297 results for tag: Quote for today
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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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 18, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979-1990, was the longest-serving British Prime Minister of the 20th century. While she was in office Mrs. Thatcher visited a home for seniors, the kind of place referred to as an ‘old folk’s home.’ As she made the rounds shaking hands, she came to an older lady who seemed to be suffering from dementia. She gave no indication that she had any idea that she was shaking hands with the Prime Minister.
Mrs. Thatcher asked the woman, ‘Do you know who I am?’
The dear lady replied, ‘No dear, but if you really want to ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 15, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“In The Return of the Prodigal Rembrandt paints the older brother with folded hands, frowning on the homecoming, even as his father generously grants a free and total pardon to the returning, younger son. The older brother cannot accept his father’s failure to demand penance and retribution from his wayward younger brother. The older brother is scandalized by the extravagant way in which his father lavishly extends grace.
But the father makes no demands that the returning son ‘give something up’ in payment for his poor choices and bad behavior. In Jesus’ parable the primary things that are ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 13, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“So, for the first readers of the book of Revelation as for us today, this book encourages us to trust God with our lives as we await 1) the end of all earthly powers that destroy humanity and 2) entrance into the everlasting joy of the kingdom of God. Revelation is written to Christians who live in an often brutal world. Whether that world is the first century or the twenty-first century, whether we as Christians find ourselves facing persecution or insurmountable obstacles, Revelation offers hope by reminding us that the battle belongs to the Lord.
At the end of Revelation’s 22 chapters, a ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 11, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“It’s true that there are people who are spiritually blind – doing time in religious prisons – and for some reason unknown to you or me or anyone else for that matter, God has not made a way for them to come to know him as he has for others. Why hasn’t he? We don’t know.
We do know that God is no respecter of persons. He doesn’t play favorites. That doesn’t mean everyone will accept his invitation. It may be that he gives different kinds of invitations to different people.
We don’t know all the details. We do know that he loves the whole world. He offers, perhaps in ways beyond our ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 8, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“In the name of Christ, religious counterfeits require that we give a bribe or tip to the headwaiter to get into the dining area. Performance-based religion gives preferences to who and what you know, how much you have and what you have accomplished. But Jesus offers everyone a seat in the most exclusive dining room in the universe, in the heavenly realms, based upon God’s grace. Our seat at the Lord’s Table is not based upon money, fame, or deeds. We are seated at the Lord’s Table because of who he is, not because of who we are. And, by the way, the Bible says nothing about any particular group of ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 6, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“God is not impressed with the lofty, ornate cathedrals humans build. God doesn’t assume that those religious monuments are more holy than little humble church buildings out on some windswept plain or desert. For that matter, God is not impressed with any building we can build and dedicate to him – as Acts 7:48 tell us: …the Most High does not live in houses made by men.
Worshipping God inside a building that calls itself a church does not exalt you before God. Your presence inside a building that calls itself a church is not the basis of God’s love for you. God is not impressed with ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 4, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The chief opposition and objections to God’s grace do not come from those who do not claim to be Christians at all, like Buddhists or Muslims. The chief objections to God’s grace come from those who call themselves Christians but are trapped by legalism, and are in the swamps of Christ-less religion.
No one hates God’s grace so much as those who work hard to convince God that their efforts are holy and righteous. It was religion that hated Jesus. We must not compromise with God’s grace, my friends. We must not allow God’s grace to be watered down. Each of us will either be children of faith, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
June 2, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Mention the Book of Revelation in a conversation, and even Christians will generally react in one of two extremes. Some think that Revelation has nothing of importance to offer. They see the book as archaic, grisly and grotesque first-century writing with no relevance for today. On the other hand, some Christians seem to think that Revelation (and any other part of the Bible that is related to it or used to interpret it) is the only part of the Bible worth reading and studying. Many are virtual prophecy junkies, addicted to ‘updated interpretations’ of Revelation, because they see this book as a ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 30, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The church is not a building. The church is not identified by a sign outside of a building or by a steeple that soars above a building. The church is not a legally incorporated entity. One may be a member of a church and not be a member of the universal body of Christ, which is the church that really counts. One may be a member of the universal body of Christ and thus free in Christ (Galatians 5:1) to affiliate with a church. But one’s membership in a church is not required or a necessary prerequisite for membership in the universal church founded by Jesus Christ. Christ-followers are the church – ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 28, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, widely regarded as a 20th century martyr, put to death by the Nazis before the end of World War 2 because of his faith in Christ, once said, ‘Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.’ Jesus did not come to this earth to start another religion, but to save the world from religion!
The mission of Christ-less religion is sin management. Christ-less religion is all about making bad people better. Jesus is not interested in cosmetic improvements. He did not, in the ultimate demonstration of love, give his life on the cross for a behavioral modification program. ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 25, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“When it comes to marital love, so many people are not willing to forgive, blaming their husband or wife for all marital difficulties, and then off they go ‘looking for love in all the wrong places.’ They fail to forgive the imperfections of others and they fail to realize their own flaws and foibles and thus they start looking for their ‘soul mate’ – thinking that someone somewhere will make them deliriously happy, without stopping to consider how they might make that someone happy.
‘Dear Abby’ once concluded this short letter in her newspaper column: ‘Dear Abby: I am divorced, 50 ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 23, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“A law-based, rules-focused ministry or church will eventually turn you into a hypocrite, because in a religious environment where the emphasis is on human perfection and human performance, you can never admit to being who you really are. In such a religious environment you must pretend that everything in your life is near-perfect, because if you give any hint that you are less than perfect you will be regarded and probably treated as a failure. So, in order to survive and thrive within religious legalism, you must pretend to be someone (a near-perfect person) whom you are not.
In such an atmosphere, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
May 21, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“Sad to say, religion, including many parts of Christendom, has been responsible for the repression of women over the years. Many biblical passages have been subjectively interpreted by men to mean that they are superior to women. This was a convenient interpretation for men, of course, as they were, and still are ‘in charge’ of many churches. So, men have, sometimes in the guise of Christianity, lorded it over women, maintaining their domination over women by interpreting biblical passages in such a way that women would be charged with being ‘barefoot and pregnant’ – almost like a possession. ...
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