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Paul David Tripp • New Morning Mercies
Not as a leader of armies, not as the conqueror of Caesars, but as a victim the Messiah had come.
Tom Holland • Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
The sufferer goes all the way down to death, and somehow he is rescued, not only for his own sake, but also so that YHWH’s “kingdom,” that is, his sovereignty over the nations, might become a reality.
N. T. Wright • How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
I believe that the hardest thing for people to grasp in the Christian faith is that salvation is of the Lord. It is God who saves. The story of Abraham leaves no doubt about this. Abraham and Sarah’s son, Isaac, was born completely through the power of God. God brought the descendants of Abraham into the Promised Land. The book of Joshua is replete
... See moreR. C. Sproul • The Promises of God
“Then I fell at his feet and thought, Surely this is the hour of death, for the Lion (who is worthy of all honour) will know that I have served Tash all my days and not him. Nevertheless, it is better to see the Lion and die than to be Tisroc of the world and live and not to have seen him. But the Glorious One bent down his golden head and touched
... See moreIf, like the elder brother, you believe that God ought to bless you and help you because you have worked so hard to obey him and be a good person, then Jesus may be your helper, your example, even your inspiration, but he is not your Savior. You are serving as your own Savior.
Timothy Keller • The Prodigal God
This is the secret of Christian victory; this the place where we must come before we can be overcomers. This is the meaning of that sublime announcement of the Apostle: "Thanks be unto God who always leads us in triumph in Christ Jesus." It is not "that causes us to triumph." We are not the victors, but
A. B. Simpson • The Life and Works of A. B. Simpson, 50-in-1
The reason for this persistent story line in the Bible is not simply because the writers like underdogs. It is because the ultimate example of God’s working in the world was Jesus Christ, the only founder of a major religion who died in disgrace, not surrounded by all of his loving disciples but abandoned by everybody whom he cared about, including
... See moreTimothy Keller • Making Sense of God: Finding God in the Modern World
His great Christ-figure, Frodo the hobbit, brought about the salvation of middle earth precisely through his entry into the heart of the land of Mordor, disempowering that terribleplace through his humble willingness to hear the full weight of its burden.