Christian denominationalism — a modern phenomenon — is often read back into the ‘unity in Christ’ passages found in the NT.

Yet, Paul doesn’t know a single Calvinist or Dispensationalist. The unity in view is Gentile disciples and Jewish disciples. -Bill Scofield

“God is going to enjoy his new universe, and we’ll enter into his joy. Since we’ll draw from the reservoir of God’s being, which never runs dry, we’ll never run out of passion and joy.” –Randy Alcorn

Francis Schaeffer: "Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation: loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.”

I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets...I have done nothing wrong against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.

- Paul

...for the whole biblical witness the kingdom is an eschatological gift of God, which is not directly constructable by men.

- BT Viviano, The Kingdom of God in History

“You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.” Song of Solomon 4:7

Flawless. When will there be such a bride?

“Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without blemish.” Ephesians 5:25–27

-John Piper

Everything reproduces after its kind, including the gospel we preach.

If we preach a compromised, diluted "gospel," we get compromised, diluted "disciples." If we preach an uncompromised, undiluted gospel, we get uncompromised, undiluted disciples. - Dr. Micheal Brown

You and I are unavoidably and irreducibly hope-based creatures. We are controlled not how we live now, but what we think will happen later. Christian hope has to do with the ultimate future, not the immediate. -Timothy Keller

Apologetics should not only be about demonstrating the logic or rationality of a biblical idea. We also need to show people why the idea is beautiful and transformative, and how it can help them.

Many people are saved because they see the glory of the Messiah. Fewer are talked into it. - Travis M. Snow

Jerusalem—built as a city that is bound firmly together, to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, as was decreed for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. There, thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David. Psalm 122:3-5

Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Matthew 19:28

“Whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.” James 5:20

Because the sinner comes back to the one who bore his sins (1 Peter 2:24–25). We cover by bringing to the one who covers. -John Piper

“The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.” John 3:29–30

When he comes every humble shepherd will be a happy sheep. -John Piper

The resurrection means everything sad is going to eventually come untrue and it will somehow be greater for once being broken and lost. - Timothy Keller

Christian exegetical tradition has more often than not interpreted "your kingdom come" in terms of the presence of God's kingdom and sometimes of the liturgical experience itself.

Here it has, from an exegetical point of view, not been on target... - Dale Allison

 My teaching on Jesus and his city from Psalm 48. Notes. Audio1, Audio2

 As the Spirit of God is both the agent and the sustainer of creation, so also the Spirit of God is the inspirer of the word of God, which sets out the hope of restored creation. The scriptures progressively reveal a number of themes that function symbiotically within the divine testimony. Particularly, the language of life, salvation, blessing, and glory build together unto their consummation on the day of the Lord and in the age to come. -John P. Harrigan

 

The meaning of our text (Ez. 37) is, if words mean anything, 1st, that there shall be a political restoration of the Jews to their own land/nationality; and secondly, there is in the text a declaration, that there shall be a spiritual restoration of the tribes of Israel. -Spurgeon

"Cultivating a responsive heart of extravagant devotion to Jesus takes time and effort. It is something that we do deliberately, not something we cultivate on the run." —Mike Bickle

"Rather, we should think that obedience is going deeper in debt to God every moment, because it takes more grace to be obedient this afternoon than I had yesterday." -John Piper

“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” John 3:14–15

The viper of sin has bitten us all. The venom is lethal. There is only one remedy. Christ. Look and live! -John Piper

Lose the covenants, lose the gospel. -Joshua Reese

God's history with Israel and the nations is the permanent and enduring medium of God's work as the Consummator of human creation, and therefore it is also the permanent and enduring context of the gospel about Jesus. - Soulen

Either people are a commodity to make money,

Or money is a commodity to reach people. God or Mammon.

-Gabe Cali

In Jesus we're given a Second Adam not a second chance. - Timothy Keller

"The future of all nations is bound up with the future of Israel, when our Lord Jesus Christ shall return for their conversion, and bring them into all the blessings of New Covenant truth." -David Baron, "The Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel, p. 157

“To be spiritually alive is to live in repentance. Spiritually dead are those Christians who never weep over their sins or who have long ceased to do so. Dead - in God's eyes - are those Christians who can no longer rejoice over God's forgiveness." - Basilea Schlink

You’ll never manage to praise Jesus in the glorious manner He deserves (Nehemiah 9:5), but give it your best shot! - Bob Sorge

“And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pomp of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.” Isaiah 13:19

Great reversals are coming. Stand patiently, humbly, confidently with Christ. -John Piper

Why are the saints in heaven in Revelation 7:9 holding palm branches in their hands?

Because they are ready to do Psalm 118:27.

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