Sermon Text: Hebrews 12:1-17

Bryan Buck

Quotes for Reflection

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to.

John of the Cross, The Ascent to Mount Carmel

One dark night,

fired with love’s urgent longings

-ah, the sheer grace!-

I went out unseen,

my house being now all stilled.

Dane Ortlund, Deeper

Our natural instinct tell us that the way forward in the Christian life is by avoiding pain so that, in distracted, we can get down to the business at hand of growing in Christ. The New Testament tell us again and again, however, that pain is a means, not an obstacle, to deepening in Ch ...