Easter means that Christmas worked.
Interpretation
Easter symbolizes the fulfillment of Christmas, representing hope and resurrection.
In this quote, Timothy Keller emphasizes the theological significance of Easter in relation to Christmas. He suggests that the events celebrated during Christmas—the birth of Jesus—find their ultimate meaning and purpose in the resurrection celebrated during Easter, implying that the hope and promise of new life come from the Christmas narrative.
In practice
During a sermon about the significance of the Easter holiday.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,'I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I'm signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It's going to be hard but I want to get there.
Only in Jesus Christ do we see how the untamable, infinite God can become a baby and a loving Savior. On the cross we see how both the love and the holiness of God can be fulfilled at once.
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
While your character flaws may have created mild problems for other people, they will create major problems for your spouse and your marriage.
To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.
God's Kingdom is "present in its beginnings, but still future in its fullness. This guards us from an under-realized eschatology (expecting no change now) and an over-realized eschatology (expecting all change now). In this stage, we embrace the reality that while we're not yet what we will be, we're also no longer what we used to be.
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
I often think of the image only I can see now, and of which I’ve never spoken. It’s always there, in the same silence, amazing. It’s the only image of myself I like, the only one in which I recognize myself, in which I delight
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