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The Spirit's role, in summary, is to turn our postcard apprehensions of Christ's great heart of longing affection for us into an experience of sitting on the beach, in a lawn chair, drink in hand, enjoying the actual experience.

And if the actions of Jesus are reflective of who he most deeply is, we cannot avoid the conclusion that it is the very fallenness which he came to undo that is most irresistibly attractive to him.

C'est une des faiblesses principales de la chrétienté présente, et du mouvement évangélique lui-même, que la perte du sens de l'éternel. Nous subissons la contagion de l'immanentisme qui nous baigne, nous avons peur du sarcasme nietzschéen lancé aux « hallucinés de l'arrière-monde », nous ne voulons pas passer pour des trafiquants d'opium du peuple, et nous réduisons insensiblement le message aux perspectives du temps.

And that is an image that will stick with you, let me tell you: Justin Bieber, on his knees in Tyson Chandler’s bathtub, wet and sobbing against Pastor Carl’s chest, *so unable to cope with being himself that he has to be born anew*, he has to be declared someone entirely different, in order to make it through the night.

tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner

Trust Jesus as the great Son of David, the King who can rule you in righteousness. Trust Jesus as the promised Son of Abraham, the Mediator of God’s blessing to those under God’s curse for their sins. Trust Jesus as the last Adam, who obeyed God and won everlasting life when we have all earned eternal damnation.

Tous ceux qui passent par la première résurrection échappent à la deuxième mort.

When you encounter another person, when you have dealings with anyone at all, it is as if a question is being put to you. So you must think, what is the Lord asking of me in this moment, in this situation? If you confront insult or antagonism, your first impulse will be to respond in kind. But if you think, as it were, this is an emissary sent from the Lord, and some benefit is intended for me, first of all the occasion to demonstrate my faithfulness, the chance to show that I do in some small degree participate in the grace that saved me, you are free to act otherwise then as circumstances would seem to dictate. You are free to act by your own lights. You are freed at the same time of the impulse to hate or resent that person.

God is the author of all the good that you have had already, and all the good that you hope for in the future.

a God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministration of a Christ without a cross.

metaphysical attempts to suppress equivocation and ambiguity cleanse language the way some megalomaniacs cleanse races.

For if you are awaiting an opportunity, not for liberty to speak the truth, but for license to revile, may you remember Cicero, who says concerning some, “Oh, wretched are those at liberty to sin!”

dans le coeur, la vérité du Créateur livre bataille aux mythes des hommes

as before everything was a preparation for Christ, so afterward everything is to be a consequence of Christ.