Theology That Bites Back
“Grant us right now the revival of ages—
Just nod Your head, and it will be done.
Just nod Your head, and it is done for Your now.
All it would take from You is a word.
I pray that Your Spirit would fall down upon us
From unlikely directions, from every direction.
Surprise us, I ask. Upend us, I pray.
Completely undo us, and remake us all over . . .
Build a great church here, a tower of grace,
With thousands upon thousands of stones that are living.”
21 Prayers, p. 93
“I argue here for a principled abandonment of the disastrous experiment of secularism, and for a corporate confession of the fact that Jesus rose from the dead, and all done in such a way as to preserve and protect our liberties.”
Mere Christendom, p. xi
“Culture and societies and generations need Christ also. The Lord Jesus Christ is not just the answer to our personal dilemma. He is the eternal Logos of God, and as such, He is the spoken Answer to every legitimate question that any given society might pose, or all of mankind for that matter. His Lordship applies to politics, culture, entertainment, media, and His answers to our rebellions and follies are just exactly what we need to hear.”
Mere Christendom, p. x
“I ask for anointing, I ask for authority,
I ask for Your Spirit to make the appointment
Where You meet with Your people in truth and in triumph.”
21 Prayers, p. 92
“We think that our cultural disintegration has to be more in the grand style—kind of like a Super Bowl halftime gone wrong, as being watched by someone who had just dropped a couple of hits of contaminated acid.”
Mere Christendom, p. ix
“We worship You now, You are God the great Writer,
And Christ, the Lord Jesus, is our God the Written,
And Your doubled Spirit is God the pure Reader.”
21 Prayers, p. 91
“I don’t agree with Manifest Destiny, but I still live in Idaho.”
American Milk & Honey, p. 202
“Crack open our hearts and pour in Your Spirit.
As we open Your Word, as we open our Bibles.”
21 Prayers, p. 89
“The gospel is the message that through Christ—through His sinless life, His death, burial, and resurrection—Israel finally got it right. Because of Christ, and through faith in Him, the incident with the golden calf can be forgotten forever.”
American Milk & Honey, p. 197
“The apostle Paul taught that the blessings to an obedient Israel in Deuteronomy are promises that are available to Gentiles through Christ (Eph. 6:2). This reality is the hinge upon which his argument in Romans 11 turns.”
American Milk and Honey, p. 194
