Quotes about Redemption

God uses the talent pool available. None lived without sin and embarrassing failures. Yet somehow God used them to advance the cause of the kingdom.

We do not give up on the institution of family because of its imperfections-why give up on the church?

If reduced to a single phrase, the Bible's message would be something like this: God gets his family back. The Bible tells the story of how God, wanting to live in harmony with all that he had made, set out to win a rebellious world back to himself.

God does not seek the people most outwardly capable, nor the most naturally "good." He works with the most unlikely material so that everyone can see the glory is his and his alone.

Moralism apart from grace solves little.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

The Christian sees the world as a transitional home badly in need of rehab, and we are active agents in that project.

Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take

The sufferings of Jesus show us that pain comes to us not as punishment but rather as a testing ground for faith that transcends pain. In truth, pain redeemed impresses me more than pain removed.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.

God welcomes home anyone who will have him and, in fact, has made the first move already.

Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.