“There are gifts hidden in suffering that can be redeemed only in the experience. . . . Compassion, which literally means ‘suffering with,’ may feel like the most futile kind of suffering. It changes nothing. It hold no hope of changing anything. Yet to be compassionate is to see with a God’s-eye view.”- Desmond Tutu, […]
Mark Batterson continues his discussion of Romans 8:28 in Chapter 21 of If by referring to that verse as Scripture’s Rosetta Stone: “The twenty-eighth verse of the eighth chapter of Romans is the Rosetta stone of Scripture. Without it, much of life makes no sense whatsoever. With it, we’re able to decipher our experiences.” In […]
“And if we want life that isn’t driven by our past hurts, we must squeeze ourselves onto a tiny dirt road and trust that it will lead us somewhere good.”- Matt Bays “But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”- Matthew 7:14 (NIV) In […]
“And so it seems that the very word redeemed needs its own personal redemption.”- Matt Bays As Matt Bays concludes Chapter 1 of Finding God in the Ruins, he expresses his belief that redemption has been misunderstood. Pastor Bays offers his own personal take on how modern Christianity has defined the term: Redemption (n). A […]