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In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his London laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital after a summer holiday and noticed something peculiar. A petri dish...
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"Abiding in Christ is neither passive quietism nor frantic activism—it is living union. The branch doesn't strive to produce fruit, nor does it pretend fruit doesn't matter. It simply stays connected and fruit comes. This is the balanced Christian life:...
"YOU are the branch; Christ is YOUR Vine. Abide in HIM—personally, daily, continually. YOUR connection to Christ determines YOUR fruitfulness. No one can abide for you; no one can bear YOUR fruit. Stay close to Jesus; let HIS life flow through YOU." — Billy Graham.
"Love and fear cannot coexist—one DOMINATES! When God's love invades, fear has to FLEE! This isn't gentle; it's WARFARE! Love is aggressive against everything that threatens God's children! Command fear to GO in Jesus' name; receive the Father's LOVE that conquers all!" — Bill Johnson.
"God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God.
"We are not to imagine that there is any other way of access to the Father, for all intercourse between God and humanity has been cut off. Christ alone opens the door and is Himself the door.
"The gospel exceeds! We ask for forgiveness; God gives righteousness. We imagine acceptance; He gives sonship. We hope for mercy; He gives inheritance. Immeasurably more—this is grace upon grace. God's giving always exceeds our receiving." — Martin Luther. Lutheran: gospel overflow.
"Perfect love CASTS OUT fear—not gently removes but forcefully expels! Fear involves torment; love brings peace. As we grow in understanding God's love for us, fear diminishes. We love because He first loved us; we are fearless because we are loved." — Charles Spurgeon.
"The vine imagery is communal—branches connected to vine and to each other. Justice work apart from the Source withers; activism disconnected from Christ burns out. But communities rooted in Christ bear lasting fruit: sustainable justice, patient love, transformative witness." — Walter Brueggemann.
"Christ the Vine nourishes through His Body, the Church. We abide in Him through the sacraments: Eucharist is the life-sap flowing; confession removes what blocks the flow. The branches are connected to the Vine and to each other—this is ecclesial communion." — Pope Francis.
"Apart from Me—nothing. This is total dependence. The branch has no life of its own; all comes from the Vine. Union with Christ is everything: justification, sanctification, fruitfulness—all flow from being grafted into Him. Without this union, we are dead wood." — John Calvin.
"'I AM the Vine'—Christ Himself is the source of all spiritual life. Not Christ plus our effort; not Christ and our additions—Christ alone. The branches exist only in relation to the Vine; apart from Him, literally nothing. All Christian existence...