Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don’t know the characters and can’t make sense of the plot.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: sin creation evangelism
The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: relationships trinity
Morality is always derivative. It stems from one's worldview.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: morality ethics philosophy
A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: faith apologetics creationism
Author conveys contemporary respect for Methodist preachers who rode the circuit of frontier settlements to put themselves at risk for the Gospel near the Second Great Awakening. They were dubbed 'God's light artillery'.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: zealotry evangelism
In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: discipleship
Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.
Nancy R. PearceyThe sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons," author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men's ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction as women's work.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: leadership fatherhood
We need to understand enough of modern thought to identify the ways it blocks us from living out the Gospel the way God intends, both in terms of intellectual roadblocks and in terms of economic and structural changes that make it harder to live by Scriptural principles.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: apologetics worldview
We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.
Nancy R. PearceyTags: fear selfishness anxiety
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