297 results for tag: Quote for today
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
October 5, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The Beatitudes are counter-cultural to an entrenched Christian culture that since the days of Constantine has been hell bent on ‘evangelizing’ through enforced conformity and ultimately subjugation rather than proclaiming the grace of God and the transformation he freely gives, through Christ, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27). In a world dominated then and now by the lethal, oppressive combination of warfare and violence on the one hand with the tyranny of fear-based religion on the other, the Beatitudes are the revolutionary manifesto of the kingdom of heaven.”
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
October 3, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“It is time for those on the right and those on the left to renounce fear-mongering voices that seek to improve their own advantage at the expense of continuing hatred and animosity. It is time for peace, not war – for love, not hatred – for misery, not revenge. It is time for us to beat weapons into productive tools for planting and building. It is time for us to fill our hearts with the grace, mercy and love of God, for politics and politicians will not save us. It is time for a vision of hope. It is time for new life rather than the darkness of evil, hatred, racism and violence, so that ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
October 1, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“There’s a story about an older gentleman who owned a classic Cadillac about the length of a small yacht that illustrates the deep divides in our society. The old man was trying to carefully back his ‘boat’ into a parking place when a teenager zipped in with a little ‘Smart’ car and stole the parking place.
The teenager, who had not been taught to respect seniors, jumped out of his little car and said, ‘You’ve got to be young and quick to zip in and out of parking places, Pop.’ The senior citizen continued to back up his massive Cadillac, rolling over the mini-electric car like a tank, ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 28, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“For people who are trapped in religious legalism, their god is all about control. They perceive their god as controlling all aspects of their lives, everything that they might anticipate doing or not doing is legislated by their religion and taught to them as God’s will. God, in short, is all about controlling them, he’s an overlord, and he does it because he loves them, or so they are told. For so many hundreds of millions of people, the god of religion never cracks a smile. For them, the god of religion doesn’t experience joy of any kind, and of course, neither should ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 26, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“As long as I misunderstood the Book of Revelation, I accepted predictions and date setting as a part of my life; failed predictions would all simply be re-issued by extending the goal line to some even more future and far off date. In my case, religious legalism and prediction addiction teamed up as a lethal one-two religious punch. While they both may exist apart from one another, they are cousins in the sense that they are religious co-conspirators. They contribute to one another, leading to the same kind of religious captivity. I experienced the ‘combo-platter’ of religious ...
Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 24, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“The crib and the cross didn’t happen because God remained aloof. The crib and the cross happened the way they did because God determined, out of his love for you and me, to enter into his reality and become just like us and experience life as we live it. He brought us good news which we call the gospel. He didn’t write a book, lick a stamp and put the gospel in a package and have the mailman or FedEx driver deliver it. He didn’t send angels or prophets – he brought the gospel himself, in person.”
Originally published in:
Letters to My Friends
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Reflections Along the Jesus Way
September 21, 2024 - Quote for the Day:
“One afternoon a Hindu priest, a Jewish rabbi and a Christian TV evangelist were on a trip when their car broke down in a rural area. They were walking for help when a thunderstorm hit. They all ran for a nearby farm house and asked for shelter.
The farmer said, ‘This storm is not going to let up. You’re going to have to spend the night. Only problem is I only have room for two in the house – one of you will have to sleep in the barn.
The Hindu priest spoke up, ‘I’ll sleep in the barn. A little hardship is nothing to me.’ He ran out to the barn as ...
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.”
Originally published in:
Spiritual Soup for the Hungry Soul, ...
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 ...
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