We all need role models in different seasons, people we look to who bring encouragement for the journey. Every role model but One will fail. If we get up-close we will see that each one...

a place where the person you least want to live with always lives.” His definition applies equally to the group that gathers each Thanksgiving and the group that congregates each Sunday morning. (p. 64-65, Church:...

I realized that I could never really function fully on this earth until I understood this: Until you know WHOSE you are, you will never know WHO you are.

to the glory of His name let me witness that in far away lands, in loneliness (deepest sometimes when it seems least so), in times of downheartedness and tiredness and sadness, always always He is...

Being a Christian is not an excuse to checkout from REALITY.

…I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper…that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

God doesn’t demand from you what He hasn’t committed to your hands…yes

Attempting the impossibility with a possibility God breaks the impossibility barriers.

When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.

Faith reminds us that change is always possible.

When you spend time in the presence of God, you will experience everlasting peace and joy.

Life is uncertain. We can never predict when hard times shall strike.

Keep believing.Keep trusting.Keep praying.

My greatest wish; to walk humbly with God.

Prayer is a perfect harmony with God.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Don’t neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life.

So you can’t demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you’ll make it worse. What is needed is healing.

When God hears us worshipping Him, that alone makes Him feel worthwhile to be God!

El amor de Cristo nos ayuda a mirar más allá del amor de otros.

To effectively combat the devil, you need to pray.

And then, just as quickly, the clouds returned, leaving us to walk by faith, not by sight.

Trauma’s storm can mask the Christ and feelings can lie. I draw all the hurting voices close and I tough their scars with a whisper: sometimes we don’t fully see that in Christ, because of...

God created every heart, every person for relationship. Connection has the power to both impact a person’s life today as well as their eternal destiny.

Our greatest moral regrets are always preceded by a series of unwise choices.

Prayer is simply a constant communion with Christ.

Sometimes you must stand still in order to get moving to where GOD wants you to go.

When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value.

Do you want to be safe from the influence, ways, and lusts of the world and the flesh (I John 2:16)? From the sins which so easily entangles us (Hebrews 12:1)? Then delight in yourself...

It is finished ” is the Greekword tetelestai. Tetelestaicomes from the verb teleo, which means to bring to an end, to complete,to accomplish.In the times of Jesus, receipts often had the word tetelestaiwritten on them....

God is our great helper.

Believe and have faith in God.

? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus...

I am redeemed and saved by grace.

In all your course, walk with God and follow Christ as a little, poor, helpless child, taking hold of Christ’s hand, keeping your eye on the mark of the wounds on his hands and side,...

Plant in tears, harvest with joy.

Forgiveness is most Christlike when it is given to the undeserving.

Monastic spirituality concentrated on private disciplines, as if detaching oneself from “the world” (i.e. society) might make one holier. Anabaptist piety was similar in that regard. However, Calvin thought of sanctification as a family affair....

It seems to me that if God felt it best to delay marriage into the latter part of your twenties, He would also see fit to delay the hormonal urge to want to have sex....

The more the level of insecurity is reduced, the more the level of faith will grow.

In our day heaven and earth are on tiptoe waiting for the emerging of a Spirit-led, Spirit-empowered people. All of creation watches expectantly for the springing up of a disciplined, freely gathered, martyr people who...

Hence the vocation of the Church of Christ in the world, in political conflict and social strife, is inherently eschatological. The Church is the embassy of the eschaton in the world. The church is the...

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

You are not the family you were born into. Your family is not the making of you, God is!

Hang out with successful people and you’ll acquire success characters

Your attitude determines your altitude and your altitude your accolades, access and success.

If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

God’s grace will not take you where it cannot keep you.

When we have the same thought again, the line of the original thought is deepened, causing what’s called a memory trace. With each repetition the trace goes deeper and deeper, forming and embedding a pattern...

In all circumstances, we must let God be in control. He is able to guide us in the best pathways.