Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

Managing games comes second. Managing people comes first.

Peter’s denial was not just a personal weakness. He was in a leadership position, honored as the one who spoke for the group, and was second in command (when Jesus wasn’t around). But his choice...

You cannot contain evil by shaming it, or making people feel guilty, but only by revealing it toward it is, and then seeing the good as better.

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

To listen to others quiets and disciplines the mind to listen to God.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more than he cared to face, if he gave in now.

You can get second things only by putting first things first,

We never move on from the cross. We only get a more profound understanding of the cross.

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the...

Be fervent in God, and let nothing grieve you, whatever you encounter.

Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.

I’m perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

We should be more concerned with reaching the lost than pampering the saved.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God’s Word.

To many, “The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop thinking about it after you have lived in the house for a few weeks.

The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?

There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who have gone a journey which I too may have to go, and of whom I ought to...

We can’t really explain what the goal of mentoring is, until we understand what the church is for.

There’s no such thing as a mistake, really. It’s just an opportunity to do something else.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Our nearness to the king in love is nearness to those who love not the king.

The author relates by way of illustration that the human heart contains both a throne and a cross. If we occupy the one, Jesus occupies the other.

You can’t keep playing lip service to God. You have to make a daily commitment to Love, Honor & Serve GOD.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Belief and confusion are not mutually exclusive; I believe that belief gives you the direction in the confusion. But you don’t see the full picture. That’s the point. That’s what faith is. You can’t see...

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

The author charted the importance of human examples on his spiritual journey, confessing that when harsh and domineering people based their bullying on Christ’s authority, he rebelled. But when his wife represented the gracefulness of...

All relationships are teleological, are going somewhere.

Jesus of Nazareth always comes asking disciples to follow him–not merely “accept him,” not merely “believe in him,” not merely “worship him,” but to follow him: one either follows Christ, or one does not. There...

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

We sucked in atheism with our canned milk.

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries.

Jesus enters the garden, in preparation, intending to face his fears by facing his God, his Father, His greatest fear is to offend his Father, to disobey his own calling, its integrity, and the word...

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

The Bible Belt is collapsing. The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, ‘you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,’...

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God’s Dream Society on earth, spreading out...

We think in terms of apostolic journeys. God dares to put His greatest ambassadors in chains.

I am lost and found in You.

Resurrection hope turned those who believed it into a counter-empire, an alternative society that knew the worst that tyrants could do and knew that the true God had the answer.

Happiness is activity of soul.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

Let us live not only to serve God ourselves; let us live to help our children and their children live for God.

We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word “servant”.

How my emotions starred as I played! During one of this tug-of-war contest between knowing right and doing wrong, I wrote the words to a song on my own for the first time.

We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.

That person has a cross to bear.” Granted, whatever kind of suffering we have is suffering that we can bear in confidence that God is with us. But the cross that Jesus had to face,...