Quotes
This page contains the resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. Admittedly, it is an eclectic list. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts, videos, and slideshows.
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To Live Is Christ
(Colorado Springs: David C Cook, 2013), 81
It is easier (and less painful) for us to rely on God’s forgiveness of our sins than it is to believe that God might support us to quit them.
Barbara Brown Taylor
Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation (Lanham, MD: Cowley Publications, 2000), 4
Speaking of Sin: The Lost Language of Salvation (Lanham, MD: Cowley Publications, 2000), 4
We don’t like to get too serious about things, especially about ourselves. When we are with other people, we are apt to talk about almost anything under the sun except for what really matters to us, except for our own lives, except for what is going on inside our own skins. We pass the time of day We chatter. We hold each other at bay, keep our distance from each other even when God knows it is precisely each other that we desperately need.
It is this God of the gospel who came to that barren, hopeless couple Abraham and Sara, in their old age, and gave them a child, an heir, and opened a future for them. And since then, the God of the gospel has been giving people futures when they thought there was no possibility of newness.
Lent is about noticing our blindness and seeing differently. I invite you, during this Lent, to see differently, maybe even for the first time. To see past your anxiety, your greed, your fear, your control. See yourself as the sheep of this Good Shepherd, as the traveler in God’s good valley, as the citizen at home in God’s good house.