Quotes About Christ

I believe God designed marriage, in part, to "pinch our feet." Both men and women need to have their pride assaulted. All of us, men and women alike, if we are to become like Christ, must, by definition, learn to become servants. And marriage gives us the opportunity to do just that.

Occasional acts of dramatic service like this can go such a long way — not only in cementing intimacy as a couple, but in reminding the spouse who does the giving that to know Christ is to know service; to become like Christ is to become like a servant; to follow Christ is to follow the way of service.

I ache for the day when people make such wise marital choices that they can pray through where to live to make the most significant impact for Christ instead of praying that they could merely be able to exist in the same house without yelling and fighting.

Each day we must die to our own desires and rise as a servant. Each day we are called to identify with the suffering Christ on the cross and then be empowered by the resurrected Christ. We die to our expectations, our demands, and our fears. We rise to compromise, service, and courage. IN THE SAME WAY JESUS GAVE HIS BODY FOR US, WE ARE TO LAY DOWN OUR ENERGY, OUR BODIES, AND OUR LIVES FOR OTHERS.

would not consider any spirituality worthwhile that wants to walk in sweetness and ease and run from the imitation of Christ."3

Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ's blood, Christ's gospel, Christ's church, and Christ's expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays 'bottled up', confined to the historical skins of Palestine.

In the evolutionary worldview, time and death work together to produce upward progress; in the biblical worldview, death came only after Adam's sin corrupted God's perfect creation, and sin and death work together to produce downward decline — until Christ comes again, conquering sin and death and making all things new!

May his joyous grace and total well-being, flowing from our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, rest upon you.

4For the Christ is the end of the law.a And because of him, God has transferred his perfect righteousness to all who believe.

4Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entombed with him, so that when the Father's glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life. 5For since we are permanently grafted into hima to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts.

In 8:6 we find revelation-truth about Christ that hadn't been understood before: "For us there is only one God—the Father. He is the source of all things, and our lives are lived for him. And there is one Lord, Jesus, the Anointed One, through whom we and all things exist." Here Paul equates the one true God of Israel, Yahweh, with Jesus. Jesus is Yahweh, the only true God.

a positive imputation of Christ's obedience must be imputed to the believer beyond the forgiveness of sins in order for him to be justified. Justification, therefore, is viewed as a twofold act: forgiveness and the imputation of positive righteousness.

If we can't take Christ to them by preaching, we'll take Christ to them by living.

REFLECTION: Are you letting Christ shine through you so that people around you can know Him? How can people observe Jesus in you?

I am a fool for Christ...whose fool are you?

Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.

Do not be satisfied with God's calling or His gifts in your life. Be satisfied with Jesus Christ Himself.

And this presence of the Spirit will enlighten not only yellow skin people or white skin people but even black skin people. I believe in the last days the Spirit of God will be poured out in the nations of Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Because Jesus Christ is the Lord. Jesus Christ is the Lord of the Universe. Amen.

Evangelical spirituality focuses, subjectively, on the "with-God" life in all of its lived dimensions. It concerns the manner by which we live in communion with Christ in response to the Spirit in pursuit of holiness resulting in service to others.

The word grace reminded Paul's readers of God's kindness in offering salvation to undeserving people. Peace reminded the readers of Christ's offer of peace to his disciples as they lived out their faith in an evil world (John 14:27).

Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.

Later Bernard of Clairvaux, following on Origen's "bridal mysticism," affirms in a sermon on the Song of Songs that Christ appears three times for the believer: in his Incarnation, in his final or "second coming," and in our daily opening the Scriptures.

Salvation is in Christ, not the Holy Ghost; our Blessed Lord redeemed us and the Holy Ghost is his messenger to carry the message of redeeming grace into the hearts of men. Thus, the joyous words spoken by the Holy Ghost are in reality the words of Christ. The Spirit is simply the one who delivers the word.

We do not know, we cannot tell, no mortal mind can conceive the full import of what Christ did in Gethsemane.