Quotes of: Jesus-christ Keyword

Dove found Flower waiting outside her apartment. Flower was staring at her Doc Martins and in a very slow-motion move; she looked up at Dove. “Jesus!” Flower’s eyes were wide and her mouth stayed open. Dove wanted to ask, “Bad Jesus or good J...

Fire Down Below

The picture of love and truth together is in Jesus. The challenge is to resist the temptation to think in terms of a mixture or recipe: 50% love and 50% truth. The historic creeds affirm Jesus as fully God AND fully human, and likewise with love and ...

Becoming Love. Avoiding Common Forms of Christian Insanity

The authors of the gospels, like all writers in all time periods, either reference information they have at hand – including things they’ve heard or read – or they make things up. . . For reference material, the author of Mark relied not on Jes...

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Understanding points Jesus presented to his peers requires exploring how Jews, local Greeks, Romans and other ethnic mixes inhabiting the region perceived reality. Without a clear recognition of the common ancient mindset, regard for precepts present...

The Illusion of "Truth": The Real Jesus Behind the Grand Myth

Only Jesus would be crazy enough to suggest that if you want to become the greatest, you should become the least. Only Jesus would declare God's blessing on the po0r rather than on the rich and would insist that it's not enough to just love your frie...

The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.

Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

Jesus is not your accuser. He’s not your prosecutor. He’s not your judge. He’s your friend and your rescuer. Like Zacchaeus, just spend time with Jesus. Don’t hide from him in shame or reject him in self-righteousness. Don’t allow the opini...

Jesus Is _______.: Find a New Way to Be Human

When Jesus put on flesh, He made human existence “sacred.” Thus, when you are inhabited by Jesus through His Holy Spirit, your life takes on the “sacred” characteristic as well. This does not mean that you become God or incapable of sinning l...

Journaling: Catalyzing Spiritual Growth Through Reflection

Excuses will become self-refuting. No man who does not believe that Jesus is the perfect, sinless Son of God can, in his desperation and love for sin, reasonably use and misconstrue Jesus' words that unless a Christian is perfect, then that Christian...

Killosophy

If contemporary Christians took seriously the possibility that those outside the boundaries of the church might hold the promise of renewal, if we ceased regarding ourselves as the source of salvation and the secular world as a potential threat, and ...

Sinners: Jesus and His Earliest Followers

Jesus-shaped spirituality hears Jesus say "believe and repent," but the call that resonates most closely in the heart of a disciple is "follow me." The command to follow requires that we take a daily journey in the company of other students. It deman...

Mere Churchianity: Finding Your Way Back to Jesus-Shaped Spirituality

Jesus designed the Lord's prayer to reveal His desire to give us more fully, graciously, and suitably the very things we most want but seek elsewhere. He does not want to deny us our desires but helps remove the false objects of our affections so tha...

Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus' Name

This is the picture of a woman cast in the role of a learner, a pupil, even a rabbinic student. Quite obviously this is a prohibited role for women in those days and in that culture. Yet Jesus affirms Mary in that role. Martha, however, rebukes her. ...

John Shelby Spong

Lieutenant Daniel Taylor: That's what all these cripples down at the VA talk about: Jesus this and Jesus that, have I found Jesus yet? They even had a priest come and talk to me. He said God is listening and if I found Jesus, I'd get to walk beside h...

Forrest Gump

Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters.

The Cost of Discipleship

Poor Mary. They married her to Jesus, and Jesus is an asexual circumcised revolutionary. What future is there to be had in that scenario?

Carnival: A Novel

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

God's Forever Family: The Jesus People Movement in America

Misunderstanding must be nakedly exposed before true understanding can begin to flourish.

The Bible Jesus Read

It is true that we need to make a onetime decision to follow Jesus. But a true onetime decision is followed by the everyday decision to Jesus.

Am I Really a Christian?

You don’t need a Master’s in Theology to love people.

It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church

Ask the question, receive the answer; don't ask the question, don't receive the answer.

It's All About Jesus: What They Never Told You in Church