We are caught in the in between of what we already are what we are yet to be.

I must first have the sense of God’s possession of me before I can have the sense of His presence with me.

On Christ’s attitude toward His disciples: “If I gave away My big all to get to you, can you give away your little all to follow Me?

Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nature of God, humanity, and the world.

Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s the wonderful thing, it gets done along the way as you do discipleship. Great commission is just...

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

My life is too short, and God’s work is too great for me to think of making a home for myself in this world.

We have the “spotless Lamb of God” bound up in a human body. This is the One who loved us so much that He was willing to reduce Himself to a human egg. The Immaculate...

The repentance we are called to is about choosing one audience over another.

Shoddy work is not just shoddy work. It’s a failure of love.

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,

God’s way leads always into trial, so far as sight and sense are concerned. Nature always will be tried in God’s ways.

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn around the life of a child or an adult in any consistent way, but if you can surround a...

No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.

Because we don’t know the state of our children’s souls, and because they might simply want to please us by praying to be saved, we must continue to give them the Law and encourage them...

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

I knew that (job) had to be a humbling role for my dad, but he never allowed it to become humiliating work.

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.

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.

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...