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Russell D. Moore

Maybe such questions bothered me so much because they are being asked about me, all the time, within the echo chamber of my own fallen psyche and by unseen rebel angels all around. Are you really a son of the living God? Does your God really know you? Does this biblical story really belong to you? Are these really your brothers and sisters? Do you really belong here?…

Russell D. Moore

A Christian understanding of the world sees a child’s character not as genetically determined but as shaped to a significant degree by parental discipleship and discipline.

discipleship, discipline, parenting

Russell D. Moore

The problem with carnal anger and outrage is that it’s one of the easiest sons to commit while convincing oneself that he is being faithful.

anger, evangelism, faithful

Russell D. Moore

If the apostles reminded even Paul himself to remember the poor (Galatians 2:10), then surely the rest of us need such a reminder.

activism, evangelism, poverty

Russell D. Moore

The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared.

confidence, defensiveness, evangelism, sovereignty-of-god

Russell D. Moore

All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don’t suffer, but that we assume that only Third World Christians or heroic missionaries are suffering. My boys didn’t know that they were suffering in Russia; they would feel it as suffering now.

Russell D. Moore

We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants… and their hostages.

compassion, discipleship, spiritual-warfare

Russell D. Moore

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, ‘you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,’ is soon to be gone. Good riddance.

christianity, conservatism, discipleship, status-quo

Russell D. Moore

Every human being is, by definition, a theologian.

Russell D. Moore

In his temptation of Jesus, Satan quoted Scripture, and he didn’t remember, misquote anything. God wants his children to eat bread, not to starve before stones. God will protect his anointed one with the angels of heaven. God will give his Messiah all the kingdoms of the earth. All this is true. What is satanic about all of this, though, is that Satan wanted our Lord to grasp these things apart from the cross and the empty tomb.

jesus-christ, temptation, tempted-and-tried

Russell D. Moore

We don’t persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our increasingly odd view of marriage, and by serving the world and our neighbors around us, as our Lord does, with a towel and a foot-bucket.

marriage, politics, protest

Russell D. Moore

We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe, though. We sit in our pews, or behind our pulpits, knowing that our children watch “Christian” cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates and know all the right “worldview” talking points. And we’re content with the world we know, just adjusted a little for our identity as Christians. That’s precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers, why our prayers rarely reach the level of “groanings too deep for words” (Rom 8:26). We are too numbed to be as frustrated as the Spirit is with the way things are.

contentment, prayer