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Stepping In

May 8, 2022 | Michael Kuehn

“The persons within God exalt each other, commune with each other, and defer to one another…. Each divine person harbors the others at the center of his being. In constant movement of overture and acceptance, each person envelops and encircles the others…. God’s interior life overflows with regard for others.” 

Cornelius Plantinga

“How do we relate to him now? How, where, and when is this loving relationship practically played out? The answer is in corporate worship. This is exactly what corporate worship is: the interaction between a groom and his bride. Corporate worship is the dialogue that takes place between two who love each other and take delight in each other’s presence.” 

Steve Klingbeil

We will dance on the streets that are golden
The glorious bride and the great Son of Man
Let every tongue and tribe and nation
Rejoice in the song of the Lamb

“We Will Dance,” David Ruis

The Disappointing, Disenchanting, and Dearly-loved Bride of Christ

March 7, 2021 | David Speakman

“To be in Christ, is, by definition, to be part of something much bigger, more comprehensive, and more wonderful than you.”

Rankin Wilbourne

“Membership in a local church means joining your imperfect self to many other imperfect selves to form an imperfect community that, through Jesus, embarks on a journey toward a better future . . . together.”

Scott Sauls

“He can no longer have God for his father, who has not the church for his mother.”

Cyprian of Carthage

Redeeming the Time

June 28, 2020 | David Speakman

12 So teach us to number our days
    that we may get a heart of wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord! How long?
    Have pity on your servants!
14 Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love,
    that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us,
    and for as many years as we have seen evil.

Psalm 90:12-15

How to Battle When the War is Won

September 9, 2018 | David Speakman

“There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.”

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“Though sin wars, it shall not reign; and though it breaks our peace, it cannot separate from his love. Nor is it inconsistent with his holiness and perfection, to manifest his favor to such poor defiled creatures, or to admit them to communion with himself; for they are not considered as in themselves, but as one with Jesus, to whom they have fled for refuge, and by whom they live by faith.”

John Newton

“My friend, if you think of your Christian life … with this sense of grudge, or as a wearisome task or duty, I tell you to go back to the beginning of your life, retrace your steps to the wicket gate through which you passed. Look at the world in its evil and sin, look at the hell to which it was leading you, and then look forward and realize that you are set in the midst of the most glorious campaign into which a man could ever enter, and that you are on the noblest road that the world has ever known.”

M. Lloyd-Jones

Working for God

September 2, 2018 | David Speakman

“Let the Church remember this: that every maker and worker is called to serve God in his profession or trade – not outside of it.  The Apostles complained rightly when they said it was not right they should leave the word of God and serve tables; their vocation was to preach the word.  But the person whose vocation it is to prepare the meals beautifully might with equal justice protest: It is not right for us to leave the service of our tables to preach the word.”

Dorothy Sayers

“Power is for flourishing – teeming, fruitful, multiplying abundance.  Power creates and shapes an environment where creatures can flourish . . . Image bearing is for power . . . image bearing is for flourishing.  The image bearers do not exist for their own flourishing alone, but to bring the whole creation to its fulfillment. Why is power a gift? Because power is for flourishing.  When power is used well, people and the whole cosmos come more alive to what they were meant to be. And flourishing is the test of power . . . In enslavement, one human being asserts unlimited power over another, an assertion that requires not just the inflation of the slave owner’s power to unholy, godlike levels, but the eradication of the slave’s power.”

Andy Crouch, Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power

“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant . . .”

Philippians 2: 5-7

Being a Family by the Power of the Spirit

August 19, 2018 | David Speakman

“Discipline is like a vaccine. It inflicts lesser pain now to avoid greater pain later.”

Dan Doriani, The Life of a God-Made Man

“There’s one more voice you may need to adjust. It’s the voice in your head whispering, There’s not enough. Not enough resources, spots in the best schools, teacher’s attention, opportunities, friends who will provide the right type of influence. Not enough hours in the day, funds in the account, time to protect the planet, chances to do things over. Fear of scarcity is alive and blooming inside the minds of most parents. That’s what sends their voices into the pinched and panicky zone. Fear is behind the rushing, hovering, chiding, and pleading that sours our conversations with our children . . .   For as long as I have practiced therapy with families, parents have been worried about scarcity . . . Relinquish the fear and you open a door to enchantment.”

Wendy Mogel, Voice Lessons, 4.

“Salvation is  . . . membership in the family of God . . .The creation of a family with children is the reason for all of God’s activity.  This is how he intends to show his glory . . . Our sonship to God is the apex of creation and the goal of redemption . . . The story of Paradise lost becoming Paradise regained is the story of God’s grace bringing us from alienation from him to membership in his family . . . Our self-image, if it is to be biblical, will begin just here. God is my Father (the Christian’s self-image always begins with the knowledge of God and who he is!); I am one of his children (I know my real identity); his people are my brothers and sisters (I recognize the family to which I belong and have discovered my deepest ‘roots’).”

Sinclair Ferguson

Marriage by the Power of the Spirit

August 12, 2018 | David Speakman

“The Bible doesn’t say that men and women are unequal. Neither does the church. There are not second-class citizens in the New Jerusalem. It is husbands and wives that are unequal . . . And the difference there is not one of worth, ability or intelligence, but of role. It is functional, not organic.  It is based on the exigencies of the Dance, not on a judgment as to talent. In the ballet, in any intricate dance, one dancer leads, the other follows. Not because one is better (he may or may not be), but because that is his part. Our mistake, here as elsewhere, is to think that equality and diversity are irreconcilable. The common notion of equality is based on the image of the march. In a parade, really unequal beings are dressed alike, given guns of identical length, trained to hold them at the same angle, and ordered to keep step with a fixed beat. But it is not the parade that is true to life; it is the dance. There you have real equals assigned unequal roles in order that each may achieve their individual perfection in the whole. Nothing is less personal than a parade; nothing more so than a dance. It is the choice image of fulfillment through function, and it comes very close to the heart of the Trinity. Marriage is a hierarchical game played by co-equal persons. Keep that paradox and you move in the freedom of the Dance; alter it, and you grow weary with marching.”

Robert Farrar Capon

“Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes, in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But, the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Marriage is a great institution . . . but I ain’t ready for an institution yet.”

Mae West

Wisdom is Not a Fish That You Can Catch

August 5, 2018 | Ethan Smith

“Christianity is a life to be lived and not a mere philosophy or point of view.”

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Life in the Spirit

“Dramatic, life-altering moments come only a few times during our lifetime—that’s why they’re dramatic. The rest of our lives are lived in the common, ordinary mundane. …  Dirty dishes in the sink is not just a worrisome ordeal in your otherwise uneventful day. It’s an opportunity to see glimpses of grace.”

Gloria Furman, “God Rules the Mundane”

“you bear the weight of all our grief
uncertainty and unbelief
oh, you restore our sanity
so we raise our voice
we raise an offering
would you come near
and quench our thirst
oh, lift our hearts
as the spirit bears the curse”

Derek Webb, “The Spirit Bears the Curse”

“To be joyful is to expect that life will reveal itself as God’s gift of grace …. To be joyful means to look out for opportunities for gratitude. … Indeed, it is really when the Holy Spirit comes and is present that one experiences true joy.”

Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics

Flourishing in Babylon

July 22, 2018 | David Speakman

“Many evangelicals act like they are still living in Jerusalem or Samaria. Consider, for example, the issue of . . . taking personal offense at the behavior and language of unbelievers. If I go to see a movie in Babylon, should I not expect the film to reflect Babylonian beliefs and values? As a Christian, I may disagree strongly with those beliefs and find the values utterly contrary to God’s law, but surely that should not be surprising. Nor, if I am living in exile in Babylon, does it make sense to be offended that Babylonians act like Babylonians, or that they fail to make films that reflect the beliefs and values of Jerusalem . . . It is hard to live in exile, hard to be surrounded by people who do not share our deepest convictions. It is much easier to be reactionary in Babylon, and more satisfying, too, because being offended by them makes us feel so very righteous. Besides, it is disappointing to be stuck in Babylon when what we really want is to live in Jerusalem. It is hard work to find creative and winsome ways to translate the gospel into terms they will understand. It requires discipline to develop skill in discernment, and single-mindedness to nurture biblical literacy in the midst of busyness that presses in on us. It takes time and energy – and perhaps a great deal of study and thinking – to give honest answers to honest questions . . . It takes perseverance to love sinners whose sin we find repugnant, and  humility to remember that our sin seems less wicked only because it is ours . . . Seeing ourselves as living in exile will help us better understand what that faithfulness consists of.”

– Denis Haack

“The world is drowning in its efforts at life; it does not need lifeguards who swim to it carrying barbells.”

– Robert Farrar Capon

Irresistible Holiness

July 15, 2018 | David Speakman

How little people know who think that holiness is dull. When one meets the real thing, it is irresistible.”

– C.S. Lewis

“The sin I once feared to lose became a delight to dismiss. You turned them out and took their place, pleasanter than any pleasure.”

– Augustine

“The deepest word that can be spoken about sanctification is that it is a progress towards true humanity. Salvation is, essentially considered, the restoration of humanity to men . . . The greatest saints of God have been characterized, not by haloes and an atmosphere of distant unapproachability, but by their humanity. They have been intensely human and lovable people with a twinkle in their eyes.”

– James Phillips

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