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Christianity Today:

Christians have long had an uneasy relationship with culture. We like art, music, food, and movies, but possess an internal sensor that starts beeping wildly if we start liking these cultural goods too much. In the last hundred years, many believers have ricocheted back and forth between these poles — between, as Brett McCracken puts it, “legalism and liberty.”

—prayer of Timothy Keller at Movement Day

—Dan Smith at Movement Day

—Luis Palau

–Timothy Keller on Acts 16

–John Wesley paraphrasing Job 19:25ff

—prayer of John Wesley

John Piper on Christians and 9/11 (emphasis mine):

And what makes this text so relevant near the anniversary of 9/11 is that Paul spells out the kinds of things that cannot separate us from the love of Christ, and they are the sort of things that happened that day: “Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” The reason Paul chose to mention so many terrible things is to make sure we knew he was not saying: Well, there are some things so horrible that they really could separate us from the love of Christ. No. Nothing can separate us from Christ’s love.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

–Hosea 6:3

–Psalm 4:7

–Rasskin-Gutman

–2 Corinthians 5:1

–Proverbs 16:20