“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 not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.” — Preston Sprinkle Copy Share Image
“when Jesus tells His followers not to resist evil people, He uses a word that suggests a violent resistance. In fact, New Testament scholar N. T. Wright translated the verse “Don’t use violence to resist evil” to remove all ambiguity.6 Put… — 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
