

“The blinding ability of sin is so powerful and persuasive that you and I literally need daily intervention.”
― Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry
― Dangerous Calling: Confronting the Unique Challenges of Pastoral Ministry

“Your computer operates automatically in a default mode unless you deliberately tell it to do something else. So Luther says that even after you are converted by the gospel your heart will go back to operating on other principles unless you deliberately, repeatedly set it to gospel-mode.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

“Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.”
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“We weren’t created to find our satisfaction in the little, earthbound kingdom treasures of the here and now. We were created to seek a better treasure, and in so doing to be eternally grateful and satisfied.”
― A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You
― A Quest for More: Living for Something Bigger than You

“Would you please be open to the possibility that the gospel, real Christianity, is something very different from religion?” That gives many people hope that there is a way to know God that doesn’t lead to the pathologies of moralism and religiosity.”
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
― The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
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