Of all … religions, Christianity alone bases its claim to acceptance on the resurrection of its Founder.
J. Oswald Sanders, The Incomparable Christ, p. 211
Tag Archives: Christianity
The Law of Life
The cross is the law of life. The revelation that was made there was made, not merely that we might cling to it as a refuge from our sins, but that we might accept it as the rule of our conduct.
Alexander Maclaren, Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians, p. 383
Thousands of Purposes in Thousands of Things We Cannot See
God is never doing just one thing in what He does with us. He is always doing thousands of things that we cannot see. He never has only one purpose in what He does. He always has thousands of purposes in everything He does. He is infinitely wise, and everything He does relates to everything else that He does sooner or later. For those who love Him and are called according to His purpose, all of them — all of them! — work together for good.
John Piper, You Will Never Be Thirsty Again
The Church Is a Spiritual Workshop
The local church, therefore, may be viewed as a spiritual workshop for the development of agape love. Thus the stresses and strains of a spiritual fellowship offer the ideal situation for the testing and maturing [of love]…. The local congregation is one of the very best laboratories in which individual believers may discover their real spiritual emptiness and begin to grow in agape love.
Cultural Christianity
You cannot be a Christian on your own terms. That is Cultural Christianity. You must be a Christian on God’s terms. That is Biblical Christianity. The former is counterfeit; the latter is authentic.
Patrick Morley, Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror, p. 81
Life Is Worship 