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Through Jesus, we can boldly come and receive (Hebrews 10:19–22), but confidence does not equal casualness.

(Emphasis mine.)

–overheard from a really tired kid on a mission trip

If you value emotive story-telling with anachronistic eco-friendly howlers, this is your movie.

“But even when you can get people to talk about it, usually the focus lies on horizontal dimensions”

–Chris Travis

Challies’ invitation to the challenge:

“This is a holy day. Therefore let it be a happy day.” The logic is inescapable.

Celebrity is actually a creation of a community of people who sustain the illusion of an omnicompetent superhuman.

–Psalm 143:8

–Psalm 16:11

Kevin DeYoung:

If we are to celebrate that the Lord Jesus is a glorious friend of sinners—and we should—we must pay careful attention to the ways in which Jesus actually was a friend to sinners. Omitting the story of the woman caught in adultery (for reasons of textual criticism), I count five main passages in the gospels where Jesus is chastised for getting too close to sinners.

2 Samuel 22:20