Jesus Crucified...

The one thing we have to do is exhibit Jesus Christ crucified.

~ Oswald Chambers

It's About the Cross

So the main question is not, which humans brought about the death of Jesus but, What did the death of Jesus bring about for humans - including Jews and Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and nonreligious secularists - and all people everywhere? When it is all said and done, the most crucial question is: Why? Why did Christ suffer and die? Not why in the sense of cause, but why in the sense of purpose? 

~ John Piper

He Is Compassion...

You may call God love; you may call God goodness; but the best name for God is compassion. ~ Meister Eckhart

He Makes Peace...

When our Lord speaks peace, He makes peace.....Have I ever received what Jesus speaks? 

~ Oswald Chambers

One Body...

What demands the Spirit and requires a broken body and shed blood is for people from different generations, different ethnicities, different cultures, different tastes, different political perspectives, and different social standings to gather around the Table of the Lord and become one body. ~ Scott Daniels

Unless HE Shows Up...

Are we willing to do what we must have God for, that unless He shows up, it can't be done?  

~ T. Austin-Sparks

Meaning of the Cross

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning. 

~ Oswald Chambers

Liberty and Lawlessness

Liberty and lawlessness. Who knew that the latter could successfully masquerade as the former?

~ Alicia Britt Chole

Banquet...

God's preparing for a banquet. Make sure you're preparing for a banquet too.

~ Chris Tiegreen

Lenten Practices...

Lenten practices of giving up pleasures are good reminders that the purpose of life is not pleasure. The purpose of life is to attain to perfect life, all truth and undying ecstatic love – which is the definition of God. In pursuing that goal we find happiness. Pleasure is not the purpose of anything; pleasure is a by-product resulting from doing something that is good. One of the best ways to get happiness and pleasure out of life is to ask ourselves, 'How can I please God?' and, 'Why am I not better?' It is the pleasure-seeker who is bored, for all pleasures diminish with repetition. ~ Fulton J. Sheen

Ending...Beginning

Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection. 

~ Watchman Nee

What You Might Have Been...

It's never too late to be what you might have been.

~ George Eliot

In a Box...

I'm a man seeking a box, serving a God who constantly proves that He doesn't fit in one.

~ Tim Walker

Victors... Not Victims

God wants us to be victors, not victims.... to overcome, not to be overwhelmed.

~ William Arthur Ward