Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
Max LucadoRead
Christ lived the life we could not live and took the punishment we could not take to offer the hope we cannot resist.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the belief in Christ's sacrificial role for humanity's redemption and the hope that brings.
This quote by Max Lucado emphasizes the Christian belief that Jesus Christ lived a perfect life and endured suffering on behalf of humanity. It points to the hope and salvation that believers find in His actions, suggesting that this hope is irresistible to those who understand its significance.
In practice
In a sermon about forgiveness and redemption, one might quote Max Lucado to highlight Christ's role in salvation.
Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.
We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.
Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.
Spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of men. Ye. we have been merely playing with it and never have really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day people will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces which have hardly been scratched.
... in practice the standard for what constitutes rape is set not at the level of women's experience of violation but just above the level of coercion acceptable to men.
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
People hear 'Africa' and they think about charitable commercials, or safari tours and animals. It's our responsibility to help change that perspective.
To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.
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