297 results for tag: Quote for today
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 19, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Paul is talking, throughout the book of Galatians, about slavery to the law. He tells us if we are convinced that the only way we can please and appease God is through our careful adherence to a system of rules and regulations we will be under a curse.
We will be cursed because we will forever be unable to determine whether God is happy with us. If you ask a person who is a slave to legalistic religion whether or not they know that God has saved them, or whether they will be allowed to enter God’s kingdom of heaven when they did, their answer will be something like ‘I hope so.’ ‘I ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 17, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Never forget that the book of Revelation tells us about Jesus knocking on the door of his church – not just any old church that is not even Christian – but his church (Revelation 3:20). Jesus tells us he is on the outside of one of his own churches, seeking entrance! He wants that door to be opened so that light can enter, so the fresh wind of God’s grace may flood the church and drive out the toxic fumes of legalism and authoritarianism.
A man named George McLeod once wrote that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves, on the town ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 14, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The gospel is not about us. The gospel is not of human origins. The gospel does not depend on human efforts. God may, through the gospel, reach out to us and allow us to be involved in his work, but we should never think that any part of the power of God depends on our power, for as soon as we do, we become fools. Eventually, if we continue to allow ourselves to think that way, we will all wind up in the salt mines of some religious outpost, pounding rocks for our religious task masters.”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 12, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Jesus asks us to trust him. Jesus invites us to believe him. Jesus invites us to embrace the grace of God. Some say, ‘Oh, that’s too easy – that’s just an excuse.’ I reply, ‘Oh, no it is the most difficult thing in the world to trust, believe, surrender, yield and embrace the grace of God. I’ll tell you what is easy: to follow the dictates of religion that suggest if we just do more, run faster, give more, pray harder – then maybe, someday, if we catch God on a good day, he will give us what we want.’”
Christianity Without the Religion magazine, February 2018 ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 10, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“For some, ‘studying the Bible’ is merely a subjective exercise of picking and choosing until they are able to prove what they already believe to be true. As we faithfully study the Bible, we must beware of the many ways our beliefs and our biases may influence our quest to hear and know God.
Eisegesis = Reading something into (eis) the passage that isn’t there. An exercise in subjectivism.
Exegesis = Discovering and understanding meaning out of (ex) the passage, attempting to establish an unbiased point of view.
…The Bible is a collection of stories and experiences of sex, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 7, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The record of failed predictions should be a red flag for Christians, a caution against using Revelation as a predictive handbook. The fact that our religious landscape is littered with predictions and speculations about eschatology it itself a reason why you need to carefully consider this issue. Why have so many been so wrong so often? The view that you accept of the ordering of events before Christ comes need not affect your salvation, for eschatology is not a core doctrine of Christianity. But your eschatological beliefs can affect what others think about you and the Christianity you ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 5, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“So one day, Moses was shepherding his sheep. He was far from the glitz and glamour of Egyptian society – he was just another nomadic shepherd. There was a time when he had been a young and handsome prince, now he was an old and forgotten shepherd. He was moving his sheep, trying to find a better pasture – when this strange encounter with God changed his life. We call it the burning bush – the bush that just burned and burned and burned without ever being consumed.
Examine the story carefully. Moses was not looking for God. The Bible doesn’t say Moses got up that morning determined to ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 3, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“There are eight Greek words translated as ‘joy’ in the New Testament – with the predominant definition being inner peace, assurance and delight. One of the root words in Greek for ‘joy’ is similar to the word translated as ‘grace’ – suggesting a close connection to God’s grace and the joy one realizes because of that grace. Joy in the Bible ultimately comes from God. Contrasted with happiness, particularly as the word is commonly used in our contemporary world, joy is not based on possessions or circumstances that bring pleasure or gratification of the senses.”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 31, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Sensational predictive preaching and teaching about the book of Revelation is but one of the many tools used by legalistic religion to control its followers by keeping them ever vigilant and on edge about some eminent event, such as the Rapture. In order to maintain its control, religion keeps moving the finish line as to ‘when’ the prophecies will happen. The focus in such cases is almost entirely on the future. By contrast, authentic Christianity proclaims the second coming, but always in the context of the freedom we now have in Christ, because He has already conquered on His ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 29, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“… in this computer age you can go through the day without ever getting up close and personal with a ‘real, live’ human being. You can watch television, you can listen to the radio, follow the news and pay your bills on our computer. Cell phones not only enable you to call others but to receive calls, text message others, send email messages, listen to music, as well as a host of other functions.
Have you ever wondered why some television shows are so appealing – you know, the ones that depict people walking into a diner, a bar, a pub, a small shop, or a Starbucks – places where ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 27, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Memories of hurts and pains inflicted on us by others haunt and torment us, and cause all kinds of emotions – guilt, shame, resentment and hatred. Looking back on our lives, hurts litter our journey like discarded trash on the side of some lonesome road. As painful as our memories of being hurt are, they can fester and grow into resentment and hatred of those who either hurts us or had some part in our pain… in all the stories of revenge and vindication, individuals who experience life without giving or receiving forgiveness live in an emotional and spiritual prison cell. They are slaves to ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 24, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“1) Are you sure that you are saved? Askmost Christians that question. Seldom will you receive a dogmatic ‘Yes.’ Normally you will receive a prevaricating, hedging, two-step-like dance. ‘Well, yes, I think so – that is, as long as I continue to do such and such.’ Or the answer might be something like this: ‘I hope I’m saved, but I wouldn’t want to be so arrogant as to say I have it made. I still have a long way to go. I hope I make it.’ Those kinds of comments are by far and away the majority of comments in response to the question, ‘Are ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
August 22, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Grace is an eternal force that flows from God’s heart and soul delivering unmerited and undeserved favor to train wrecks like you and me.
Grace delivers us from the false and corrupt ideas that we are powerful enough to earn and deserve God’s favor, by teaching us that we are powerless to earn righteousness on the basis of our own obedience.
Grace announces Jesus. Grace announces that the old way of trying to please and appease God via obedience to laws is over – and that the new has come. Grace is the love letter from God that frees us from the condemnation of the law – the love ...
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 ...
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