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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 7fb40e0 | We produce nothing but our act of faith. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| 982731f | They have been fulfilled in Christ, so we must determine their theological purposes and apply them to current situations. We need holiness and a proper relationship with God just as they did, and the legal regulations properly understood can help us center on those critical areas of the Christian life. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| 2d2f204 | Our task is to decipher the meaning of the historical-theological text in biblical narrative, not to reconstruct the original event. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| 4cb68b5 | More seeds of ministry are sown in youth between the ages of twelve and eighteen, more relationships forged that affect their future, more choices made with long-term implications, than arguably any other period in life.'I'hese are the years when young adults begin to think about issues that will influence the rest of their lives. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 7731f1a | The church is not a hotel for saints; it is a hospital for sinners. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| a7fe9fe | Imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms (Ps 12; 35; 52; 57--59; 69; 70; 83; 109; 137; 140) are usually lament psalms where the writer's bitterness and desire for vindication are especially predominant. This leads to such statements as Psalm 137:8- 9, "[Happy is] he who seizes your infants / and dashes them against the rocks." Such statements are shocking to modern sensitivities and cause many to wonder at the ethical standards of the biblica.. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| e60e14d | God created the world in the way that he saw fit, and humans should not question the divinely appointed order. All wisdom literature, not just Job, develops this theme (e.g., Is 40:28- 29). Human beings must take their proper place in the cosmos, find their appointed life and make the most of it. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| fe2f978 | God's justice transcends human frailty, and our duty is to await his answers. Rather than assume the right to determine the laws of God's created order (Crenshaw calls this "Titanism"), we must humbly submit to God's greater wisdom." | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| a0bdd7f | what if we spent as much time and money on Bible study as we do our hobbies? | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| da8390a | The right hand in Scripture symbolizes power and authority | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| ecf12f8 | Indeed, the Bible has been cast adrift from its moorings and left to float on a sea of modern relativity. The "play" of meanings in the stories is seen to be open-ended, and modern readers must construct their own interpretation. Rhoads and Michie thus call Mark "a literary creation with an autonomous integrity" existing independently from any resemblance to the actual person and life of Jesus. It is a "closed and self-sufficient world," an.. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| edcb038 | In AD 57 in the city of Corinth, the Apostle Paul wrote the greatest book ever penned in human history: his letter to the Roman church. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| e72b69c | The deep meaning of any text is a buried treasure; all the riches are waiting under the surface. If we learned there was gold deep under our backyard, nothing would stop us from getting the tools we needed to dig it out. Similarly, in serious Bible study all the treasures and riches of God are waiting to be dug up for our benefit. | Grant R. Osborne | ||
| 67161e5 | First, we are not selling something people may or may not need; we are offering a free gift that is the most vital news a person could ever know. Second, when you sell something, you are dependent on the product and on your ability to sell it. But with the gospel, we have resources not of this world. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| ed41b2b | We need student pastors and national and parachurch leaders who are better at theology than at new ideas. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| e1ab52c | Jesus is going to return one day and take his bride, all believers, to a new heaven and earth. We will be in the very presence of Jesus, the one who saved us and walks with us. Take hope in that fact. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| e6a0439 | Revitalizing a church does not start with a list of how to's, but with a fresh vision of God and His Lordship over the church. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 64e46be | Kenda Creasy Dean observed, "The National Study of Youth and Religion reveals a theological fault line running underneath American churches: an adherence to a do-good, feel-good spirituality that has little to do with the Triune God of Christian tradition and even less to do with loving Jesus Christ enough to follow him into the world."13" | Alvin L Reid | ||
| 0be77fa | Here are a few ways you can encourage students to share, although I bet you can get with them and come up with creative ideas of your own. * Post their testimony as a Facebook note or on their blog or Tumblr, and link to that with Twitter or status updates. Or, send a message to friends and ask them to read it and give their feedback. * Tweet or post key verses, maybe a series noting the narrative of the gospel. * Set aside an hour a week o.. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 1f67d2c | How many students are sharing their faith? How many are volunteering at the school? How are students in your ministry cultivating relationships with unchurched youth? How are their families doing? How are they living for Christ after leaving the student ministry? | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 0ea648f | For the body of Christ to yearn for revitalization it must begin with the truth that she does not exist for herself or for her members, but she belongs to God. We cannot compartmentalize the local church any more than we can compartmentalize ourselves. The center of the local church is neither the pastor nor the people. The center is Christ. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 3e58736 | We have taken the good news of the gospel off the headlines of our ministries where it should always be, and we have put it in the advice column part of our youth groups. We pull the gospel out to give advice rather than showing students how Jesus is the hero of all of Scripture, all of life, all the parts of their lives, and showing them how the gospel makes sense of everything. | Alvin L Reid | ||
| 4e46427 | God, give me today (1) an opportunity to speak with someone about Jesus; (2) the wisdom to see it; and (3) the courage to take it." Talking with God regularly about our witness helps overcome our fears of witnessing to others." | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 29b784d | Jesus also told us to keep his commands not out of fear of his wrath, but so that our joy would be made full (John 15:10-11 ESV). | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 9682fed | S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien speaks to this innate human desire for being part of larger-than-life stories, quests, and victories--the draw of our hearts toward "myths," which Lewis said were "lies and therefore worthless, even though breathed through silver." "No," Tolkien replied, "they are not lies." Far from being untrue, myths are the best way--sometimes the only way--of conveying truths that would otherwise remain inexpressible. We h.. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 09dd18c | Christianity is a movement to be advanced, not merely an institution to be maintained. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| cfc2d6f | Principle 4: God has sovereignly placed you in this world at this time with the abilities and gifts you have to bring glory to him and show the joy of the gospel to others. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| a9e4187 | We all have things in our lives we wish we could change and mistakes we have made, but these do not define us. Let the one who created you and who redeemed you be the one who defines you. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 2c2e0f4 | Negatively, abstain from the passions of the flesh. Think of it this way: pursue the things in your life that stir your affections for Jesus. Conversely, abstain from the things that tend to diminish your affections for him. Think of the things in your life that diminish your love for God, and remove them. Surround yourself with things that stir your affections for Jesus. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 8f5d58c | The joy of God equips us with knowledge, freedom, and strength. . . . Our identities and motivations are invested in loving others rather than serving ourselves. And we have the power of the Spirit to help us carry that love through in action. Shame on us if we're not experts in making the world a better place! This--and nothing else--is what can create a real encounter with the holistic joy of God for people outside the church. If they enc.. | Alvin L. Reid | ||
| 2a2ccb0 | In Pakistan, my friends and family are frightened, as they should be when the | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| f465ded | The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| c25d46e | And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus." | Anne Rice | ||
| dd067e1 | I read it over and over again, until I notice the paper getting wet, the ink blurring into little flowers. | tears | Mohsin Hamid | |
| f2f2283 | If differences can be hidden, perhaps there aren't differences at all | opinions tolerance truth | Mohsin Hamid | |
| 4875864 | When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain | life past uncertainty | Mohsin Hamid | |
| d21917e | But in his devotions was ever more devotion, and towards her it seemed there was ever less. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 8df1469 | Le personalita non hanno un unico immutabile colore, come il bianco o il blu, ma sono come schermi illuminati, e le sfumature che proiettiamo dipendono da cio che ci circonda | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 3538640 | E cosi, qualunque fosse la ragione, quella volta la moderazione ebbe la meglio, e l'audacia, perche ci vuole coraggio a non attaccare quando si ha paura | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 9bcdd84 | Da parte sua, Saeed avrebbe voluto poter fare qualcosa per Nadia, poterla proteggere da quel che li aspettava, per quanto, a un certo livello, capisse che amare significa accettare che inevitabilmente un giorno non riuscirai a proteggere quel che hai di piu prezioso. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2a87faa | Back to 1815, this is the year Nathan Mayer Rothschild makes his famous statement, "I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls Britain's money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply." | Andrew Carrington Hitchcock | ||
| afc79c8 | Quando pregava, entrava in contatto coi suoi genitori, con cui altrimenti non avrebbe piu potuto entrare in contatto, ed entrava in contatto con la sensazione che siamo tutti figli che abbiamo perso i nostri genitori, tutti, ogni uomo e donna e ragazzo e ragazza, e noi verremo persi da coloro che verranno dopo di noi e ci ameranno, e questo lutto unisce l'umanita, unisce ogni essere umano, la natura fugace del nostro essere qui, il nostro d.. | Mohsin Hamid | ||
| 2226c3b | Play your music, read your books, think your own thoughts, and never let yourselves be drawn into an argument! Not an altogether satisfactory way of life, but the only one possible in times when the world is changing so fast that parents and children may be a thousand years apart in their ideas and ideals. | Upton Sinclair | ||
| 6529a4a | Here was a population, low-class and mostly foreign, hanging always on the verge of starvation, and dependent for its opportunities of life upon the whim of men every bit as brutal and unscrupulous as the old-time slave drivers; under such circumstances immorality was exactly as inevitable, and as prevalent, as it was under the system of chattel slavery. Things that were quite unspeakable went on there in the packing houses all the time, an.. | Upton Sinclair |