“God . . . made you to be you — and no human being in your life gets the final word on who God made you to be.”- John Ortberg As John Ortberg concludes Chapter 2 of The Me I Want to Be, he notes everyone in your life wants you to change. In addition, they […]
“Each of us has a me that we think we should be, which is at odds with the me that God made us to be. Sometimes letting go of that self may be a relief. Sometimes it will feel like death.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 2 (“The Me I Don’t Want to Be”), John Ortberg […]
Walking with God: How to Hear His Voice (Thomas Nelson- 2008, 2016) John Eldredge, director of Ransomed Heart, a ministry devoted to restoring men and women in the love of God, originally wrote Walking with God in 2008. He completed a revision in 2016. In the Introduction, John defines our deepest need as human beings […]
“Inside your soul there is a battle between a flourishing self — the person you were created to be — and a languishing self.”- John Ortberg As John Ortberg concludes Chapter 1 of The Me I Want to Be, he notes it’s humbling you can’t be anything you want. In humility, accept yourself as God’s […]
“You will always be you — a growing, healthy you or a languishing you — but God did not create you to be anybody else.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 1 (“Learn Why God Made You”) of The Me I Want to Be, John Ortberg notes that specific achievements or experiences fail to define life. Rather, […]
“A wise man once said that . . . the three laws of relationship are observation, observation, observation.”- John Ortberg “And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and […]
“Isn’t this our first reaction when life seems overwhelming — we start lightening the load, dumping cargo overboard so we don’t drown? The problem is, we can dump the wrong things overboard. We think nothing of tossing over joy while hanging on to the very things that overwhelm us.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes the […]
“God knows the danger of ignoring our hearts, and so he reawakens desire.”- John Eldredge As John Eldredge continues the Spring section of Walking with God, he notes our unmet longings keep presenting themselves in one way or another. However, John finds, from time to time God comes and actually stirs our longings and desires. […]
“There is no greater disaster for the human heart than this — to believe we have found life apart from God.”- John Eldredge “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ This is how it will […]
“Jesus is moving the whole question of genuine goodness from the external to the internal. He is taking us back to motive.”- John Eldredge John Eldredge concludes the Winter section of Walking with God as he returns to something very basic to our pursuit of God and the transformation He desires in our lives. We […]
“To come to Christ and realign yourself with him at the end of your day when you are utterly spent and don’t want to pray has a deeply sanctifying effect.”- John Eldredge In the Winter section of Walking with God, John Eldredge discusses the importance of bedtime prayers. Specifically, John presents four aspects of bedtime […]
“We do not worship language; we worship the living God, who assures us that his word to us is life (emphasis author’s).”- John Eldredge “The words I [Jesus] have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.”- John 6:63 As John Eldredge continues the Winter section of Walking with God, he advises that he […]