God’s kingdom is good. It is good, I say, because God is there with us and we there share our lives with God. Joy like gathering to feast with family and friends fills heavenly glory. God invites all into His kingdom. No entrance requirements. No applications to fill out. No review process to keep out the deplorables. Just come on in. Anyone left out stay out upon their own accord....
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Cheap Grace
Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate….
Russian Proverb: Dwell on the past…lose an eye… Forget the past…lose both eyes
Don’t dig up the past! Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye… Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes. — Russian proverb From Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, vol. 1 (New York: Harperennial, 1976) xviii
C.S. Lewis on the rightful king and a great campaign of sabotage
Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed...and is call us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage.
Title: Feasts, Seating, and Invitations: How to Advance God’s Way?
Jesus eats with sinners and publicans by Alexandre Bida. Two virtues that characterized the ministry of Jesus Christ were humility and unconditional love. The Lord also taught His followers to display these virtues in their own lives through the parables of taking the lower seat and inviting the least, lost, and lowly of the world in Luke … Continue reading Title: Feasts, Seating, and Invitations: How to Advance God’s Way?
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