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The therapeutic—that God wants to endorse my life and keep me happy—is contrasted with kenosis, which makes life not about the therapeutic but about the ministerial.
Andrew Root • Faith Formation in a Secular Age : Volume 1 (Ministry in a Secular Age): Responding to the Church's Obsession with Youthfulness
Sin is complicated. We are never a passive observer, dispensing wisdom and justice. We are part of the mess. My solution to the problem made it more complex. That’s why we can’t afford to do anything on our own.
David Powlison • A Praying Life
He is a sorrowful man, but he is not morose.
David Martyn Lloyd-Jones • Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
to live as the beloved self-in-God is to be about the belovedness of others.
Drew Moser • The Enneagram of Discernment: The Way of Vocation, Wisdom, and Practice
Healing the heart is our Father’s imperative work and our introduction to training. Training? Yes, training, learning to experience being a Beloved Son. In the midst of battle, the enemy counts on a man never experiencing that he is a Beloved Son. Lack of this aspect of training makes for a far easier fight for our enemy and a continued small-story
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Experience and Apply
Brandon Guindon • Intentional
A pastor confident of the Bible’s truth is able to preach with great force or with great gentleness and still speak with authority.
Bryan Chapell • Christ-Centered Preaching
To grow toward friendship with God, we must see the world as he sees it.