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“We desperately need to explore how much of our understanding of the gospel is American and how much is biblical.”

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Every saved person this side of heaven owes the gospel to every lost person this side of hell.

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He (Jesus) came so that we might receive new life through supernatural regeneration.

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The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus…

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Some people think that if they will do certain things, they will somehow earn the favor of God, but this misses the whole point…

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What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

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May even the concept of unreached peoples be totally intolerable to us.

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“Disciples like Peter, Andrew, James, and John show us that the call to follow Jesus is not simply an invitation to pray a prayer;…

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A materialistic world will not be won to Christ by a materialistic church.

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“Note the contrast, however, when you diagnose the problem biblically. The modern-day gospel says, “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your…

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And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

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Instead of trying to conquer sin by working hard to change our actions, we can conquer sin by trusting Christ to change our affections.

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Jesus came to live the life we could not live and to die the death we deserve to die.

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The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply…

Paula Modersohn-Becker

“Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is based on publicly checkable evidence, religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its joy, shouted from the rooftops.’ However, taking Dawkins own advice we ask: where is the evidence that religious faith…

John Lennox

The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical…

Joseph Campbell

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Even Superman's name reflects his creators' biblical knowledge.

Bruce Feiler

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“And I pray mark how he begins: he sets not up trophies to himself, but triumphs in his God-- "I will love thee, O Lord, my strength." As the love of God is the beginning of all our mercies, so love to God should be the end and effect of them all. As the stream leads us to the spring,…

Richard Steele

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

Jon Meacham

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I portray myself as wicked, hoping I will not be regarded as wicked. But I may be wicked in the biblical sense

Errol Flynn

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[John Calvin's] treatment of the person and work of Christ, of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, of prayer and liturgy, of the sacraments, and of the way in which we have an in-built sense of the divine that we suppress to our great sorrow - these are all immense contributions to Christian thought. The same could…

Oliver D. Crisp

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical way. I think it is truer, or in any case, less misleading, to say that God is an old Jew with a white beard whom I love, than to say that God is the ground of…

Frank Moore Cross