“We’re invited not to set out and find God, but to stop running and be found.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“The extinction of desire stands in stark contrast to the redemption of desire.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Desire Copy Share Image
“Jesus comes looking not for our trophies, but our scars.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Jesus Copy Share Image
“God has an interesting way of showing his anger; he gives us what we want.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Anger Copy Share Image
“God hates sin. He hates it not because it gets him dirty, but because it alienates us from him and tears apart… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“This is our salvation: to be indwelt by God within us (the Spirit), united to God before us (the Son), and embraced… — Joshua Ryan Butler Life Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls us to the way of the cross. The cross is not a way we break out of the world to… — Joshua Ryan Butler Religion Copy Share Image
“The cross is not a mechanism we use to get to God, but the way God has come to find and raise… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“If God’s love is not the primary thing we see displayed at the cross, like fireworks exploding in the sky, then we’re… — Joshua Ryan Butler Cross Copy Share Image
“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Character Copy Share Image
“The question we’re faced with before the risen Christ is not whether we’ve done a good enough job going out to find… — Joshua Ryan Butler Good enough Copy Share Image
“Jesus is like a host who invites us to sit down at his table, share a meal together, and get to know… — Joshua Ryan Butler Better way Copy Share Image
“In the caricature, God creates hell in order to torture sinners. But in the biblical story, we are the authors of hell’s… — Joshua Ryan Butler Hell Copy Share Image
“Our problem is not that we’re reaching out for God and he’s refusing to be found. It’s the opposite: God’s reaching out… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“One wonders whether the loss of such ceremony has contributed to the Western world’s exaltation of the autonomous individual over the world—no… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is not something we use to clean ourselves up so God can stand to be with us again. On the contrary,… — Joshua Ryan Butler Sacrifice Copy Share Image
“A moralist looks at Jesus in the desert and immediately jumps to, We need to pony up, try harder, and be faithful… — Joshua Ryan Butler Moralist Copy Share Image
“But God beckons from our brokenness, breaks in through the back door, invites us to encounter him in our insecurities, sits in… — Joshua Ryan Butler Grace Copy Share Image
“Now, the Law is good, and God gives it to his people, but God’s primary purpose in bringing Israel to the mountain… — Joshua Ryan Butler Commandments Copy Share Image
“God is on a mission, as we have seen throughout this book, to reconcile the world. That is, to reconcile heaven and… — Joshua Ryan Butler Books Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with the ways we tend to talk about the power of hell is that we shift the blame… — Joshua Ryan Butler Evil Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls us to holiness and justice. Holiness involves dealing with the spark, the poisoned well, the root in our own hearts.… — Joshua Ryan Butler Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“This theme is central to the gospel: our future hope is for that day when the kingdoms of this world have become… — Joshua Ryan Butler Christianity Copy Share Image
“Both good and evil hang from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; the problem is that they are on the… — Joshua Ryan Butler Compassion Copy Share Image
“Jesus contrasts who blesses and curses. The sheep are blessed “by my Father.” We might assume, then, that the goats are inversely… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“When we reclaim the biblical story of God’s purpose to bless, reconcile, and heal the nations through his international, multiethnic kingdom, the… — Joshua Ryan Butler Bible Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ doctrine of hell levels the playing field. This is one of the things I have come to love about it. It… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
