“Many of the background beliefs that our culture presses on us about Christianity . . . are not presented to us explicitly by argument. Rather, they are absorbed through the stories and themes of entertainment and social media. They are assumed to be simply ‘the way things are.’ “- Timothy Keller Timothy Keller concludes his […]
“The key to that right relationship [with God] is His righteousness. . . . Religion is spelled do — it’s all about what you do for God. Christianity is spelled done — it’s all about what Christ accomplished on the cross for you.”- Mark Batterson As Mark Batterson moves on in Chapter 15 of Please […]
“For Christianity is a fighting religion. . . . It . . . thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again.”- C. S. Lewis, “The Rival Concepts of God,” in Mere Christianity Timothy Keller […]
“Many of us confuse proximity to Jesus with intimacy. God did not send his Son into the world so we could have something else to do on Sundays. Jesus came because apart from him all life’s experiences, successes, failures, and memoires are merely temporal, insignificant in the light of eternity and therefore illusory and figments […]
“Christianity is meant to sit in the context of community, for it’s in community that we draw the grace needed to do what God has called us to do and to become what God has called us to become.”- Banning Liebscher “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or a sister is a […]