Posted 6:35pm CT Jan. 15, 2008 in Minneapolis, USA
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Collected by Gloriscope

[M]y desire to be in the face of a pluralistic world and to say as publicly and as provocatively as I can that all authority in the universe belongs to Jesus Christ. It doesn’t belong to Mohammed, and it doesn’t belong to any Hindu god. It doesn’t belong to Moses. It belongs to Jesus Christ. And if you don’t bow the knee to him, you will perish. .

– John Piper, pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in an interview transcribed in the book The Supremacy of Christ in a Postmodern World, 2007, page 150.

At last I am well on the way to being a disciple. May nothing seen or unseen, fascinate me, so that I may happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs, crunching of the whole body, cruel tortures inflicted by the devil – let them come upon me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ. Of no use to me will be the farthest reaches of the universe or the kingdoms of this world. I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

– St. Ignatius (died 107), a Father of the Early Church, bishop of Antioch in Syria, in his Letter to the Romans

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TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!

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