My Redeemer Lives (2)
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Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
“Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
no-one?
leaving ever
54 God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
Timothy Keller
The Reason for God (2008)
Timothy Keller
Ultimately false prophets tear down faith (2 Tim 2:18) and promote divisiveness, bitterness (e.g., 1 Tim 6:4–5; 2 Tim 2:23), and various kinds of ungodliness (2 Tim 2:16)
D. A. Carson
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
—Helen Keller
Helen Keller
Tim Keller observes that the prayer of the father is characterized by honesty, helplessness, hopefulness, specificity, and passion (“Mark,” 112). These character traits of believing prayer can be summed up in one word: humility.
Daniel L. Akin
11 In Jesus Christ, God experienced the greatest depths of pain. Therefore, though Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, it provides deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair.
Timothy Keller
The Reason for God (2008)
Timothy Keller
The cross is the place where the irreconcilable can be reconciled.
N. T. Wright