Jesus SwaggerBreak Free from Poser Christianity

JARRID WILSON

Jesus Swagger

Notes

1. Snoop Dogg, “Boss’s Life,” Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, Geffen Records (2006).

2. Urban Dictionary, s.v. “swagger,” definition 2, http://www .urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=swagger, accessed June 8, 2014.

3. Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi in W. P. King, review of The Christ of the Indian Road, by E. Stanley Jones, Atlanta Constitution, 7 February 1926, F14.

4. Francis Chan, Crazy Love (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2013), 63.

5. Joseph Thayer and G. Abbot Smith, The NAS New Treatment Greek Lexicon, s.v. “Ginosko,” http://www .biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/.

6. Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706), http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/matthew-henry-complete/.

7. Strong’s Concordance, s.v. “ekptuó,” http://biblehub.com/greek/1609.htm.

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8. Martin Luther, The Communion of the Christian With God, trans. Wilhelm Herrmann (London: Williams & Norgate, 1906), 332.

9. Origen, Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, Books 6–10, trans. Thomas P. Scheck (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2002), 228.

10. R. Kent Hughes, Romans: Righteousness From Heaven (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 1991), 250–51.

11. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “National Marriage and Divorce Rate Trends,” National Vital Statistics System, last updated February 19, 2013, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/marriage_divorce_tables.htm.

12. Mother Teresa, No Greater Love (Novato: New World Library, 2001), 69.

13. K. J. Bryer, “Mother Teresa,” in James Dixon Douglas and Philip Wesley Comfort eds., Who’s Who in Christian History (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1992).

14. Abigail Van Buren, “Dear Abby,” Park City Daily News, April 1, 1964, p. 3.

15. Charles Wood, Sermon Outlines on Great Doctrinal Themes (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1991), 15.

16. Of disputed origin, a paraphrase often attributed to Mahatma Ghandi.

17. C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (New York: Touchstone, 1996), 130–31.

18. Attributed to Alice Cooper, reportedly from a 2001 interview with the British Sunday Times.

19. NASA, “Failure is Not An Option,” http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2073.html.

20. From Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (Sony Pictures, 2006).

21. Tejvan Pettinger, “Dietrich Bonhoeffer,” Biography Online, http://www.biographyonline.net/spiritual/dietrich-bonhoeffer.html.

22. Merriam Webster Online, s.v. “trinity,” http://www .merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trinity.

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23. Martin H. Manser, ed., Dictionary of Bible Themes Scripture Index, s.v. “3010 God, the Holy Spirit,” available on BibleGateway.com, https://www.biblegateway.com/resources/dictionary-of-bible-themes/3010-God-Holy-Spirit.

24. Charles Stanley, God’s Way Day by Day (New York: HarperCollins Christian Publishers, 2007), 112.

25. R. A. Torrey, The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit (New York: Cosimo, repr. 1997), 112.

26. “Most Twentysomethings Put Christianity on the Shelf Following Spiritually Active Teen Years,” Barna Group, 2009, https://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/16-teensnext-gen/147-most-twentysomethings-put-christianity-on-the-shelf-following-spiritually-active-teen-years#.U_gpFbywKFk.

27. Jim Newheiser, Opening up Proverbs (Leominster: Day One Publications, 2008), 28.

28. Merriam-Webster Online, s.v. “fear,” http://www .merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fear.

29. The NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon, s.v. “Yare,’” Strong’s Number 3372, BibleStudyTools.com, http://www .biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/yare.html.

30. Oswald Chambers, quoted in Martin H. Manser ed., The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2001), 322.

31. William Gurnall, quoted in Martin H. Manser, ed., The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2001), 109.