free. They see Christianity as some kind of bondage. It is all about rights: "No one is going to infringe on my rights. I can be what I want to be. I'm free to be myself." You hear that inane statement again and again. Such people are not free. The Bible defines them as prisoners. Sin has indebted them to God, and it's a debt they cannot pay. They are in bondage, a.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 86c3660 | The message of the cross is not about felt needs. It is not about Jesus loving you so much He wants to make you happy. It is about rescuing you from damnation, because that is the sentence that rests upon the head of every human being. And so the gospel is an offense every way you look at it. There's nothing about the cross that fits in comfortably with how man views himself. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 9fc090a | This is typical of defectors. They look at Jesus as the one who's going to solve their daily dilemmas, fix their lives, meet their needs and desires, and make them rich. Try to sell the gospel on that basis, and people will come to you for all the wrong reasons. You cannot call people to Christ because it's the thing to do and everybody's doing it. You can't call people to Christ to get swell miracles or have their lives straightened out. T.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| b87a8d7 | This is an age-old fantasy. I remember reading a quote from the apologist Edward John Carnell in Ian Murray's biography of the Welsh preacher David Martyn Lloyd-Jones. During the formative years of Fuller Theological Seminary, Carnell said regarding evangelicalism, "We need prestige desperately." Christians have worked hard to position themselves in places of power within the culture. They seek influence academically, politically, economica.. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| 6992aa1 | I hate the churches of the world, however, that have become havens for heretics. I resent a TV church that, in many cases, has become a den of thieves. I would love to see the divine Lord take a whip and have at it in the religion of our time. I sometimes pray imprecatory psalms directly on the heads of certain people. But mostly, I pray for the kingdom to come. Mostly I pray for the gospel to penetrate the hearts of the lost. I understand .. | John F. MacArthur Jr. | ||
| daf3757 | He was a startlingly handsome young man, and that, too, distracted him for girls were attracted to him like priests to gold. | Bernard Cornwell | ||
| 439230d | Thou hadst: whom hast thou then or what to accuse, But Heav'ns free Love dealt equally to all? Be then his Love accurst, since love or hate, To me alike, it deals eternal woe. Nay | John Milton | ||
| cfbe78c | If I have to err, it's on the side of assuming the worst. This way, if I'm wrong, I can always apologize. Or send flowers. You err on the other side, the flowers will be coming to you. | Barry Eisler | ||
| 3229898 | It was a skill useful to lawyers, and no man in all English history was more the lawyer than Coke. He personified a profession considered both so influential and so dubious that in 1372 the House of Commons had tried to bar lawyers from Parliament; little had changed when, in Coke's lifetime, Shakespeare wrote, "First, kill all the lawyers." | John M. Barry | ||
| c699594 | Another explanation for the failure of logic and observation alone to advance medicine is that unlike, say, physics, which uses a form of logic - mathematics - as its natural language, biology does not lend itself to logic. Leo Szilard, a prominent physicist, made this point when he complained that after switching from physics to biology he never had a peaceful bath again. As a physicist he would soak in the warmth of a bathtub and contempl.. | medicine science | John M. Barry | |
| ce86ed0 | Influenza killed more people in a year than the Black Death of the Middle Ages killed in a century; it killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years. | John M. Barry | ||
| 301fe1f | Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. | peter-pan | J.M. Barrie | |
| e91f65f | In the main, the trouble with American education is that we have put into practice the educational philosophy expounded by John Dewey and his disciples. In varying degrees we have adopted what has been called "progressive education." Subscribing to the egalitarian notion that every child must have the same education, we have neglected to provide an educational system which will tax the talents and stir the ambitions of our best students and.. | Barry M. Goldwater | ||
| 88df390 | I don't drink coffee," she said, taking a sip from her tea. "Coffee is for Americans and Protestants. Irish people should drink tea. That's how we were brought up after all. Give me a nice cup of Lyons and I'm content." "I don't mind the occasional cup of Barry's myself." "No, that's from Cork." | John Boyne |