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Excerpts:“The core problem isn’t the fact that we’re lukewarm, halfhearted, or stagnant Christians. The crux of it all is why we are this way, and it’s because we have an inaccurate view of God.”“God doesn’t call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves…

Review of Conceived by the Holy Spirit by Rhyne R. Putman I grew up in a family that adored Christmas. Every December, once school let out, my mom would take me and my little brother to a small town in west Tennessee to spend a couple of weeks with her side of the family. On Christmas Eve,…

Excerpts:“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. I used to not like God because God didn’t resolve. But that was before any of this happened.”“Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.”“I want to be able to be in a room with somebody I don’t agree…

Excerpts:“The Bible is full of ordinary people who did extraordinary things because they trusted in an extraordinary God.”“When you have nothing left but God, you realize that God is enough.”“The Lord didn’t call us to be successful; He called us to be faithful.”

Summary Deep Reading: Practices to Subvert the Vices of Our Distracted, Hostile, and Consumeristic Age is a book co-authored by English professors Rachel B. Griffis, Julie Ooms, and Rachel M. De Smith Roberts. The book explores three major vices of the modern reading environment—distraction, hostility, and consumerism—and proposes a series of deep reading practices to help…

Excerpts:“The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.”“The question is not whether God can work through persecution, but whether we can trust Him enough to let Him.”“The insanity of God is that He loves the world so much that He gave His only Son.”

Excerpts:“The Christian gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me.”“If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry…

Excerpts:“The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.”“God is not a concept to be discussed; He is a person to be loved.”“The heart is the connecting point, the meeting place between any two persons.”

Excerpts:“I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.”“God’s love is a love that cannot be forced on anyone, but it is also a love that cannot be denied.”“The question is not ‘How am I to love God?’ but ‘How am I to let myself be loved…

Excerpts:“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies.”“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.”“The real underlying flaw in your life is that you don’t think that I am good.”