“This message of salvation is honey made by industrious celestial bees, and they work in fields of clover the size of Jupiter. There is more than enough for you. This offer of the gospel places just a bit of it on the top of your tongue. There—do you taste it now? The Spirit and the …
Not a Minor Detail
“The plot against the Lord Jesus appeared to have gone perfectly, and the only thing that ruined it was that Jesus came back from the dead”
Our Real Problem with Creation
“We do not belong to ourselves because we did not make ourselves” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 120).
Anything Consistent with His Own Nature and Character
“God can do absolutely anything that is consistent with who He has always been” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 120).
Fatherhood the Font
“He is the eternal Father. Because we believe in Him, this means that we believe that fatherhood is the ultimate font of all things, the ultimate reality” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 120).
We Are Obtained
“People don’t go to Heaven. Heaven comes and gets us . . . Salvation, in order for it to occur at all, has to be a salvation that fetches us” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 117-118).
A Relationship That Is Alive
“Salvation is not about getting into the swankiest country club ever. It is not about manicured lawns, or drinking 80 proof ambrosia out of crystal cups. It is about the relationship between God and man” (Mere Fundamentalism, p. 116).
Enlarged for Joy
“Think of the love of God as a vast infinite ocean, an ocean of liquefied light. Our resurrection bodies are containers that have been specially fashioned to be able to hold it—to hold it in fullness, and without any leakage whatever. Now there is nothing mercenary about it if we discover that some saints lived …
Sounds Like a Bad Idea
“Suppose for a moment that God placed an invisible recording device around the neck of every last person, and this recording device was designed to record only those statements that consisted of moral evaluations of other people. Suppose further that God took these recordings from around the necks of all of us, distilled from those …
But Wanting Doesn’t Cut It
“Justice is the judge, and we want justice to be the defendant” (Mere Fundamentalism, pp. 111-112).