The future is given to those who are experienced in groaning. The future is denied to those who have been cynical and calloused and self-deceiving enough to rejoice in the present ordering and are unable to grieve about the ruin toward which the royal community is headed.... The staggering works of Jesus - feeding, healing, casting out, forgiving - happened not to those who held to the old order but to those who yearned because the old order had failed them or squeezed them out. - Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination
The Presence of the Kingdom - 9.14.25 | Rev. Chris Currie
When we submit our lives to what we read in Scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves. - Eugene Peterson, Eat This Book
Judgement & Mercy - 9.7.25 | Rev. Chris Currie
There is mystery in God. If God could be fit into our puny human minds, or limited to our experience of him, or contained in our theological description of his ways, he would be too small a God to worship. - R. Paul Stevens and Michael Green, Living the Story: Biblical Spirituality for Everyday Christians