I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
–1 CORINTHIANS 1:10 (ESV)–

Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
–PSALM 133:1 (ESV)–

Aim for restoration, comfort one another, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.
–2 CORINTHIANS 13:11 (ESV)–

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Fear, it’s all the same
Should I evolve to tend to these sights
Said out loud then said again
If fate’s so wrong you’ll start to feel light-headed

By my admission nothing grows
Just a longer list of unsorted laws

So why then has all my life made no sound?
And are your eyes closing even now?
My life made no sound
I fear your eyes closing

Revolting man, this sacred chain
Brought down to trial
No better man could fail the way
You needed all, keep close the vein of empty thoughts

The finest river, the ravens tend
All along insisting, we’re worlds away

So why then has all my life made no sound?
And are your eyes closing even now?
My life made no sound
I fear your eyes closing

Behold the cross
Behold a Band-Aid
Behold the lost
Behold a Band-Aid

These shameful metaphors
Fought it through the teeth
Shameful metaphors
Biting at your heels
Shameful metaphors
Fought it cheek to cheek

So why then has all my life made no sound?
(These shameful metaphors)
And are your eyes closing even now?
My life made no sound
(These shameful metaphors)
I fear your eyes closing

–Chevelle, “Shameful Metaphors”–

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John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Hendrickson, 2008). Catholic theologians favorably referred to: Sts. Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Chrysostom, Cyprian, Gregory the Great, and Bernard of Clairvaux.

Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994). Catholic theologians favorably referred to: Sts. Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, Gregory the Great, and Leo the Great.

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1984).

Dr. J. I. Packer and Mark Dever, In My Place Condemned He Stood (Crossway, 2008).

Dr. Channing Crisler, 40 Questions On the Atonement (Kregel, 2025).

Dr. Ronald Bowdle, Redemption Accomplished and Applied (Pathway Press, 1972).