Scripture Text: Matthew 19:28-40

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

J.I. Packer, Rediscovering Holiness

Just as there could be for Jesus no crown without the cross, so there can be for us no holiness without praise.

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

How absolutely central is the truth that we are first of all part of nature, though we are a very special part, that which is conscious of God. In solitude, one is entirely surrounded by beings which perfectly obey God.

N.T. Wright, Luke for Everyone

That was the way the pilgrims came, with Jesus going on ahead, as he had planned all along. This was to be the climax of his story, of his public career, of his vocation. He knew ...