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“The Latin hybrida, literally translated, is just that, a mongrel, the offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar. When the wild bull of American ambition is bred with a tame Christianity with no cross, the result is mongrel spirituality – a “Christian” with both the image of God and the crucified Savior lost ...
Calling vs Potential
“Everything in Paul’s letter [to the Ephesians] is designed to keep God’s calling (chapters 1-3) and our walking (chapters 4-6) in equilibrium. We cannot measure ourselves by examining ourselves in terms of ourselves, by evaluating ourselves against a non-relational abstraction such as ‘human potential’. Now can we abstract God into an impersonal ‘truth’ set apart ...
Worship – Practice Resurrection
“One of the common dismissals of worship is that it is, well, so common. It is boring, nothing happens – ‘I don’t get anything out of it.’ And so well-meaning people decide to put adrenaline in it.” -Peterson, Practice Resurrection, page 37. Love it!
Practice Resurrection
Mark and I are reading Practice Resurrection by Eugene Peterson right now and I am LOVING IT. Peterson is not only extremely insightful, but he is so quotable. So what follows over the next few weeks will be quotes from his book as I am reading it. Enjoy!
