“Know that there’s a learning curve and give yourself a kind of grace.”- Lauren Ledbetter “Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.”- Zig Ziglar In Chapter 4 (“Always Learn”) of Fully and Creatively Alive, Tom Eggebrecht highlights the fact that people can’t ever afford to stop learning. For the moment you stop learning, you risk […]
“When you’re doing something you really like, you won’t be afraid to experiment and give things a try even if it means failure.”- Tom Eggebrecht Tom Eggebrecht writes in Chapter 3 (“Do What You Like”) of Fully and Creatively Alive that your passion about something makes others catch the fire as well. Consequently, create something because […]
“You’re one step away from coming home . . . One step away from arms wide open.”- Casting Crowns “How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord Almighty! My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of the Lord; my heart and flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a […]
“The sentences of life give you a fill-in-the-blank every now and then.”- Tom Eggebrecht In Chapter 2 (“God, the Creative”) of Fully and Completely Alive, Pastor Tom Eggebrecht reminds us that God built creativity right into us. As human beings, we’re the most intelligent, thoughtful, and emotional of God’s creation. Clothed with the colors of […]
” . . . being fully and creatively alive . . . means living out your total potential and doing it with uniqueness and flair.”- Tom Eggebrecht In the Introduction to Fully and Creatively Alive: How to Live a More Joyfully Fulfilling Life, Tom Eggebrecht sets forth his conviction that being fully and creatively alive […]
Chase the Lion (Multnomah Books, 2016) Mark Batterson, head pastor of National Community Church in Washington, DC, recently published Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn’t Scare You, It’s Too Small. Mark’s latest book serves as a sequel to In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. When one encounters a five-hundred-pound lion, […]
“God won’t put you in a position of leadership until you take a posture of servanthood.”- Mark Batterson In Chapters 19 (“The Thirteenth Virtue”) and 20 (“A Hundred Years from Now”) of Chase the Lion, Mark Batterson discusses servanthood germinating seeds of faith. The author notes that many of Scripture’s greatest leaders started out as […]
“There is a fine line between ‘Thy kingdom come’ and ‘my kingdom come.’ “- Mark Batterson “Anytime you see a turtle on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.”- Alex Haley Mark Batterson reminds us in Chapter 18 of Chase the Lion that God-given dreams focus primarily on others. Therefore, dreams […]
“If you want to dream bigger dreams, get around dreamers.”- Mark Batterson In Chapter 17 (“The Rabbit Room”) of Chase the Lion, Pastor Mark Batterson observes that getting where God wants us to go involves a partnership. Left to our own devices, we’ll fail to achieve our dreams. Somewhere along the way, we find ourselves […]
“We think what God does for us is for us, but it’s never just for us. . . . God is thinking nations and generations.”- Mark Batterson “The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off- for all whom the LOrd our God will call.”- Acts 2:39 Mark Batterson […]
“Faith isn’t linear Faith is exponential.”- Mark Batterson Mark Batterson begins Chapter 16 (“Chain Reactions”) of Chase the Lion by citing a research study on domino chain reaction. Published in 1983 by Lorne Whitehead, the unique significance of the study lays in the discovery that a domino possesses the capability of knocking over a domino […]
“Your destiny predates you. Before you were even conceived, God had a script for your life.”- Mark Batterson “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.”- Jeremiah 1:5 In Chapter 15 (“Double Destiny”) of Chase the Lion, author Mark Batterson writes that the prophet Jeremiah’s […]