“Followers of Jesus need to commit to times of intentional solitude, with all artificial noises blocked out and adequate time to focus on God scheduled in.”- Jared C. Wilson “Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.”- Colossians 4:2 Jared Wilson continues Chapter 5 of The Imperfect Disciple as he discusses the proper […]
“Nor do we think to speak to him [God] in much more than sound-bite prayers. We can’t think to do so, because we don’t make the time to think of much more than sound bites to say.”- Jared C. Wilson “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.”- Luke 5:16 (NIV) In Chapter 5 […]
“It turns out that hearing is believing. It turns out, actually, that to see we first have to hear. But to really hear we have to really listen.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 4 of The Imperfect Disciple as he reiterates the most powerful discipline for real progress in friendship with God. Listening […]
“For the Bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.”- Martin Luther As Jared Wilson continues Chapter 4 of The Imperfect Disciple, he focuses on the first of two vital spiritual rhythms in discipleship. That rhythm? – listening. Specifically, Jared means reading, or more technically, […]
“God owns all of life, and worshiping God means that we must revolve around him, not he us. So God shouldn’t be confined to his own compartment in our schedule. Jesus does not abide in his assigned time slot; we abide in him.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson continues Chapter 4 of The Imperfect Disciple […]
“But what if we approached these behaviors [the spiritual disciplines] less as religious duties — they are that obviously, but they are more than that — and more as relational delights?”- Jared C. Wilson “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have […]
“Stare at the glory of God until you see it.”- Ray Ortlund “Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have […]
“Every day when you encounter God . . . you face the choice of simply looking at Jesus or actually trying to see him (emphasis author’s).”- Jared C. Wilson As Jared Wilson continues Chapter 3 of The Imperfect Disciple, he advises not to “believe the portraits of Jesus you got in your sweet little Sunday […]
“Many Christians . . . struggle to behold Christ’s glory because they have a generally decreased capacity for bigness in the first place.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson continues Chapter 3 of The Imperfect Disciple as he discusses what we can do to help us behold better. First, we must overcome our preoccupation with small […]
“While you can look without beholding — you can look at Jesus and not really see him — you can’t behold without first looking.”- Jared C. Wilson “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world.”- John 1:29 In Chapter 3 (“Staring at the Glory until You See It”) of The […]
“I can rest in the fact that God is in control. Which means I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.”- Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued ” . . . but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The […]
“Every one of us knows the shame of guilty self-awareness and the fear of exposure. But we don’t want to life in the isolation of that darkness. We long for freeing relationships with others, especially God.”- Ray Ortlund “I will save the lame and gather the outcast, and I will change their shame into praise.”- […]