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The reality is that, as Anderson is able to reveal from that fabled other side, there is no promised land until the Promised Land of the real heaven. We always think things will finally be . . . well, final when we get “there,” wherever “there” is for us. But there is no there. There’s only here. Because once you get there, there becomes here, and
... See moreJared C. Wilson , Mike Ayers (Foreword) • The Pastor's Justification
“The near enemies depict how spirituality can be misunderstood or misused to separate us from life.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
the deepest response to antinomianism is not “You are under the law” but rather
Sinclair B. Ferguson • The Whole Christ
The church once helped people live the good life in the present (whether multigenerational or generational, the present was long enough for the good life to have content and be open to mystery—to have response and responsibility). Now the good life is lived in the future, not the present.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
“Living Unconverted” Under a Godly Minister
Owen Strachan • Jonathan Edwards on True Christianity (The Essential Edwards Collection Book 4)
John Henry Newman,
Joseph Bottum • An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America
Among serious Christians in congregations today there is a growing desire to meet together with other Christians during the midday break from work for life together under the Word. Life together is again being understood by Christians today as the grace that it is, as the extraordinary aspect, the “roses and lilies” of the Christian life (Luther).