This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings … - Mark Galli

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School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Mark Galli

This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.

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I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for us becomes increasingly blurry. . . As we look at [the martyrs], the mist that sometimes enshrouds first-century Golgotha is burned away, and we see. . . the Lord nailed to the cross.

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The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path.

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The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.

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To love with expectations is, in the end, an oppressive, driven thing, and people know it when they receive it. To love as God loves us--in freedom and with no strings attached--is a way to grant others a liberating gift.

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