298 results for tag: Quote for today

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

December 5, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Isaiah says that Jesus was a root growing in dry ground (Isaiah 53:2). This reference to a root out of dry ground may indicate that the body of Jesus appeared somewhat stunted and unattractive compared with other humans. Jesus was a tender shoot, as opposed to one that was obviously robust and hearty. He was despised and rejected by men (Isaiah 53:3) – a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. While Jesus’ appearance alone didn’t ‘turn heads,’ there is no biblical reference that would lead us to think that Jesus, when he walked this earth preaching and teaching, looked frail or anemic. ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

December 3, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Today…we find the birth of Jesus sentimentalized and trivialized. The religious version of Christmas is packaged in a sentimental, fuzzy way designed to make us feel warm and nostalgic. You can buy that Christmas package in malls and stores and in many churches. Take a look at the baby Jesus you see displayed in many storefronts, church campuses and in many suburban front yards – a little hollow, plastic Jesus with a little light bulb. A little, hollow, plastic Jesus is exactly what our consumer driven Christ-less religion fabricates and constructs for consumption by its followers… But the ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 30, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Another year of Christmas hype is in full swing. It’s a time when Christmas decorations, advertisements, and promotions urge us to buy and spend, and during such a time it’s so easy to forget that anything and everything we have – physically or spiritually – is from God.  In his book Jesus: The Man Who Lives, Malcom Muggeridge commented on the Christmas shopping season, saying that it is ‘a mighty exercise in salesmanship, a gala occasion in the great contemporary cult of consumerism, an act of worship directed toward our latest deity – the Gross National Product.’… Sadly, humans ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 28, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “From a Christ-centered perspective Thanks-Giving is aptly named, for giving thanks is one of the most inevitable characteristics evident in those in whom the Master lives and works. Sadly, it seems giving thanks and being grateful is increasingly becoming extinct in our world. The plight of many today, particularly the younger generation, is that their spiritual senses have been overwhelmed by the ultimate goal of self-gratification. Many find themselves enslaved and captivated by passive distractions, with their attention glued to amusements, and in such a state they see no reason for thanksgiving ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 26, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Accepting God’s love makes all the difference – all the difference between a stale, mechanical, going-through-the-motions relationship with a religious institution, and an up-close-and-personal intimate relationship with God. Accepting God’s love is connecting with God. Connecting with God usually means we must lose our religion – we must unplug from religion in order to connect with God. God loves us because of who he is, never because of who we are or what we do. I believe God’s message to you and me goes something like this: ‘I know all about you – but I love you anyway. You’re ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 23, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Have you ever noticed how many individual Christians and incorporated religious institutions assume that God is exclusively on their side? Many seemingly think that God is a member-in-good-standing of their denomination. Many seem to assume that God carries the same national passport they do and that he always supports their country in any military altercation. Some even act and talk as if God supports their favorite athletic team and their particular political party. But if you think about the whole idea of God being polarized and politicized for about three seconds, it really doesn’t make any ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 21, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Excess does not guarantee happiness – on the other hand, many examples of excess we see in our Western world lead us to conclude that having ‘too much’ may lead to misery and unhappiness. Two things I ask of you, LORD, do not refuse me before I die:  Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me my own daily bread.  Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God – Proverbs 30:7-9 Let us give thanks that most of us have neither poverty nor ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 19, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Lending institutions place a cap or limit on the total amount of purchases you can charge to their card. They will only let you go so far before your credit runs out. How far can we go with God before he says to us, ‘That’s it – my grace has its limits!’ Is it possible to use so much of God’s love that our account will be ‘maxed out’? … Is it possible for us to come to a place when God says to us, ‘You’ve gone beyond the limits of my compassion.  You have too many sins on your sin debit card now – I can’t extend any more grace to you.’”  Christianity Without the ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 16, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “In God’s kingdom, creation is in harmony, even as God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, dwells in perfect harmony. God’s kingdom is not a temporary cease-fire. God’s kingdom is not a provisional agreement to refrain from hostilities. The perfection and eternity of God’s kingdom is all of creation glorifying God with one voice, like a symphony of orchestral instruments uniting their sounds, joined by a choir of many voices all singing the same words at the same time. The Hebrew word for peace is shalom – its meaning is of completion and fulness.  Shalom is holistic – it ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 14, 2024 - Quote for the Day:   “God’s joy runs deep, in our souls, more meaningful and satisfying than happiness, a word which often speaks of a more short-lived, surface feeling. Joy can and often does include happiness, but not always. For a Christ-follower, joy can exist even when immediate and physical circumstances are far from ‘happy.’ James speaks to this apparent conundrum – Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds… (James 1:2-3)."  Originally published in: Wonders of His Joy ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 12, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1). No more condemnation means the end of being ashamed of who we are. No more condemnation is possible because we accept and are assured of God’s love. And when we experience his love, our sense of self-loathing and shame is vanquished. No more condemnation means that we are free in Christ – free from self-loathing and shame – free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last. No more condemnation is possible because of the greatest love of all. We have been set free through Jesus Christ, who lived, died and rose ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 9, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “The Bible is and has been many things to many people. Selections from the Bible have become, over time, what people have made them to be. The Bible has been used and abused – it has been used to condone the practice of slavery, permit polygamy, promote racism, oppress women and justify war. Each and every time the Bible is read and studied, it is being interpreted. Everyone tends to read the Bible through their own lens of experience and culture. Everyone brings their own baggage packed with assumptions and prejudices to the process of reading and understanding the Bible.” Originally ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 7, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “The topic and theme of the Book of Revelation is Jesus Christ, not some geo-political, predictive timetable of future world events. The key to the Book of Revelation is its Christology, not its chronology. The guiding interpretive principle to be used in understanding Revelation is ‘who,’ not ‘when.’ Minimize the importance of the when; maximize the importance of the who. Revelation teaches that our human future is not the primary issue, but the future of Revelation is in and with Christ. The future in Revelation is all about Jesus Christ and His future… The gospel of Jesus Christ is all ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 5, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Jesus is God with a zip code (or a postal code for some readers). His spiritual address is the same as yours and your spiritual address is the same as his. Jesus has prepared eternal places for you and me, and he says he will ‘take you to be with me that you may also be where I am’ (John 14:3).”  Originally published in: Unplugging from Religion - Connecting With God ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

November 2, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “God is not forever engaged in making sure that you and I get what’s coming to us. God is not consumed with making sure we pay all the penalties we deserve – his primary motive is love – his primary care for you and me is his relentless and never-ending love.”  Christianity Without the Religion magazine, April 2022 ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

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October 31, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “I offer Revelation Revolution 1) as a Christ-centered remedy to the sensationalism of prophetic teaching and 2) from a compelling sense of duty in an attempt to spare others the inevitable loss of faith in God that is invariably left behind in the wake of such flawed and failed teaching. I am grieved to see that the same old broken-beyond-repair methodology of prophetic teaching continues to tease and allure millions into its destructive clutches.”  Originally published in: Revelation Revolution ------------------------------------- Help Us Help Others - Give Now

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 29, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “There are those, as you know, who say that the Jews deserved the Holocaust.  I absolutely reject that insane notion. There are also those who say that billions of people will be slow roasted, for all eternity, tortured in hell, condemned by God because they didn’t measure up to his standards. I absolutely reject that notion as the epitome of un-grace. Preachers fulminate about those who will get eternal torture (what they deserve) because they weren’t baptized with the right amount of water at the right age by the right religious authority using the right religious creed. Many will suffer ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 26, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Many people are terrified of a God of wrath, the God they believe is just waiting for the opportunity to ‘take them out’ and ‘teach them a lesson.’ That ‘god’ is not the one, true God. That is the same ‘god’ humans believed in long before Jesus – a pagan god who is angry, vengeful, and delights in seeing people ‘get what’s coming to them.’ God has been and is horribly misunderstood. When Christ-less religion continues to proclaim that misunderstanding, it causes enormous grief. The one true God is all about inviting us to embrace his grace.  God loves us because of who he ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 24, 2024 - Quote for the Day:  “To some degree the disciples couldn’t help but think that the cross of Christ meant that Jesus was a failure – after all, if he was as powerful as they thought, then why did he let himself be crucified? And then – another miracle – the resurrection from the dead! They must have considered some, if not all of these paradoxes just as human beings are not born to virgins, just as God does not become flesh, just as God in the flesh doesn’t let himself be crucified, so too are humans not resurrected from the dead.”  Originally published in: Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, ...

Reflections Along the Jesus Way

October 22, 2024 - Quote for the Day: “Toward the end of No Country for Old Men, Tommy Lee Jones goes to visit his father, who lives in an old shack in the middle of nowhere.  He talks to his father about retiring.  His father was himself forcibly retired when he was crippled in the course of his job in law enforcement. Tommy Lee Jones is standing by an old kitchen sink in his father’s crumbling shack, drinking a cup of coffee, gazing wistfully out the window at the wastelands of west Texas.  As I recall, he turns and says to his father, ‘You know, I always thought when I got older God would come into my life.  ...