According to the Bible, the believer's relationship with God is not instigated through self-realization, but rather through faith in Jesus' sacrificial death and resurrection from the dead...
Despite the difficulties, I haven’t given up on the world because God hasn’t given me permission to do that.
God doesn’t want us to focus on what mankind has done, but on what He plans to do.
Jesus is the answer; to questions such as ‘Who is said to have walked on water?’, not our problems.
The impossible is not the place where we ran out of possibilities. Rather, it’s the place where we ran out of faith.
I came to the end of myself fighting to birth the beginning of a dream. But what really brought me to the end of myself was that I was foolish enough to fight for a dream without including the God that had given it to me.
Just when our understanding of God finally appears to have fallen comfortably into our childlike formulas, God lets us know that He’s not two things; a child or a formula.
Could it be that it’s not a belief in God that’s absurd, but rather it’s our perpetually limited understanding of God that’s really the thing that’s absurd.
Dear God, Guide my life today and every day. Wrap your hands around my heart, and allow me to live and speak with only kindness and love on my breath. In Jesus name. Amen.
It has nothing to do with what the mountain in front of us is. Rather, it has everything to do with what God is going to do to it.
If I am unable to believe that I am more than happenstance, I have chosen to behave as a person of accident verses standing as a man of purpose.
I don’t want to say that I believe in God. Rather, I want to live out my life like I believe in God because that takes the words that I choose not to say and it shouts them without ever saying them.
Pain believes itself to be the force that pushes everyone away. But God says that pain is the invitation that He could never throw away.
The battle is never fought alone even though we might feel alone in the fight, for with God the feeling of being alone never supersedes the fact of His presence.
Any refuge other than God is probably something that I should seek refuge from rather than seek refuge in.
But we live in a world that has lost its appreciation for small things. We live in a world that wants things bigger and bigger. We want to supersize our fries, sodas, and church buildings. But amid all the supersizing, many of us feel God doing something new, something small and subtle. This thing Jesus called the kingdom of God is emerging across the globe in the most unexpected places, a gentle whisper amid the chaos.
I felt so thirsty for God, so embarrassed by Christianity, and so ready for something more.
You guys are all into that born again thing, which is great. We do need to be born again, since Jesus said that to a guy named Nicodemus. But if you tell me I have to be born again to enter the kingdom of God, I can tell you that you have to sell everything you have and give it to the poor, because Jesus said that to one guy too…[And he paused in the awkward silence.] But I guess that’s why God invented highlighters, so we can highlight the parts we like and ignore the rest.
If I make something as small as myself, it will never be as great as I need it to be in order to help me quit being as small as I've chosen to be.
Genius is creating something and constructing within it the ability to build on itself in order to become what it was created to be, and as a result of that very process, never find an end to the creating.