Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder. - N. T. Wright
Tolerance is a cheap, low-grade parody of love. Tolerance is not a great virtue to aspire to. Love is much tougher and harder.
- N. T. Wright
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God. - N. T. Wright
It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God.
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, wr… - N. T. Wright
What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, wr…
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet. - N. T. Wright
Those in whom the Spirit comes to live are God's new Temple. They are, individually and corporately, places where heaven and earth meet.
Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved - N. T. Wright
Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God. - N. T. Wright
The cross is the surest, truest and deepest window on the very heart and character of the living and loving God.
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth. - N. T. Wright
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth.
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heav… - N. T. Wright
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heav…
The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists f… - N. T. Wright
The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists f…
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