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Scott W. Sunquist calls the American church to observe the diversity in ecclesiologies around the world.

We ought to remain pilgrims in a time of partisans.

Los derechos de los migrantes han pasado desapercibidos para muchos cristianos panameños. Pero a medida que aumentan las presiones, algunos se pronuncian antes de las elecciones generales de este fin de semana.

Migrant rights have been off-radar for many Panamanian Christians. But as pressures increase, some are speaking out ahead of this weekend’s general elections.

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”

“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.”

“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.”

“I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand on the earth.”

“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!”

“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.””

The plan would organize UMC churches in four global regions, with each given more leeway around same-sex marriage and other theological issues.

“Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.”

Grupos como Hillsong aprenderam a deixar de lado o literalismo, em favor da colaboração criativa.

“To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.”

After lobbying from fellow Southern Baptists and Christians affected by the war, the House speaker moves a package forward.

“For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.”

C.S. Lewis recommended discernment over diatribes in exactly the moments we’re most eager to indulge in critique.

“It is written: “‘As surely as I live,’ says the Lord, ‘every knee will bow before me; every tongue will acknowledge God.’””

“For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.”

“I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.””