Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers

“Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.”

EmotionRenewalSanctificationRegeneration

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“We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.”

BibleWord Of GodDiscipleship

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“When it comes to doing something about what is wrong in the world, Jesus is best known for his fondness for the minute, the invisible, the quiet, the slow – yeast, salt, seeds, light. And manure.”

PatienceTimingDiscipleshipSubtlety

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“The Holy Spirit's instruments have no consciousness of His purpose; if they imagine they have, it is a pretty sure token that they are NOT His instruments. Nathaniel Hawthorne”

MysteryHumilityMinistry

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“The truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind. Emily Dickinson”

HumilityCommunicationGraciousness

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“Apart from childhood and crisis, prayers have a way of being abstracted from the homely and distinctive details that are part and parcel of our ordinary and daily life.”

HumilityPride

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“I want my prayers, and the prayers of my friends, to ricochet off the rock faces of mountains, reverberate down the corridors of shopping malls, sound ocean deeps, water arid deserts, find a foothold in fetid swamps, encounter poets as they search for the accurate word, mingle their fragrance with wildflowers in Alpine Meadows, sing with the looms of Canadian lakes.”

OpennessGlory Of God

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“Jesus didn't debase the holy into the secular; He infused the secular with the holy.”

OpennessEvangelism

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“Spontaneities offer one kind of pleasure and taste of sanctity, repetitions another equally pleasurable and holy.”

HabitDisciplineRoutineDiscipleship

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“I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.”

ActivismMinistrySocial Gospel

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