Quotes About Redemption

God's idea of redemption is community-shaped.

No, his repentance parts the water so that our (weak) repentance can stand up in that water.

In his incarnate life, when he becomes one with us, Jesus recapitulates, or relives, Israel's (our) history. He becomes one of us. In fact, he becomes all of us in one divine-human being. Jesus is all Adam and Eve were designed to be, and more; he loves the Father absolutely and he loves himself absolutely and he loves others absolutely and he loves the world absolutely. He is the Oneness Story in one person.

The atonement is designed by God to restore cracked Eikons into glory-producing Eikons by participation in the perfect Eikon, Jesus Chirst, who redeems the cosmos. To be an Eikon, then, is to be charged with a theocentric and missional life. Prior to the fall, Adam and Eve did what they were supposed to do: they "eikoned." And cracked Eikons are being restored so that they can eikon now and so that they will eikon forever.

Gospels of Sin Management" presume a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind … [and] they foster "vampire Christians," who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven. Dallas

Babylon will never be the new Jerusalem; it cannot be Christianized.

By doing one wrong thing, I thought I could make everything right.

Sin is not so bad as it is a waste of time.

When I talked with God about the stuff I faced, first on the list was the face I stuffed.

He gave our pain and struggles a holy significance, a redemptive power, which makes it a privilege for us to suffer with Christ.

Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home.

Redemptive suffering is an essential part of our master story. This is what it means for us to bear the image and likeness of God. By the power of the Holy Spirit, our suffering refines our charity, just as our charity transforms our suffering into a living sacrifice that allows God to have his way into our lives.

He lay there shaking in the light of the red lamps, in a silent hall, alone with his triumph, unable to move and bleeding to death.

As we demonstrate how every text reflects aspects of or needs for God's grace that are made plain in the fullness of time, we honor the unity of Scripture, God's progressive plan of redemption, and the many ways that the Holy Spirit coordinates the whole Bible to reveal the grace of the Savior and the futility of any other hope.

Provision of divine redemption in the face of spiritual need is the consistent message of Scripture and the chief means by which human hearts flood with love for God that is power to obey his commands

4) TAKE 2: What did Jesus say as he was being crucified? Don't touch my fuckin' Easter eggs. I'll be back on Monday.

We don't have to be bad forever. We can fight our urges. We can choose to be good.

Yes...blood is the price of all things.

I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Horror is the result of sin. Sin gives way to temptation. Temptation is the number-one weapon of the Devil.

The gospel isn't merely the absence of all condemnation; it's also the fullness of God's delight lavished on us in Christ.

And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

Jesus is the promise keeper, not us. He's the one who has promised to make all things new, including me.