“We’re invited not to set out and find God, but to stop running and be found.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“The cross is not a mechanism we use to get to God, but the way God has come to find and raise… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“The extinction of desire stands in stark contrast to the redemption of desire.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Desire Copy Share Image
“No matter how horrendous our actions become, we cannot act upon God so as to change the integrity of his character.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Character Copy Share Image
“The question we’re faced with before the risen Christ is not whether we’ve done a good enough job going out to find… — Joshua Ryan Butler Good enough Copy Share Image
“This is our salvation: to be indwelt by God within us (the Spirit), united to God before us (the Son), and embraced… — Joshua Ryan Butler Life Copy Share Image
“Our problem is not that we’re reaching out for God and he’s refusing to be found. It’s the opposite: God’s reaching out… — Joshua Ryan Butler God love Copy Share Image
“Sacrifice is not something we use to clean ourselves up so God can stand to be with us again. On the contrary,… — Joshua Ryan Butler Sacrifice Copy Share Image
“A moralist looks at Jesus in the desert and immediately jumps to, We need to pony up, try harder, and be faithful… — Joshua Ryan Butler Moralist Copy Share Image
“Now, the Law is good, and God gives it to his people, but God’s primary purpose in bringing Israel to the mountain… — Joshua Ryan Butler Commandments Copy Share Image
“But God beckons from our brokenness, breaks in through the back door, invites us to encounter him in our insecurities, sits in… — Joshua Ryan Butler Grace Copy Share Image
“Jesus is like a host who invites us to sit down at his table, share a meal together, and get to know… — Joshua Ryan Butler Better way Copy Share Image
“One of the problems with the ways we tend to talk about the power of hell is that we shift the blame… — Joshua Ryan Butler Evil Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls us to holiness and justice. Holiness involves dealing with the spark, the poisoned well, the root in our own hearts.… — Joshua Ryan Butler Heaven and earth Copy Share Image
“Jesus contrasts who blesses and curses. The sheep are blessed “by my Father.” We might assume, then, that the goats are inversely… — Joshua Ryan Butler God bless Copy Share Image
“When we reclaim the biblical story of God’s purpose to bless, reconcile, and heal the nations through his international, multiethnic kingdom, the… — Joshua Ryan Butler Bible Copy Share Image
“Jesus’ doctrine of hell levels the playing field. This is one of the things I have come to love about it. It… — Joshua Ryan Butler Allowed God Copy Share Image
“Jesus comes looking not for our trophies, but our scars.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Jesus Copy Share Image
“God has an interesting way of showing his anger; he gives us what we want.” — Joshua Ryan Butler Anger Copy Share Image
“God hates sin. He hates it not because it gets him dirty, but because it alienates us from him and tears apart… — Joshua Ryan Butler Hates Copy Share Image
“Jesus calls us to the way of the cross. The cross is not a way we break out of the world to… — Joshua Ryan Butler Religion Copy Share Image
“If God’s love is not the primary thing we see displayed at the cross, like fireworks exploding in the sky, then we’re… — Joshua Ryan Butler Love Copy Share Image
“In the caricature, God creates hell in order to torture sinners. But in the biblical story, we are the authors of hell’s… — Joshua Ryan Butler Copy Share Image
“One wonders whether the loss of such ceremony has contributed to the Western world’s exaltation of the autonomous individual over the world—no… — Joshua Ryan Butler Ecological Consequence Copy Share Image
“God is on a mission, as we have seen throughout this book, to reconcile the world. That is, to reconcile heaven and… — Joshua Ryan Butler Books Copy Share Image
“This theme is central to the gospel: our future hope is for that day when the kingdoms of this world have become… — Joshua Ryan Butler Christianity Copy Share Image
“Both good and evil hang from the tree of knowledge of good and evil; the problem is that they are on the… — Joshua Ryan Butler Compassion Copy Share Image
