“Some have argued that the supreme miracle of Christianity is not the resurrection of Christ from the dead but the incarnation. . . . Of all the things Christianity proclaims, this is the most staggering.”- Timothy Keller “All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: ‘The virgin will conceive […]
“Suffering exposes the danger of self-reliance. It reminds us that we were not designed to live independently but in dependence on God and others.”- Paul David Tripp As Paul David Tripp concludes Chapter 2 of Suffering, he lists the fifth through seventh things that deepen our pain. 5. Pride. Here Pastor Tripp means the pride […]
The Law of the Itch: “No one ever made an itch go away by getting really good at scratching.”- John Ortberg’s grandmother “Men have succeeded in accumulation a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky In Chapter 17 (More Will Never Be Enough”) of When the Game […]