"…we usually read the Bible as a series of disconnected stories, each with a ‘moral’ for how we should live our lives. It is not. Rather, it comprises a single story, telling us how the human race got into its present condition, and how God through Jesus Christ has come and will come to put things right. In other words, the Bible doesn’t give us a god at the top of a moral ladder saying, ‘If you try hard to summon up your strength and live right, you can make it up!’ Instead, the Bible repeatedly shows us weak people who don’t deserve God’s grace, don’t seek it, and don’t appreciate it even after they have received it. If that is the great biblical story arc into which every individual scriptural narrative fits, then what do we learn from this story?" -Tim Keller, Counterfeit Gods, pp. 36-37 (personal emphasis added)
How do you read your Bible? Is your righteousness through faith in Christ (Romans 1:17, Galatians 3:11)? Or are you climbing the moral ladder?
Comrades, here comes the revolution: The Democratic Socialists want to gut
the Constitution, empty the jails, erase the borders, eliminate the Senate,
fire the president, and press for a full revolution. Does the Democratic
Party have a clue?
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Brace yourselves for a political transformation that will completely
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