Quotes of: Gospels Keyword

The law is God's first word; the gospel is God's final word.

Tullian Tchividjian

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

Donald Miller

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

James Lovelock

I'm in the booth and first of all, I'm from Germany and I had never heard a gospel in my life.

Boris Kodjoe

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

Chan Kilgore

I don't want people to get confused. I'm not going to be putting out a gospel album.

Ja Rule

There is no such thing as a "just" war. It's just war. And it's antithetical to the Gospel.

David D. Flowers

Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.

Dionne Warwick

What was true of an ancient community of Christian believers struggling with a powerful and appealing philosophy is also true for Christians in a postmodern context. Arguments that deconstruct the regimes of truth at work in the late modern culture o...

Colossians Remixed: Subverting the Empire

Judas said, "Master, as you have listened to all of them, now also listen to me. For I have seen a great vision." And when Jesus heard this, he laughed and said to him, "You thirteenth daimon, why do you try so hard? But speak up, and I shall bear wi...

The Gospel of Judas Together with the Letter of Peter to Phillip, James, and a Book of Allogenes from Codex Tchacos

There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of t...

Holy Clues: The Gospel According to Sherlock Holmes

All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you...

And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John

We forget the gospel when we neglect our adoption and think that we're still just a hired servant. The Father doesn't let us come to him on those terms. We will either come as sons or we will stay with the pigs. He won't let us earn anything from him...

Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life

To ignore, repress, or dismiss our feelings is to fail to listen to the stirrings of the Spirit within our emotional life. Jesus listened. In John's Gospel we are told that Jesus was moved with the deepest emotions (11:33)... The gospel portrait of t...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and wome...

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

And Grace calls out, 'You are not just a disillusioned old man who may die soon, a middle-aged woman stuck in a job and desperately wanting to get out, a young person feeling the fire in the belly begin to grow cold. You may be insecure, inadequate, ...

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to...

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Rather than attack the Christian faith directly, many films undermine foundational Christian principles, including the human need for salvation. These films present a false "gospel" that leads people away from the truth. Recognizing these messages in...

The Message Behind the Movie: How to Engage With a Film Without Disengaging Your Faith

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and s...

Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth at Bethlehem to be understood as historical fact. Luke would have had no idea what we in the modern world even me...

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

Everlasting Righteousness