“Worship” was and is a matter of gazing with delight, gratitude, and love at the creator God and expressing his praise in… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“[Jesus] is, at the moment, present with us, but hidden behind that invisible veil which keeps heaven and earth apart, and which… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Called to responsibility and authority within and over the creation, humans have turned their vocation upside down, giving worship and allegiance to… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The Christian vocation is to be in prayer, in the Spirit, at the place where the world is in pain, and as… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Put it this way: if your idea of God, if your idea of the salvation offered in Christ, is vague or remote,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author extols the power of having significant portions of God's Word read in public worship with the following analogy. He says… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This means that the church, the followers of Jesus Christ, live in the bright interval between Easter and the final great consummation. Let's make… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The very mention of crucifixion was taboo in polite Roman circles, since it was the lowest form of capital punishment, reserved for slaves and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Sunday, kept as a commemoration of Easter ever since that event itself (a quite remarkable phenomenon when you come to think about it), is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The point of trying to understand the cross better is not so that we can congratulate ourselves for having solved an intellectual crossword puzzle,… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“there is no such thing as a god’s-eye view (by which would be meant a Deist god’s-eye view) available to human beings, a point… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The “goal” is not “heaven,” but a renewed human vocation within God’s renewed creation. This is what every biblical book from Genesis on is… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“having a hard enough time explaining to his disciples that he had to die; they never really grasped that at all, and they certainly… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“If we are talking about the victory over evil and the launch of new creation, it won’t make much sense unless we are working… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“The personal message of Good Friday, expressed in so many hymns and prayers which draw on the tradition of the Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53)… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“To recognize that the Psalms call us to pray and sing at the intersections of the times--of our time and God's time, of the… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because one is going to need it. A temptation… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Blessings on the poor in spirit! The kingdom of heaven is yours” (Matt. 5:3) doesn’t mean, “You will go to heaven when you die.”… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
