Quotes About God

God has vindicated Jesus.

Easter is God's 'yes' to Jesus against the powers who killed him" (2006, 205; italics in original).

Christianity involves the claim that Jesus was anointed by God to represent both God and humanity in the restoration of a broken relationship existing between the Creator and his creation.

Jesusanity is a coined term for the alternative story about Jesus. Here the center of the story is still Jesus, but Jesus as either a prophet or a teacher of religious wisdom. In Jesusanity, Jesus remains very much Jesus of Nazareth. He points the way to God and leads people into a journey with God. His role is primarily one of teacher, guide, and example.

In one, Jesus is worshipped. In the other, he is simply respected. In one, he is intimately associated with God. In the other, he points to God. In one, he is the Way. In the other, he shows the way. We cannot understand the public discussion about Jesus without understanding that the discussion entails these two distinct stories.

That is why the question of enthroning or dethroning Jesus is so important. Might our spiritual quest to find God be tied to which Jesus leads us and where?

With repentance comes a change of mind that effects a change of direction, since one's orientation of life is directed in faith to God.

The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God and World Affairs (2006).

The result of this first divorce is devastating. Life becomes defined in terms of personal freedom and autonomy, a kind of independence from God and others.

No accountability to God comes to mean no accountability to anyone other than those to whom I choose to be accountable.

So the second divorce is between God and the potential of his revelation to make us, as his creatures, accountable.

I kept reverting to my basic question: how does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired, but only the words copied by the scribes—sometimes correctly and sometimes (many times!) incorrectly?

When Stephen declares that he sees the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God, he is stoned for blasphemy because, in the view of these Jews, no one has the right to be at the side of God's heavenly presence.

However, Jesus' stress in his teaching was a reorientation of the heart before God, as opposed to the expression of these ideas in as raw a political form as their work suggests

Daily life becomes a discipline of asking how one may move more squarely into the realm of God's reign and how one may welcome and receive it into the fabric of one's life this day more than ever before.

Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.

The God who has claimed us for himself if Father, Son and Holy Spirit; not just Father, not just Son, not just Spirit. God is God FOR US - Father. God is God WITH US - Son. God is God IN US - Spirit.

True freedom has its limits, which are the rights of others. God

with its graceful language and poetic conceit, and even more because it expressed his own philosophy of science. To wit: As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited logic—that all observed effects may have been wrought by Him in any one of an infinite number of omnipotent ways, and these must ever evade mortal comprehension.

As earnestly as men may seek to understand the workings of the universe, they must remember that God is not hampered by their limited logic that all observed effects may have been wrought by Him in any one of an infinite number of omnipotent ways, and these ways, and these must ever evade mortal comprehension.

World missions was on God's mind from the beginning.

SALMO 28:8 Dios es nuestro amparo y nuestra fortaleza, nuestra ayuda segura en momentos de angustia.

Si se ve envuelto en una tormenta en este instante, no tema pedirle a Dios que le salve.

The small group is the most strategic training environment used by Christ to make the kind of disciples that glorify God.