“God does great things through the greatly broken. It’s not the strength of the vessel that matters; it’s the strength of the One that can use it. You are not the sum of your sins. You are the sum of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection.”- Max Lucado “For we are the aroma of Christ to […]
“Jonah wants a God of his own making. . . . When the real God — not Jonah’s counterfeit — keeps showing up, Jonah is thrown into fury or despair. Jonah finds the real God to be an enigma because he cannot reconcile the mercy of God with his justice.”- Timothy Keller “The men of […]
“All glimmers and resources are reminders of the with-ness and witness of a God who loves us madly. . . . Whether goodness comes through common or specific grace, it is a form of tangible hope.”- Aundi Kolber “Resurrection is in our cells.”- Ryan Kuja, therapist “And hope does not put us to shame, because […]
“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 […]
“Hands up to heaven/ Make a joyful noise/ My heart had to hit the floor/ To find all I’m longin’ for/ But I know you’re so much more/ Than a joyful noise.”- Matt Maher, Joyful Noise “But be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making […]
“The resurrection and new creation, then, have a major influence on the Christian’s understanding of how to regard the various forms of decay we see around us in creation now. One of the ways that nature ‘groans’ under decay is in unjust relationships. Christians are not to be passive in the face of injustice. . […]
“Belief in the historicity of the resurrection, however, can change you wholly — but not through intellectual assent alone. It is only by meeting the risen Lord personally and uniting with him by faith that we are changed.”- Timothy Keller “Now Mary stood outside of the tomb crying. . . . She turned around and […]
“The vindication of resurrection is both the reversal and the result of the condemnation of the crucifixion. The darkness of Good Friday brings about the sunrise of Easter. This is how God works. This is the Great Reversal of history and the New Testament bears witness to it throughout.”- Timothy Keller “And being found in […]
“The gospels claim that the very first witnesses of the resurrection were women. Since women in that patriarchal culture were not allowed to give evidence in court, there would be no plausible reason that the gospel writers would have invented them. The only historically plausible reason that women could have been recorded as seeing the […]
“The biblical word elpida, translated as the weaker English word hope, means profound certainty. Christians view even the hardest circumstances as part of a history guided by God at every turn toward not merely some kind of afterlife but toward the resurrection of our bodies and souls into a new, remade heaven and earth.”- Timothy […]
“Death, pandemics, injustice, social breakdown – we again desperately need a stone of hope. And there is no greater hope possible than to believe that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead. . . . If you grasp this great fact of history, then even if you find things going dark, this hope becomes a […]
“Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.”- Lysa TerKeurst “Very truly I tell you, you will weep and mourn while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy. . . . Now is your time of grief, but I will see you […]