Bulletin 2.23.25

"Jesus is both the rest and the storm, both the victim and the wielder of the flaming sword and you must accept him or reject him on the basis of both. Either you’ll have to kill him, or you’ll have to crown him. The one thing you can’t do is just say, “What an interesting guy.” Those teachers of the law who began plotting to kill Jesus at the end of this episode in the temple - they may have been dead wrong about him, but their reaction makes perfect sense."

                                                       - Jesus The King (Page 177) by Timothy Keller

"The more fully that the gospel is preached in the grand old apostolic way, the more likely is it to accomplish the results which it did in apostolic days. The gospel is the proclamation of free love, the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit our world; nothing else is so likely to touch the heart, to go down to the lowest depths of depraved humanity, as the assurance that the sinner has been loved - loved by God, loved with a righteous love, loved with a free love that makes no bargain as to merit, fitness, or goodness."

                                  - God’s Way of Holiness by Horatius Bonar (1808AD-1889AD)

The Prophet Habakkuk 3.16-19

Though the fig tree should not blossom
And there be no fruit on the vines,
Though the yield of the olive should fail
And the fields produce no food,
Though the flock should be cut off from the fold
And there be no cattle in the stalls,
Yet I will exult in the LORD,
I will rejoice in the God of my salvation.
The Lord GOD is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds' feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.

(Prayer)