“Jesus understood love as a God-powered condition of the heart and mind in which we will the good of everyone we meet.”- John Ortberg “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s people to grasp how side and long and high and deep is the […]
“Inside every child is an emotional tank waiting to be filled with love.”- Dr. Ross Campbell In Chapter 2 (“Let’s Get This Straight: What Intimacy Isn’t”) of I’d Like You More . . . , John Ortberg dispels eleven myths about intimacy. Since, John quips, God didn’t create people with intimacy gauges on their foreheads, […]
“What we see in Jesus is a presence that doesn’t place efficiency above intimacy. He was perfectly willing to accomplish his tasks more slowly if it meant being with his friends more deeply.”- John Ortberg John Ortberg concludes Chapter 1 of I’d Like You More . . . as he takes a look at some […]
“Time and presence. They are the stuff of shared experience. We can’t experience true intimacy without them. And there is no greater gift than we can give to those we love.”- John Ortberg As John Ortberg continues Chapter 1 of I’d Like You More . . . , he notes we must be fully present […]
“The basic building blocks of intimacy — whether with God or with other people — are the shared experiences that build meaningful connections.”- John Ortberg In Chapter 1 (“Are You With Me?”) of I’d Like You More . . . , Pastor John Ortberg makes an important observation about intimacy. Somehow, many people in our […]
“Intimacy has a fierceness that distance will never know. Inside every one of us is a hunger to be accepted, and it goes deeper than any other hunger.”- John Ortberg “Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share […]
“There’s just something deep in the human soul that says, ‘I need to have my place at the table.”- John Ortberg In the Introduction (“Table for One”) of I’d Like you More If You Were More Like Me, John Ortberg states when he thinks of love, he thinks of a table. Of Swedish descent, Pastor […]
“When I listen in hiddenness, God’s thoughts reveal themselves and become precious. My hearing, trained in that hiddenness, becomes attuned to the best kind of sound: my friend.”- Sara Hagerty “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!”- Psalm 139:17 (NKJV) Sara Hagerty concludes Chapter 13 […]
“Yet as human friends who understood this pain (barrenness) diminished, I found an understanding friend in God, the kind of friend who made me want deeper friendship. More reaching. I wanted to be a friend to God.”- Sara Hagerty “No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what His […]
“The ones who lean into hiddenness begin to see that conversation with God has more to do with a growing connectedness to His heart and less to do with getting the answer we want.”- Sara Hagerty Sara Hagerty concludes Chapter 12 of Unseen as she talks about what true growth in God requires. Ms. Hagerty […]
“I started talking to God when I was hidden and hungry, and found the key that unlocks the deepest joy of any life: secret prayer. Whispers with God.”- Sara Hagerty Sara Hagerty begins Chapter 12 (“Holy Whispers: Embracing the Mysteries of God”) of Unseen as she states her faith hinges upon prayer. Through the Holy […]
“When our wounds meet the Healer, we begin to live from new places of restoration instead of just working to avoid these old aches.”- Sara Hagerty “The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up […]