“If Jesus had merely proclaimed, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life,” the religious leaders could have responded, “We know! That’s why God rescued us out of Egypt and gave us the Torah to guide us!”… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“while conversations about God are good, and discussions about love are helpful, and interactions that focus on peace and joy and faith are all… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“being “in Christ” says more about me than my nationality, my ethnicity, my gender, or my status. It is an identity of complete intimacy.… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“The word for religion that James uses here is threskeia, and like our English word religion, it can be used positively or negatively. Threskeia primarily refers to the external behaviors of a religion, including the ceremonies and rituals. So James is saying that the religious rituals of Christ-followers are no longer things like memorizing religious liturgies, attending religious services, going… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share
“Jesus-followers should always be ready to die for a cause but never willing to kill for one. THE” — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“As we continue in the story of the Bible after Genesis 3, we read again and again about humankind’s needless struggle to bridge the… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“The Jesus of the Bible lives by a simple philosophy: If love guides our hearts, rules become redundant. Love, embraced as a guiding orientation… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not a painting to be looked at, but a window to be looked through, and through that window we see Jesus.” — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“If Jesus is Lord, then Caesar is not, politics are not, power is not, economics are not, religion is not, fame is not, fashion… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“Let’s be honest: our world offers us mixed signals about what kind of Force is at work behind the scenes.” — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“if we can list the attributes that cause God to love us, what happens if we lose those attributes?” — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
“If Jesus had merely proclaimed, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life,” the religious leaders could have responded, “We know!… — Bruxy Cavey Copy Share Image
