Today Bill Hybels discusses the first key (of five) to replenishing our souls. 1. Connecting with God. Pastor Hybels unequivocally states the single biggest bucket-filler in his life is being firmly hand-in-hand with God (emphasis author’s). Pastor Hybels adds that when he is really connected with God, he’s quicker to stay on God’s agenda and is […]
As Bill Hybels continues Chapter 1 of Simplify, he surmises you’ve been empty so long, you’ve forgotten what replenishes your bucket, what replenishes your soul. Pastor Hybels cautions, however, that before you can establish a plan for keeping your bucket filled, it’s vitally important that you understand why you’re so depleted in the first place. […]
In Chapter 1 of Simplify, Bill Hybels tells of the time a few years ago when he felt so depleted for months that his wife and kids suggested he spend time at the family cottage in Michigan- alone. God took the scales off Pastor Hybels’ eyes in a little grocery store in town when he […]
All the Places to Go (Tyndale, 2015) The full title of John Ortberg’s latest book is All the Places to Go . . . How Will You Know? God Has Placed before You an Open Door. What Will You Do? Pastor Ortberg describes an open door as the great adventure of life, because it signifies […]
“Simplified living requires more than just organizing your closets or cleaning out your desk drawer. It requires uncluttering your soul.”- Bill Hybels As Bill Hybels continues Chapter 1 of Simplify, he emphasizes we need to examine the core issues that lead us into frenzied living in order to stop doing the things that don’t matter […]
“When we fritter away our one and only life doing things that don’t really matter, we sacrifice the things that do matter.”- Bill Hybels Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul is the latest book by Bill Hybels, founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, IL. Pastor Hybels coaches and […]
“We don’t follow clarity. We follow God.”- John Ortberg “The nations will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their glory into it. Its gates will never be shut by day- and there will be no night there.”- Revelation 21:24-25 (NRSV) John Ortberg concludes Chapter 10 of All the Places […]
“Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul and with all your strength.”- Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “It’s not what’s on the other side of the door that gives me confidence to go through; it’s the one who goes with […]
“So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.”- Hebrews 12:13 Today John Ortberg looks at the second reason we’re tempted to give up searching for the door when the wall seems insurmountable. 2. God is not good enough. Pastor Ortberg states we become afraid God will […]
“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”- Hebrews 11:1 (ESV) “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal . . .”- Philippians 3:13-14 In Chapter 10 of All the Places to Go, John Ortberg states that “at the […]
Jesus said to her,, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.”- John 4:13-14 “No matter how much we try to run away from this thirst for the answer to life, for the meaning of life, the […]
“Many doors that look large to us are small to God, and many doors that look small to us are very large to him.”- John Ortberg Today John Ortberg concludes his discussion of four reasons why some doors remain closed to us (Chapter 9, All the Places to Go) 4. Doors remain closed because God […]