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Arthur F. Miller Jr. writes: “Understand that you are God’s idea. You will be held accountable for using what he gave you to work with.”4
Erik Rees • S.H.A.P.E.: Finding and Fulfilling Your Unique Purpose for Life
God has created us for himself and our hearts are designed to find their end in him, yet many spend their days restlessly craving rival gods, frenetically pursuing rival kingdoms.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Taylor, who affirms the genius of Durkheim but turns him against himself, shows with this triad how the social function of religion adds to the opaqueness of divine action.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Some of the most recognizable evidential apologists of our time include John Warwick Montgomery
Joseph M. Holden • The Comprehensive Guide to Apologetics
They investigate the past and relate the struggles of the apostles and the Fathers to our present struggles. Thus they become defenders of the faith, showing its reasonableness, its “fittingness” for the oppressed community now.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
Most merciful God, we confess that we have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done, and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us; th
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The “ages” triad is the movement from what Taylor calls the ancien régime to the age of mobilization to the age of authenticity.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
That desire to see a changed world must be allowed to find its connection to the desire for one another.