Join The Underlines // The Best Of What I Read
A batch of the best highlights from what Joshua's read, .
“There was a good reason the previous owners covered this all up!” I started saying over and over again. “It’s a lot easier to cover up brokenness than to restore it.”
Saturate
Jeff Vanderstelt
Epistle to Diognetus describes Christians as pilgrims and foreigners: “They live in their own countries, but only as nonresidents; they participate in everything as citizens, and endure everything as foreigners. Every foreign country is their fatherland, and every fatherland is foreign.”[34]
Desiring the Kingdom
James K. A. Smith
There’s no one who surrendered more freedom than Jesus, who went from the all-powerful second person of the Trinity to the vulnerable form of a helpless infant. He went from speaking the universe into existence by his Word to not being able to speak a word. This is what the Scriptures mean when they say that he “emptied himself” (Philippians 2:7).
The Common Rule
Justin Whitmel Earley
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