Worship Quotables

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• Facts, Faith, and Feelings
  The subjective operation of the Holy Spirit is complemented always by the objective facts of the Gospel.  The subjective operation is necessary.  Without it the Gospel is to us mere history.  Jesus is, shall we say, a great religious teacher.  The death and reported resurrection are incidents which call for discussion and explanation as best […]
• The Centrality of Easter
  Easter preceded by Lent is the primary annual cycle of the calendar; secondary to it is Christmas preceded by Advent. This is true both theologically and historically. It is the resurrection that interprets the birth of Jesus. Apart from the resurrection, Jesus has no more claim upon us than Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Martin […]
• The Resurrection Changes Everything!
  A crucial assumption of the New Testament is that the ministry of Jesus makes sense only as we read it “backward.”  God’s vindication of Jesus in the resurrection is an act so bold and drastic that everything prior must be understood in a new way.  Since the New Testament documents were all written in the […]
• Christian Hope
  Christian hope is a confident assurance (act), grounded in God’s promise and faithfulness as revealed in the Scriptures in general and in Christ in particular (grounds), that the triune God (agency) will bring about the “resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come” (object) at Christ’s appearing (time), making heaven and […]