Worship Quotables

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• The Spirit’s Work in Us
  The Holy Spirit draws us into the Father’s bosom through Christ. The Spirit places us in Christ so that everything that the Son is and possesses via the joyous exchange is ours by faith. We in Christ are enabled to respond to God in praise because the Holy Spirit causes love for God to arise […]
• Divine Enablement
  I believe that by my own understanding or strength I cannot believe in Jesus Christ my Lord or come to him, but instead the Holy Spirit has called me through the gospel, enlightened me with gifts, made me holy and kept me in the true faith, just as he calls, gathers, enlightens, and makes holy […]
• The Centrality of the Resurrection
  The cross proclaims both the humiliation of God through the act of taking on human flesh and the exaltation of God through the resurrection of the Incarnate and Crucified One. The mystery of humiliation-exaltation can be understood best only in reverse. In terms of Jesus: Without the Resurrection, Good Friday commemorates simply the death of […]
• The Beginning of Wisdom
  It is a potent dimension of radical monotheism that if there is truly only one God, then he alone should be the object of our true fear. Then those who live in the fear of the Lord need live in fear of nothing else. Other objects of fear lose their divine power and their idolatrous […]