“We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside the Word of God for the sake of our tradition”
“The spirit of Judas is the same with that of Delilah. Judas could not love Jesus and Delilah could not love Samson because money have exchanged hands and a contract of death was signed. Beware of both!!!”
“Armaggedon Buenos Aires Before going to Jesus, I was Jesus. Before going to Shiva, I was Shiva. Before going to the Great Mother, I was the Great Mother. You know…. Before the Awakening the Real Awakening is be an not born.”
“Jesus took upon Him the sins of the past, took upon Him the sins of the present times, and those of the future.”
“[THE DAILY BREATH] Do you feel unworthy? Undeserving to be loved, to feel enough, to fulfil your dreams? A scientific study performed worldwide during the last 40 years revealed that most people, regardless of their background, live feeling unworthy. If you are one of them, I know something else about you. If you feel unloved or unworthy, chances are you also don t care, don t believe or you are just not interested in your truthful relationship with your Heavenly Father. Because you looked away from God, you forgot who you are. Do you not know that what you behold, you become? You become what you look upon. When you look at the world, you can only struggle to find something to make you feel valuable. Yet you cannot find anything because everything this world has to give you is worthless and valueless. You are not of this world, but as you look upon it to find value, you become what look upon: emptiness. When you look to Heaven, you remember your Home. You remember you are not an orphan in this world. You remember you belong to your Heavenly Father who loves you and has never left you. He loved you even when you turned your eyes away from Him and ran away from home. Return. As you behold and keep your eyes on Heaven, you become what you look upon: Love. Behold Jesus and live.”
“Lengo kuu la Shetani kuingilia uumbaji wa Mungu kwa kutumia Succubus na Incubus ni kumzuia Yesu asirudi kwa mara ya pili. Anajua akiingilia uumbaji huo na kuwafanya watu wote wawe na roho za kishetani, wokovu hautakuwa na maana, Yesu hatakuwa na mtu wa kumwokoa atakaporudi kwa mara ya pili.”
“The Kingdom of God is being established in this world, absolutely, but it s foolish to think that this is happening through rainbows and unicorns. Instead, Scripture teaches us that we are at war--not against people but against powers and principalities. With our freedom comes risk... We aren t immune from suffering or excused from the experience of being human simply because of our faith... And the truth remains: the crucified God, as personified in Jesus, revealed that God is always on the side of suffering wherever it is found and God s endgame is resurrection.”
“Yesu alikuwa binadamu ili afe kama binadamu kwa ajili ya binadamu. Alikufa msalabani ili sisi wote tuokoke. Lakini Shetani hataki hilo litokee. Akiingilia uumbaji wa Mungu toka tumboni mwa binadamu, binadamu atakayezaliwa hatakuwa na uwezo wa kuongoka. Atakuwa na roho ya jini itakayomjua Shetani badala ya kumjua Mungu. Hivyo kurudi kwa Yesu kwa mara ya pili hakutakuwa na maana, kwa sababu hakutakuwepo na mtu wa kuokolewa.”
“Shetani hawezi kujua unafikiria nini: 1 Wafalme 8:39. Yesu anajua unafikiria nini: Yohana 2:25. Shetani haweza kufanya jambo bila ruhusa ya Mungu: Mathayo 4:1. Shetani hawezi kukulazimisha kutenda dhambi: Yakobo 4:7. Pigana na mwindaji wa roho hadi roho yako ikombolewe.”
“On Christmas Eve a child will be born for us, a child who will give us love - that s what an angel said; and suddenly out of the darkness comes a light.”
“This is the homely heart of Incarnation, this meeting of God in man with men and women, this simple face of divine graciousness in ordinary life rather than in the hymns of church fathers or in the dry elaborations of theologians.”
“In the midst of pain, we begin to understand the price Jesus paid for our salvation.”
“If you read Scripture scholar Marcus Borg and go to the index in search of sinner, it ll say, see outcast. This was a social grouping of people who felt wholly unacceptable. The world had deemed them disgraceful and shameful, and this toxic shame, as I have mentioned before, was brought inside and given a home in the outcast. Jesus strategy is a simple one: He eats with them. Precisely to those paralyzed in this toxic shame, Jesus says, I will eat with you. He goes where love has not yet arrived, and he gets his grub on. Eating with outcasts rendered them acceptable.”
“I said, I ll tell you about shit, Roebuck. Take it from an expert. There s two main things about it. One thing is it s stink and corruption and waste. The other thing is if you don t pile it up too thick in any one place, it makes the seeds grow. I said, Roebuck, God s where there s seeds growing. God s where there s something no bigger than the head of a pin starting to inch up out of the stink and dark of shit towards the light of day. I said, Roebuck, God so loved the world he sent his only begotten son down there into the shit with the rest of us so something green could happen, something small and green and hopeful .”
“Baby Jesus, meek and mild, pray for me, an orphan child. Be my strength, be my friend, be with me until the end. Amen.”
“To be human is nothing less than to be caught in the great congested pilgrimage of existence and to join ourselves freely to it in the face of the evidence of its never-ending troubles.”
“I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. Lower the Law and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt; this is a very serious loss to the sinner rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion. I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [its most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ. they will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore, the Law serves a most necessary purpose, and it must not be removed from its place. The Law cuts into the core of evil, it reveals the seat of the malady and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within. They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.”