“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.” PeopleThinkingMenMeanSometimesHardFormSufferingRoomsFireHolyMen And WomenDifficultyPreparedBurningFlamesRescueRefinedHazingLooking For A Man Author:Mark Galli
“I sometimes wonder whether our churches--living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses--are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.” PeopleSometimesHelpingCultureChurchWonderPraiseDenialHelping PeopleChorus Book:Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit Source: Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit
“I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry... As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see...the Lord nailed to the cross.” FirstsBelieveLooksSometimesRealityChristLordGenerationsCenturyCrossesBurnedMartyrMistMartyrdomBlurryGolgotha Author:Mark Galli
