Category Archives: Quotations

Outline of Keller's Sermon on Cultural Renewal

Posted on June 4, 2009 by PaulVK

This sermon was given in October of 2005 as part of Redeemer’s Vision series. The recordings were free on the web for a long time but now only some of them are available free. The remainder can be purchased at … Continue reading →

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NT Wright’s assertion of what Pentecost means

Posted on May 28, 2009 by PaulVK

From his Pentecost Sermon of 07 posted here: http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Pentecost07.htm “The disciples, filled with the Spirit, begin the work of Jesus’ sovereign and saving rule over the world, whose Lord he now is, by their shared common life, their works of … Continue reading →

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NT Wright on the meaning of the Ascension

Posted on May 28, 2009 by PaulVK

From NT Wright’s Pentecost sermon found at http://www.ntwrightpage.com/sermons/Pentecost07.htm “The early Christians, like their Jewish contemporaries, saw heaven and earth as the overlapping and interlocking spheres of God’s good creation, with the point being that heaven is the control room from … Continue reading →

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Dan Allender on Lament as the shadow side of faith

Posted on May 27, 2009 by PaulVK

This is from Philip Yancey’s book The Bible Jesus Read p. 128-129 To whom do you vocalize the most inense, irrational– meaning inchoate, inarticulate– anger? Would you do so with someone who could fire you or cast you out of … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Bailey on "do not bring us to the time of trial"

Posted on May 15, 2009 by PaulVK

When travelers take long camel trips into the deserts of the Middle East, they must have a guide. The guide knows how to reach the destination. Without that information the traveling party will die. From experience I know that selecting … Continue reading →

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How we instinctively define God's goodness

Posted on May 15, 2009 by PaulVK

“What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, “What does it matter so long as they are contented?” We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as … Continue reading →

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A God we can do business with

Posted on May 6, 2009 by PaulVK

Philip Yancey in his chapter on Deuteronomy in The Bible Jesus Read makes this point. BOQ When God makes a list of commandments, Love takes first place, the basis of his whole relationship with humanity. God meets in a tent … Continue reading →

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Laboring Not in Vain

Posted on May 6, 2009 by PaulVK

I find one of the most difficult aspects of the Christian life to communicate is the last verse of 1 Corinthians 15, the great resurrection chapter. 1 Corinthians 15:58 (NRSV) Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the … Continue reading →

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CS Lewis from God in the Dock

Posted on May 6, 2009 by PaulVK

The ancient man approaches God (or even the gods) as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. he is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if … Continue reading →

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Yancey on Job

Posted on May 6, 2009 by PaulVK

From The Bible Jesus Read p. 50 “By allowing us to glimpse behind the curtain in chapters 1 and 2, the author of Job forfeits all elements of narative tension but one: the mystery of how Job will respond. In … Continue reading →

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