“Time and a newly tender brush with God created a safe place for me to see the layers within me.”- Sara Hagerty “For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”- 1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV) Sara Hagerty continues Chapter 1 of […]
“Yet even as we might naturally clamor to get out of these places, He [God] continues to use the unwelcomed, unbending circumstances to show us that He sees, He knows. . . . We feel like we’re waiting it out or merely enduring hardship, but, from God’s angle, these times are purposed.”- Sara Hagerty As […]
“Something inside of me knew there had to be more to my life with God than being productive and sharing the good news with others. Something inside of me craved the God I’d find when I wasn’t changing the world.”- Sara Hagerty In Chapter 1 (“Beautiful Waste: Opening Our Eyes to the Unseen”) of Unseen, […]
“What if we can find joy and affirmation in the hidden, the quiet, the mundane? Because that’s exactly where Jesus says it’s at. There’s holy in the mundane.”- Jeff and Alyssa Bethke Jeff and Alyssa Bethke (“Love That Lasts”) wrote the foreword to Sara Hagerty’s new book Unseen: The Gift of Being Hidden in a […]
“You boast in your constant inability to get your act together . . . by beholding a vision of the glorious Christ, whose power rests on you if you’re a believer.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 10 of The Imperfect Disciple as he notes the inadequacy of words to describe God’s glory. Consequently, […]
“To be swallowed up into his [Jesus’] glory defies all realms of imagination and glory.”- Jared C. Wilson “I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows. And I know that […]
“It is true that sometimes God doesn’t become our only hope until God becomes our only hope.”- Jared C. Wilson Jared Wilson concludes Chapter 9 of The Imperfect Disciple as he notes that grace goes all the way down to our deepest pain. In fact, Pastor Wilson posits that we’ve all prayed “I just want […]
“When it comes to our dependence on God, it is all grace or no grace. . . . it must be grace all the way down. We bring nothing to his relationship except our nothingness. . . . We bring our pit and he brings his rope.”- Jared C. Wilson “But he said to me, […]
“My availability to God’s call to sacrifice — Abraham’s availability to God’s call to sacrifice, your availability to God’s call to sacrifice — is predicated on the understanding that God doesn’t need any more messiahs. He sent one. The job is finished. We are not needed. I am not needed. Ah, but I’m wanted (emphasis […]
“Part of resting in the reality that your true self is hidden with Christ in God is looking at the true self you keep hiding inside yourself.”- Jared C. Wilson “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. . […]
“The saying is trustworthy, for: If we have died with him, we will also live with him, if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny him, he also will deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful – for he cannot deny himself.”- 2 Timothy 2:11-13 (NIV) “The MacDonald’s drive-through […]
“At its root, impatience is confusion about control. Impatience is the rotten fruit of self-sovereignty.”- Jared C. Wilson Today, Jared Wilson covers Nine Irrefutable Laws of Followship #4-6, as found in Chapter 7 of The Imperfect Disciple. 4. Be Ye Patient. Our impatience, Pastor Wilson states, grows from our belief that people and circumstances must […]