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Tag: Passion

  • Growing old, staying passionate

    Growing old, staying passionate

    Remember it is a remark of old and experienced men, that very few men and very few ministers keep up to the end the edge that was on their spirit at first. Andrew Bonar – Scottish Minister 1810-1892Click to Tweet

  • Revolutionary Christianity

    Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which will call the world evil and change it. Walter RauschenbuschClick to Tweet

  • The Cross is the blazing

    The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us John StottClick to Tweet

  • The glory of Sinai paled

    The glory of Sinai paled before the glory of Pentecost. Those tablets of stone with their “Thou Shaly not’s” are done away with, for they never brought life to anyone. The Lord has brought in a new covenant, putting His law in our minds and writing it in our hearts (Jer 31:33) – this new…

  • We should remember that the

    We should remember that the punishment Jesus bore was inflicted not by the Father but by those who crucified him. The abuse came not from divine but human hands. This is the point that Mel Gibson was trying to make during the filming of The Passion of the Christ. At a critical moment, when the…