Easter Sunday - The Tethered Life [Ryan Ashley]
Luke 24:13-32
“Without that we die, whether you live in an Auschwitz or in a luxury apartment downtown.”
Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search For Meaning
“We substituted and deified nation for God. Americans looked increasingly to the nation, not to God, as the source of justice, mercy, and hope.”
Andrew Delbanco - The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
“Our hope is now for individual freedom to pursue our own private ideas for good and discover our authentic selves.”
Tim Keller – Counterfeit gods
“What oxygen is to the lungs hope to the meaning of life.”
Emil Brunner
To Have Hope: A conviction of a coming good based on reality, not on wishful thinking.
“When that story leads somewhere . . . it gives us hope. Not a sense of optimism that the economy will pick up, or that we’ll land the promotion we’ve been working toward, or that our children will grow up healthy and happy. Hope is a deep sense of comfort that saturates our soul when we believe that our lives are a part of something larger. Hope inhabits us when we see our lives as enmeshed in a larger story that reassures us that life is more than simply about filling time until we die.”
Andrew Delbanco - The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with but one purpose in mind: to make brand-new creations. Not to make people with better morals, but to create a community of prophets and professional lovers, men and women who would surrender to the mystery of the fire of the Spirit that burns within, who would live in ever greater fidelity to the omnipresent Word of God, who would enter into the center of it all, the very heart and mystery of Christ, into the center of the flame that consumes, purifies, and sets everything aglow with peace, joy, boldness, and extravagant, furious love. This, my friends, is what it really means to be a Christian. Our religion never begins with what we do for God. It always starts with what God has done for us, the great and wondrous things that God dreamed of and achieved for us in Christ Jesus.” - Brennan Manning
