“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the […]
John 17:22-23, “The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you
John 17:11, “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.” In 17:6 Christ says that He has manifested the Father’s Name to those whom the Father has given Him. Now in verse 11 He asks that those same ones
Luke 9:23, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.” To take up our cross means to follow after Jesus Christ–the Beautiful One who has satisfied our soul, who is the End of all our Desiring, who is Divine Love incarnate. It means to press
1 Timothy 3:16, “Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.”
1 Timothy 2:5-6, “For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all…” Racist dissonance turns to Ethnic harmony only under the ransoming blood of Christ.
Matthew 24:9, “…you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake.” Christian, the world does not primarily hate our morals, it does not primarily hate our sub-culture, it does not primarily hate our worldview – the world primarily hates our GOD….and that is why it hates–and will increasingly hate–those who love and
Colossians 2:18-19, “Let no one disqualify you…not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.” ALL Christian growth and unity comes from this single thing: Holding fast to the biblically-revealed Christ, who is the Head
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John 15:7 “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you…” Intimate, abiding relationship with Christ is word based.
Romans 11:17, “some of the branches were broken off, and you…now share in the nourishing root.”
John 15:4, “Abide in me and I in you.” At the heart of Christian community is individual intimacy with Christ.
– Romans 8:17-21- We are glorified with Christ, Creation is glorified with us; Christ is the spear head of the New Creation
Romans 6:11, “So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.”
1 John 4:4,”…you are from God and have overcome them, for He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.”
Galatians 2:20,”I have been crucified with Christ…the life I now live I live by faith in the Son of God…”
