“Already in the Old Testament, God’s love for Israel had been compared to the marital bond (Isa 62:5; Jer 2–3; Ezek 16; Hos 1–3), but here that imagery becomes Christologically specific. It is the love of Christ for the church,… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love—even if it brings suffering. These are… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“for Christians, not every passage in the Bible is equally prescriptive or determinative for a Christian ethical life. Rather, the Old Testament must be… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“the most visible form of Jesus’s not-of-this-world kingdom is the radical, head-turning love of one’s enemies, even (or especially) when we are suffering at… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“describing singleness as “a rare calling,” which is neither a common position in Christian history (at best we may say that most Protestants in… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“genuine relationships are always the best place to start as we seek to integrate our ethical views in the daily life of ministry.” — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“we cannot imagine existing in our culture without the haven of an erotic partnership because our capacity to belong together in more chaste ways… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“The Incarnate One is truly human as well as truly divine, and so properly spoken of as our friend and brother as well as… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“When we buy into the American narrative that focuses on “flesh-and-blood enemies,” we are spraying the tip of the flames, not the source of… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“the New Testament highlights Jesus’s nonviolent response to violence as a pattern to follow more than any other aspect of His ministry.” — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“The New Testament is ubiquitously clear: don’t retaliate with evil for evil; do good to those who hate you; embrace your enemy with a… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“Augustine suggests that in the mutual submission and self-surrender of marriage, and in the openness of the marriage relationship to children, with the demands… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“Already in the Old Testament, God’s love for Israel had been compared to the marital bond (Isa 62:5; Jer 2–3; Ezek 16; Hos 1–3),… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“I wonder how many people have been killed, tortured, and in some cases cannibalized, all because certain Christians (mis)applied the book of Joshua to… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
“Unlike the Old Testament, in which singleness was not a good, the New Testament—or, more properly, the coming of Christ—opens up, for the first… — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share
