“16‘You didn’t choose me. I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that would last. Then the father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command to you: love one… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“But Jesus is talking about God becoming king in order to explain the things he himself is doing. He isn’t pointing away from himself… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“And if we believe it, and pray, as he taught us, for God’s kingdom to come on earth as in heaven, there is no… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“The gospels offer us not so much a different kind of human, but a different kind of God: a God who, having made humans… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“Learning to believe what doesn’t at the moment feel true is an essential part of being a Christian,” — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“16‘You didn’t choose me. I chose you, and I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that would last. Then the father will… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“There is no shame in spirit-trouble; it’s what you get when you’re a footwasher, a generous-love person, open to deep friendship and to the… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“Getting A’s in school is useless if you don’t get a profitable skill.” — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“All the functions of the Temple – festival, presence, priesthood, and now sacrifice – have devolved onto Jesus. This is the heart of John’s… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“We are all different, and as the old Puritans said, God does not break all hearts in the same way. But it is a… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
“For Mark, all the signs are that he was thinking, as many other early Christians were in his day, of the term ‘God’s son’… — Tom Wright Copy Share Image
