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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 20, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The human tendency is to reserve ‘heaven’ for those who think like us, go to the same church, synagogue, temple or mosque – and while the New Testament speaks of Christ-followers being with God forever, it does not do so in an exclusive way. We have no specific indications about who exactly is ‘in’ and what exactly is required of those who will be ‘in’ heaven. We do know that we’re called to trust and believe in Jesus, and to embrace the grace of God. But no lists are provided so that we might identify those who are ‘lost’, as much as some Christians seem to desire to ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 17, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Have you ever attended a funeral that included a viewing of the open casket? What is one of the most frequently heard comments after the viewing? ‘Didn’t he look good?’ I almost always silently scream, ‘No he didn’t. He is dead. Dead does not have anything to do with looking good.’ I suppose the comment is a compliment to the mortician and his staff for their talents in making the corpse look good. Yet that’s exactly what many religious authorities do, make spiritually dead bodies look good by the cosmetic application of physical, external devices...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 15, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The word revelation is translated from the Greek word apokalupsis, which means ‘unveiling’ or ‘revealing.’ In English, apocalypse has come to mean disaster or appalling destruction. Yet the word originally referred to an unfolding or revealing of things that were not generally known. The purpose of the Book of Revelation is not to present a maze of puzzling passages for some clever interpreter to unveil – specific details about future world events that can be unraveled if some human prognosticator provides the key – but rather to reveal the victory of Jesus Christ.”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 13, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The love of God wins and conquers on the cross of Christ. Jesus accepted all violence, hatred and recrimination and absorbed it all – he sucked it all up and forgave it. Like a fire that burns itself out, Jesus consumed all human hatred – all religious fanaticism, all pride and lust – and all devotion to gods other than the one true God and all allegiance to any teaching or beliefs other than Jesus. The act of accepting all violence, hatred and recrimination killed Jesus, humanly, but he rose triumphantly, winning the battle over death and the grave.”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 10, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“I will always remember having lunch with the late D. James Kennedy near his offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (I am writing the original draft of these words on the day he died, September 5, 2007). Dr. Kennedy was the founding pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale and the voice of Coral Ridge Ministries.
Jim related – over lunch… an old joke I had heard before but never tire of, nor it seems, did he. As we discussed legalisms that thrive within Christendom, he could hardly contain his delight as he asked, ‘Do you know why some Christians are against fornication?...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 8, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The Bible is a collection of 66 books, composed by many different authors and editors over many centuries. Many Christ-followers agree that the authors of the Bible were inspired – some in unique and miraculous ways – but the human authors also expressed their own worldviews, personalities and even prejudices and wrote in the culture and milieu in which they lived.”
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, August 2017
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 6, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The Bible is inspired, but God inspired human authors, and he used those human authors, warts and all, to record a message and a story. The Bible did not drop out of heaven – it was written by people. God could have, of course, bypassed humanity and parachuted the Bible out of heaven, but he did not. As a divine-human document of paper and ink, the Bible is not holy nor is it inerrant and infallible.
It is inspired in that God inspired the central teaching and focus of the Bible. Jesus, the theme of the Bible, is infallible and without error, he alone is the Word of God. Jesus alone is ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 3, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“We are not alone. Jesus lives in us and we in him. We remain in Jesus, and he remains in us (John 15:4-7, 9-10)… Jesus doesn’t come to live with us and simply rent a room because he won’t be here that long. He doesn’t check in and check out depending on whether we are pleasing or displeasing him, as religion would have us believe… Jesus doesn’t just come to visit us when we really need his help, checking into a hotel nearby, visiting us, taking care of us, comforting us, and then, when we’re all better, he checks out and moves on to the next assignment. We aren’t just another ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 1, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Does our calling as Christians mean we should escape to a remote area, build a little log cabin, dig a well for fresh water, grow an organic vegetable garden and watch the world go to hell in a handbasket? Are we, as Christians, given the luxury of getting off the playing field of what it means to live in this world but not of it (John 17:14-16), and retiring to the grandstand, watching everyone else deal with the challenges of society and culture?”
Originally published in:
Bad News Religion
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 30, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“As Billy Sunday, an evangelist of an earlier generation in America once said, ‘Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.’ We are placed in the universal body of Christ when we place our trust in Jesus as our Savior and surrender our lives to him. The church isn’t a sacred holding tank for Christians until their death. It is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Many people fail to understand that the church is not a trophy case or a sacred museum where perfect Christianity is displayed. Rather, the church takes place in ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 27, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“When I was in grade school, I had lots of girlfriends. A few of them, usually in a roundabout way, actually found out how I felt about them! Most of them were ‘secret loves’ – that’s the way it was in the olden days. My buddies and I liked girls, but as preteens in the 1950’s, we couldn’t bring ourselves to tell them. We didn’t want to be rejected (and what human of any age does?).
Do you remember that game we used to play when we were kids? If my buddies and I wanted to know how a certain, special girl felt about us, without risking our ego by telling her personally, we would pick a ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 25, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“God loves the entire world – ALL of us. That does not mean he condones all behavior, but he loves all despite our behavior, and not because of what God considers to be ‘good’ behavior.
God allows all of us choices. The evil we see and the problems we face happen because God allows real human choices…
God could stop wrong choices by simply forcing each of us to behave a particular way. But he doesn’t – and never has. But again, despite the choices we all make, God loves ALL of us. This is not to say God agrees with all our choices – many of our choices grieve him, but God ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 23, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“God’s perfect love is not just any kind of love. God’s perfect love is not the kind of love most people think of when they hear the word ‘love’ – not romantic love, not the love of infatuation, not the I’ll-love-you-as-long-as-you-are-lovable-and make-me-happy kind of love.
God’s love is a love without limits. God’s love is a completely selfless kind of love modeled for us in Jesus’ earthly life. God’s love is generated and produced in only one way and by one Source – God. God’s love is unconditional, in-spite-of, not because-of love. God’s perfect love is a ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 20, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The god most people fear, the god who can’t wait to punish and torture you in an eternal hell is not the God of the Bible. That god is the god of religion.”
Originally published in:
Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 1
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 18, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“If we pledge allegiance to Jesus, we will stand up for the rights, privileges and humanity of others – even those who are not like us at all. And because we are free in Christ, we will not allow others to bully us down the slippery path of political or religious conformity – even under banners of one-sided ‘freedom’ or ‘tolerance.’ Our spiritual pledge of allegiance follows Peter’s response to religious authorities, ‘We must obey God rather than men!’ (Acts 5:29). We obey God rather than nationalism. We obey the God revealed in the person of Jesus, rather than the God that religious ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 16, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“According to the evidence of the Bible itself, Jesus is the Word (John 1:1) – not a book. We can capitalize ‘Word’ when we refer to Jesus but to call the Bible ‘the Word of God’ is a stretch, perhaps even an error. The title ‘Word of God’ refers ultimately and supremely to the second person of the Triune God, whom we know as Jesus Christ, specifically called ‘the Word of God” in the first chapter of the Gospel of John…
In fact, when the focus of the ‘word’ of God becomes the Bible, when the Bible, the word, replaces the Word of God who is our Lord and Savior – when ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 13, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Boundaries are one of the defining characteristics of what it means to be human. As children, we probe and push until we can discover just how far our parents will go before they lower the boom on us. When we marry, we normally do a similar thing with the person we have promised to love and protect and cherish.
When the speed limit is 65, most drivers will extend that to about 75, thinking they have a safe margin before the highway patrol will stop them. We spend a lot of time and effort trying to go as far as we can. Lending institutions thrive by allowing people to push the outer limits of ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 11, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“When we read the life and teachings of Jesus, we read of God in the flesh who was always available. When his self-appointed security detail, also known as the disciples (as far as we know they weren’t wearing designer sunglasses), wanted to prevent little children from seeing him, Jesus stepped in and granted the children access.
Jesus had time. He was not too busy. He was not some big-shot executive who was late for another meeting, whose posse was waiting to usher him into his limo. He had plenty of time for anyone, even children. In Jesus, God came near, but then, sadly, religion stepped in and ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 9, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The kind of love that a man and woman have for each other that is pumped into our brains and hearts by our society, by our media and by our music, and yes, even by many of our churches – is conditional love. We have been brainwashed into believing we are loved as long as we can be who and what the object of our ‘love’ wants us to be. That’s conditional love – and it’s absolutely the opposite of the love taught in the Bible.”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 6, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“As a Christian, I believe I have no duty to force the culture in which I reside to be a Christian society.
When any humans, Christians or otherwise, get the idea that their main identity comes from the rightness of their behavior, sooner or later they will begin to believe that they have a right, a duty, perhaps even a divine calling, to force others who do not see things the way they do to do as they do. When people become convinced that their idea of right and wrong and of truth is the only way, they will form party lines and establish boundaries. They will draw lines in theological and philosophical ...
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