Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

It is not loving to impose our own grid onto others. We need to understand their situation and their needs accurately, and this comes from listening to them, not coming in with our own assumptions.

The Must be worthless by our estimation or keep us enslaved by an intemperate love of it.

Correction badly undertaken creates distance.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

It takes practice to stand with others facing pain of death, and it helps if you don’t have to do it all alone. We should practice on the small stuff so that we will be...

It is hard to hear God, but it is even harder not to hear God. The pain one brings upon oneself by living outside of evident reality is a greater and longer-lasting pain than the...

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the...

Worship may produce an outward change, but our inner condition will eventually be revealed

You will only learn in a fight how much you’ve got to learn.

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

if we are wayfarers who want to return home, then we must see the world as a means of transportation (terestibus vel marinis vehiculis) and always remember to distinguish the means and ends.

you turn into a shrewd tactician, making a series of cautious semicommitments without really surrendering to some larger purpose. You lose the ability to say a hundred noes for the sake of one overwhelming and...

A wilderness experience includes a long walk back.

Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

It took him (Washington) more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey...

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that person seriously. But without reasons, all we are left with is emotional blackmail. We sometimes call it ‘moral...

Because of the Resurrection, our natural reaction must be to get past our emotional reactions as quickly as possible and reflect on what happened in light of the cross and the resurrection and our own...

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?” Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer’s plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

Don’t get me wrong, I like NASCAR and shopping at Nordstrom’s, but discipleship is intrinsic as a lifestyle.”~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could withdraw only so much before it was necessary to stop, to take the time to make...

The evangelical wing of the Church spends a lot of energy on being “born again” but little time on “growing up” again. There is a failing to encourage newborn believers out of the maternity ward...

The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

Never was living beauty so enchanting as a dying Saviour.

Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession, absolution without personal confession. Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ,...

There was no keenness in the eyes; they seemed rather to be shedding love than making observations; they had the liquid look which tells that the mind is full of what it has to give...

Our awareness of God starts where self-sufficiency ends.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

Managing relationships (with start ups) is more like teaching.

When it comes to biblical counseling, friendship is central to the counseling relationship because it is a key aspect of the Gospel. Paul’s words display it; Jesus’ actions approve it. In Jesus Christ, friendship has...

As frustrating as the battle for purity must be, I suppose it’s easier if you’ve got company.

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for...

Jesus lived in occupied territory, in poverty and misery, and his stories and preaching are all about food, land, liberation from bondage and servitude and get. He preached about providing for those who lacked the...

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

I’m not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

It is easy to get faith into our heads. It is hard to get faith into our bloodstream.

I do not consecrate myself to be a missionary or a preacher. I consecrate myself to God to do His will where I am, be it in school, office, or kitchen, or wherever He may,...

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

Sex was to be treated as no other impulse in our nature has ever been treated by civilized people. All the others, we admit, have to be bribed. Absolute obedience to your instinct for self-preservation...

The overemphasis on standardized tests forces teachers to teach the same restricted, unintuitive curriculum. Longtime educator Brent Evans has said that today’s schools are organized as assembly lines, “(running at a set speed) and with...

You have the chief spark of your health’s fire, for you have true knowledge of the hand that guides the universe.

personal influence,” and gave his junior hints on the setting of kindly traps, in which the boy does give himself away and reveals his shy delicate thoughts, while the master, intact, commends or corrects them.Originally...

freedom of religion.

Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course by a clear sign, on seeing a tall beacon light or some mountain peak coming...