297 results for tag: Quote for today
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 ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 4, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“When you hear the two words fatal and attraction linked you may think of a movie by that title. The movie, you may remember, teaches the lesson that those who think they own you, may wind up stewing your pet rabbit.
I don’t want any political interest thinking that I will pay them the allegiance which I owe to God alone, for first and foremost I am a citizen of the kingdom of heaven.
Neither a political candidate nor a political party can replace the kingdom of God. There is no New Testament teaching that requires Christians to attempt to influence or change political institutions.
I am ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
July 2, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Our pledge as Christ-followers is not to any nation or state. While the Bible calls us to be good citizens of our earthly countries, our true and eternal citizenship is in heaven. Our primary pledge as Christ-followers is to Jesus Christ. He alone is our Lord and our Savior – the one and only King of the kingdom of heaven. As Christ-followers, our pledge to Jesus as Lord stands on the two “great commandments”: to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength – and to love our neighbors as ourselves. If we are committed to that pledge, we will be good citizens of virtually every free ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 29, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Books about the end times, the last days, and a ‘fast-approaching/soon-coming’ end of the world, based on one exclusive view of how to interpret the Book of Revelation, have littered the landscape of the days of our lives. Many have lost faith in God because of sensational interpretations about the Book of Revelation that have failed. When a specific interpretation of Revelation failed, those who believed it have often blamed God.
We North Americans have been, and continue to be, an easy mark for lurid, spine-tingling portrayals of future events said to be based on the Book of Revelation. We are ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 27, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“In the days of Christ, and before, pagan gods were thought to interact with humans on earth, but their real interests – their real domain – was ‘up there.’ Theirs was a celestial kingdom – their power and actions affected humans on earth, but normally not in a positive way. The Bible insists there is only one true God and that out of his love for us, in Christ he became a human being, becoming one of us. Further, in Christ, he did not curse or kill humans, but instead he himself was crucified, as the ultimate demonstration of his love.
Then, at the end of time as we know it, when God makes ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 25, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“I was once a card-carrying member of a cult. I bought into the teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong (the collective body of these teachings today is often called Armstrongism) hook, line and sinker. I was a true believer. It’s fascinating to see the reactions of people when I tell them I was once in a cult. If I’m talking with a group of people and the subject comes up, it’s as if all the air has suddenly been sucked out of the room. Everyone gets real quiet, while they anticipate me telling lurid stories about how I once sacrificed goats and defaced cemeteries. Polite society, especially ‘good, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 22, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Somewhere along the line some who call themselves Christians have gotten the idea that God wants Christians to criticize, condemn, intimidate, and bully other people. I have searched the Bible, to no avail, to find teaching that would direct me to boycott and wave placards. I have searched the early history of the church in an effort to see how those who were eyewitnesses of Jesus’ life and ministry might have engaged in such things.
Nothing.
Where do we get such ideas? Not from the Bible. Where then? We get those ideas from Bad News Religion, the mortal enemy of God’s grace.
We, in ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 20, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“One of the reasons that religious institutions have allowed this misunderstanding of God to continue and why they continue to perpetuate such fraudulent ideas about God is because religion itself needs an angry God. An angry and upset God serves the purposes of big business religion, under the control and sway of Christ-less religion.”
Originally published in:
Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, Volume 2
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