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Many people in our community protect themselves from inconvenience as though inconvenience is deadly. We have decided that we are not inconvenienced by inconvenience. The needs of children come up unexpectedly. We are sure that the Good Samaritan had other plans that fateful day. Our plans are not sacred” (p. 126). ↗

— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

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When it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do, rather, before the question is raised, it has done the deed, and keeps on doing it ↗

— Martin Luther

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A theology that cannot be sung is not worth having.... Authentic Christian faith is not merely believed. Nor is it merely acted upon. It is sung - with utter joy sometimes, in uncontrollable tears sometimes, but it is sung. ↗

— Reggie M. Kidd

#song #theology #faith

It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#doubt #faith #faith

Any situation, circumstance or challenge is just a distraction and as you remain true to your goals and trust in God they will fall away". ↗

— Michele Woolley

#faith #favor #miracles #self-esteem #self-help

If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus ↗

— Rob Bell

#god #religon #faith

God is writing His story on the pages of our lives. ↗

— Rick Anderson

#faith #grace #hope #inspirational #faith

The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity. ↗

— D.A. Carson

#historic-christian-orthodoxy #philosophy-of-preaching #faith

One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can’t hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like “all that”. We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody’s bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won’t let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you’ll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal. ↗

— Shellie Rushing Tomlinson

#jesus #jesus-christ #prayer #faith

Reckless predictions of the second coming of Christ create an artificial excitement among believers followed by a corresponding depression. In addition, it hardens skeptics in their unbelief and provides new fodder for cynics to mock the Christian faith. ↗

— Doug Batchelor

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