The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by. N. T. Wright More Quotes by N. T. Wright More Quotes From N. T. Wright Learning to live as a Christian is learning to live as a renewed human being, anticipating the eventual new creation in and with a world which is still longing and groaning for that final redemption. N. T. Wright redemption finals christian Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. N. T. Wright spirituality justice joy Again and again the Sermon on the Mount calls and challenges us to a life of radical discipleship. Note: when Jesus says 'Blessed are the . . . . merciful, peacmakers', and so on, he doesn't just mean that they themselves are blessed. He means that the blessing of God's kingdom works precisely through those people into the wider world. That is how God's kingdom comes. That's one thing to hear afresh. N. T. Wright blessed mean jesus All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need or could have of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which, under the sovereign and wise rule of the creator God, decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child. N. T. Wright wise mother jesus Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project. N. T. Wright funny-easter easter-season jesus The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye. N. T. Wright swings eye long To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us. N. T. Wright jerusalem taken may Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice. N. T. Wright vices self way The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity. N. T. Wright generosity kingdoms jesus By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy N. T. Wright crazy writing song The resurrection completes the inauguration of God's kingdom. . . . It is the decisive event demonstrating thet God's kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven." "The message of Easter is that God's new world has been unveiled in Jesus Christ and that you're now invited to belong to it. N. T. Wright easter heaven jesus It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways. N. T. Wright healing christian art When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order N. T. Wright kings order jesus The whole point of what -Jesus was up to was that he was doing close up, in the present, what he was promising long-term in the future. And what he was promising for that future and doing in the present was not saving souls for a disembodied eternity but rescuing -people from the corruption and decay of the way the world presently is so they could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God’s ultimate purpose — and so they could thus become colleagues and partners in that large project. N. T. Wright long people jesus Easter was when Hope in person surprised the whole world by coming forward from the future into the present. N. T. Wright resurrection easter world For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer. N. T. Wright our-world prayer christian It's not great faith you need; it is faith in a great God. N. T. Wright greatness-of-god great-faith needs Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved N. T. Wright knees beloved feet If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self. N. T. Wright shadow self christian the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us. N. T. 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